The Fantastic Travels of Tom's Missing Earpod
Tom was walking down the street on the way to his breakfast place when he dropped his Airpod case. It landed closed, so he just picked it up.
(hmm, this sounds vaguely familiar.... :-)
And only noticed after he had his plate of scrambled eggs that the Airpod case was empty. The case had obviously opened up midair, threw up the two earbuds and then closed again.
Hashtag oh shit.
Tom raced back to the scene of the crash. He poked around on the sidewalk and discovered one (1) earbud.
These days, maybe unbeknownst to some, the Airpod Pro earbuds have little trackers in them so if you go on the iPhone and tag it as lost, you can see a map of where your earbud currently finds itself.
Immediately Tom snaps into action. He cannot come with Felice and I to the Hopper exhibit at the Whitney because his earbud is headed down 6th Avenue. He sprints over there, and then runs into Academy Music because it seems his earbud went into that building.
The guy at Academy Music said he hadn't seen anyone come in brandishing a single earbud, and he wasn't going to barge into an ongoing recording session to inquire, either. It occurred to Tom that the earbud may certainly be on the person of some miscreant musician, but it also might be in any of the apartments upstairs in the building.
It's hard to get a vertical feel on a horizontal map.
Tom comes home and with diligence that probably required a bulletin board with red string and photos and pushpins, he tracked his earbud around the city until it ran out of juice three days later in deep Queens:
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| Final resting place of Tom's AirPod Pro earbud |
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| Whoever has the earbud is kind of dick. They can't use it and anyone who walks by the earbud w/ an iPhone will get a message that pops up with Tom's contact information saying that the earbud is his. |
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| Tom's earbud is in this store. |
Tom's final comment on the matter: "I'm not going to go in that store and ask for it."
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