“Don’t have one. Don’t really want one. Too distracting. Makes my ears itch.”
– Wendelle Peoples, Everett
“What is iPod?”
– Patrick O’Sullivan, Everett
“They’re a lot more socially polite than the owners of cars equipped with super-megawatt-unlicensed-thermonuclear car stereos that one finds in the next lane at a red light. Apparently some folks feel that they can’t truly appreciate their music unless everyone in a 60-yard radius is experiencing it too.”
– Douglas Moening, 52, Clearview
“IPod? I still haven’t finished reading the owners’ manual for my 8-track deck.”
– Jerry Stansfield, Everett
“My son kept bugging me to get him one, and while we were looking at them I decided to get one for myself too. Being a baby boomer, I just love old time rock and roll. I have spent lots of time downloading songs. With over 500 songs, the thing is still only half full. I plug it into my Harley, crank it up and cruise down the highway.”
– Howard Bono, Arlington
“As far as people ‘tuning out’ goes, I have no problem with folks doing that. Especially at work, some folks work better if they are listening to music, and an iPod allows them to listen to what they wish without other folks being forced to listen also.”
– James Nice, 53, Marysville
“For myself, it’s listening to audiobooks that is irresistible. No more wresting with dozens of audiotapes or CDs, changing them into and out of your player; just a single 2-inch-by-3-inch device with an easy on/off switch.”
– April Gavey, Everett
“I have absolutely no use for them. Of course, my age may have something to do with that. I’m 77, and am from a different generation of music, and I also find other methods of communicating much more satisfactory.”
– George Brown, Everett
“Although I am a regular at the Performing Arts Theater, the Everett Historic Theater, Civic Music at Civic Auditorium, The Everett Events Center, and occasional events at the PUD Auditorium, I do not know what an iPod is. I have never heard of one and would have thought it had something to do with the garden if you didn’t say it has musical connotations.”
– Elwin Anderson, 85, Everett
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