However, maybe by my simply receiving an iPod, I\'d expect to join this \"elite\" group and be exposed to this \"It\'s a JEEP thing, you wouldn\'t understand\" type of culture. Not so my friend, not so.
I don\'t see any other podders out there walking up to me, and \"jacking in\" with their phones to check out my tunes, nor have I approached anyone to do so. (Although I\'ve been tempted, but sincerely afraid to get my ass whipped my and iPod toting co-ed in front of everyone on State Street. There are no nods to fellow podders, no stopping and chit-chatting about each others devices, or talking about what hacks they\'ve applied or podcasts they\'ve tuned into. Nope, basically, I\'m still nobody, but now I am nobody with an iPod. (At least I can still get my groove thang happenin between the parking garage and the office). I *DO* feel somehow \"cooler\" with that thing in my hand versus my Archos Jukebox which weighs about a pound or more, and holds roughly 50 GB less than my sleek-all-white iPod. I have to agree with my buddy Sully on this one, there\'s just something about it that makes you feel \"cool\" even if you are a nerd.
Still some part of me is holding out hope for that one other iPod user that will one day just walk up and offer me his phone jack and restore hope that the podders of the world really are a clique thing and for once, maybe I get to be \"cool\"....prolly not...
