Marcel Winatschek

The Reset

Yesterday after watching The O.C. (double episode) I was lying in bed wanting to listen to an album on my iPod. Hit play. Nothing happened. Checked if I’d hit the hold button like an idiot, but no. Tried every combination of buttons. My iPod was just dead.

I was already thinking about packing it up to send to Apple when I remembered these old magazines in my drawer—”iPod Love” and iPod Special—and pulled them out. There was a reset procedure in one of them: hold the menu and select buttons until the Apple logo appears. Sometimes you have to do it multiple times.

Tried it. Once, twice, three times. Nothing. Then it happened. The logo lit up and the iPod kind of gasped and immediately started playing Lolita Strawberry in Summer. I’d actually saved it. Not going to pretend that wasn’t a good feeling.