My Musical Misadventures Part 1

So last Thursday I went about getting ready for class in my usual way. I had just put on my coat and headphones when I noticed that sound was only coming out of the left side of said headphones. This is not an unfamiliar experience to me.. I have had the same thing happen before on a couple occasions. Usually this occurred when previous iPods were on their way out, and so I would just deal with it. In this case, the iPod was still relatively new and I was not looking forward to the prospect of replacing it. Given how many times this had happened in the past, I considered myself fairly knowledgeable. The running theory was that I must have plugged the headphone jack into the port wrong and accidentally damaged the connector.  I listened to it in its half-working state for the day and brought it with me to work as I normally do. However once I got to work I noticed that it had stopped making sound completely. This was very not cool. On my walk to work from the car I stopped by the Best Buy Mobile that I had bought it from and asked them if they knew of anything I could do to maybe fix it. They informed me that there was nothing that they could do, but if I were to bring it to an Apple store it could be taken care of as they have the tools for such things. Relieved at this news I went about my way and lived a very non-musical life for the next day. After class on Friday I had nothing going on, so I did as was suggested and took it to the Apple store in Oakbrook. They told me that there was nothing that they could do, but that there existed websites that could fix such things. Just on a hunch the guy tried his own headphones in my iPod and lo! The blasted thing worked! It turns out it was merely my headphones on the blink and not the iPod. In my defense, when this had happened previously with other iPods I tried other headphones, but to no avail. So they sold me some new headphones and I went on my way, bobbing my head to the music that was no longer exclusively in my head.