Last Legs

I use my iPod a lot.  Pretty much every day.  Sometimes all day.  It gets shoved in my pockets or my bag, the earphones cord wrapped around it, and pulled out and put back and pulled out again.  Those earphones take the brunt of the beating.  Today, sadly, I think my current pair are on their last legs. 

They always short out there, at the point where the bendy bit is.  Now I can only get one side (the left) to have sound consistently.  To get anything out of the right side, I have to hold the cord in precisely the right spot.  Which changes sometimes even as I hold it.  I'm sad.  Now I have to find a new pair of perfect earphones.  That's no easy quest. 

Oh well.