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I'm not the only muppet in the world or 'Why Apple Headphones are Ace'

So… There I was, feeling all proud of myself for having been organised enough to put my washing in the machine first thing in the morning (read: whilst I was still half asleep), so it would be ready to hang out when I got home from church. The sun was shining, I’d stopped off to buy a washing line in our friendly local supermarket, and I’d wrestled with it to put it up in the garden (with the invaluable help of one of my housemates!). All was well with the world, and as soon as I’d put this lot on the line, I was going to chill for a while in the garden, with a glass of OJ and my lunch.

Then… Disaster! As I was unloading the machine I thought – what muppet put some wire in here? and then I realised… that wasn’t just any wire – that was the wire that went to the headphones for my iPod! My iPod! Oh no!! (It’s ok – I knew that the Pod itself was safe and sound in my bag, but even so!) I was apparently that muppet.

I flapped them about a bit. Then I resigned myself to the fact that they were ruined. But, I thought, I may as well just stick them in the sun on the window sill and let them dry out totally.

So last night, I picked them up and tried them… pure perfect sound – all the treble and the bass and all the bits in between! They’re good as new, just as if nothing had happened to them! Yay Apple! Yay Me! Yay World! All is good again – I can go to the gym without fear of boring my brains out before I’ve finished 10 mins on the reclining bike! Hurrah for technology!

So I thought I should share this wonderful news with the world on this blog, and to make it a little more interesting I’d stick a picture of said headphones in.

(Here it is for those of you who are getting impatient!)

And… whilst I was looking at it, I spotted something else – I’m not the only one who’s ever washed their headphones! Read the second review here….

So… what I want to know now is… what have you washed that you really shouldn’t have – and I don’t mean a tissue, or your mum’s red sock, I mean you really shouldn’t have… Share with the world!