As I was getting ready to go home from work, I reach into my pocket to grab it and the damn thing has somehow managed to break open in there. A small piece remains in my hand while the rest falls to the floor and scatters. Great. So I spend about 20 minutes piecing it back together, tape it up, and start it. It starts at the last song I left it at, as usual, but this is halfway through the playlist and I want to start back at the beginning. Ok, no problem, go into the menu and switch directories so it goes back to the first song. Except it doesn't. That mysteriously stopped doing anything a while ago.

Maybe I'll try switching to FM radio and back. Nope! That just froze it right up. So after about 20 minutes of fucking around, being royally pissed off, and hitting Back over and over and over and over again, I get to the beginning. Then I notice the battery is almost dead. Oh no no no, I see what you're up to. The battery will die halfway through the song and then when I put in a new one, it'll be back to the one it was at before because it only saves that when properly shut off. Nice try. I'll shut it off right now so it saves and then turn it back on.

Haha, no, TFE. It turns back on, sure, but has randomly decided not to save anything when I turned it off. >: I managed to figure out a trick to skip through the songs faster, so another 5 minutes of standing there cycling through them AGAIN.

Finally, when I'm nearly home, the song ends, so I figure I'll just shut it off, no sense listening to half a song for the short walk remaining. Nope. Now it won't shut off. Fine, up yours, out comes the battery.

I don't know what got into the dumb thing, but it's now confined to the closet for an undetermined amount of time for treason. >:

Maybe some of these problems are a result of falling on the floor, but why the hell did it randomly split open in the first place? Also, it was being dumb before that, with the directory switch not working for example.

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