A Change of Pace

Since the outset, the purpose of this blog has been to entertain and update those of you who care enough to read. Even so, opportunity and necessity have arisen to do something out of the ordinary: give my thoughts on a product.

Now, I know I am not the most affluent consumer, but today I had to take action. My earbuds that I have used for the better part of two years were beginning to do that thing where unless you hold them just right, one or the other earbud stops working. 

Being familiar (and satisfied) with the SONY $29 price-point earbuds, I decided to go for the Sony Ear Buds (MDREX36V/BLK). Now these are comfortable and the sound is clear and deep....

Who Cares?

The reason I found it necessary to tell everyone about them is that they came in the best packaging for an electronic that I have ever seen! Even while at the checkout it seemed that these earbuds were in that impossible plastic shell that, I'm convinced, would be one of a few items to survive a nuclear holocaust, no less the pointiest of objects at my disposal. I knew that frustration awaited.

But wait!

There was a small band of tape around the top of the package. All I had to do was unwrap it and the earbuds and extra earpieces came out neatly.

KUDOS Sony!

Now I have wasted all of the time I had saved telling you.