On a long bus ride in Vietnam, a young guy next to me asked if we could share the headphones on my ipod. ‘Err, yeh’ I spluttered out, wondering if he would like my collection of early 90’s tunes and gingerly handed him the (L) earphone, cringing as he jammed the earpiece right up in his ear and wondering whether he had showered more recently than me, (we were both backpackers). We spent the bus ride in uncomfortable intimacy and not really hearing anything, and we both thought the volume was too loud.
If only there were a rest stop during the trip, I would have gotten off the bus and tried to find an audio splitter, like this one from Apple. Use it for watching a movie on your laptop during a flight, plug it in your iPhone and party line a friend, or listen to music comfortably with a strange backpacker you just met. Great value at $20, and you can even ask your friend to pay half!
Tags: Apple, backpackers, earphones, headphones, iPod, iPod headphone splitter
June 24th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Ick. That’s awkward. I’d make an excuse about saving my battery and just sit in silence instead.