Geoff buys the iPod!
So just over 7 months, and it all came down to this : Buying the damn thing.
And to be honest, it was a strange anticlimax. It was a miserable rainy day, I didn't seem that excited by the whole prospect, because I think I was a bit sad that it was all coming to an end.
But I'd roped in contributor Andy Young (#297) to being his DVD mini camcorder along to record the event, and off we drove to Kingston, to go shopping.
Sunday
June 20th 2004
So we go to Richer Sounds. With the precipitation reaching it's peak stage, Andy had to master the skill of recording me with his camcorder in one hand, whilst holding his umbrella in the other.
I should point out that those nice people in Richer Sounds actually give you a free umbrella if you make a purchase whilst it's raining, for which were most grateful!
This is what Richer Sounds, Kingston looks like from the outside on a dreary, rainy , Sunday afternoon!
The
staff were a little reluctant at first to decide who was going to be the
person to sell it to me, and everyone else behind the counter disappeared
whilst the one chosen man made the sale to me!
I should also point out that I didn't use the 50p's that I had collected to pay. Shock! Horror! Ok, I know I said I was going to do it, but there were a couple of reasons why I didn't.
i. It's actual not legal tender to use 50p pieces in transaction of more than £10 (Twenty 50p's). e.g. The shop could have legally refused to accept my money.
ii. In the end, I only had abou £160 worth of 50p's in' my collecting jar! And if I was going to do it, I wanted to at least attempt to do it with a full £250 worth. So in the end, I paid on credit card, and will just have to go down the bank and all the 50p's into my account. When I do that, I'll take some photos or perhaps try and video it again!
There's
a separate page though all about what I did with
all the 50p's that I collected though...
And
so I bought it, Andy filmed it, he rushed home, and very kindly edited
for me, and brought it back round to mine on DVD in a variety of formats,
and I uploaded it ...
>> Geoff buys the iPod <<
And this means of course that I can now give myself the 'iPod owner' icon.
