Sometimes I feel lucky to even get through a new album without being interrupted.
Like, I just want to listen to the new Jorja Smith, why is my phone cutting the songs halfway through for no reason?
And yet, despite all our woes and issues, this grandma has apparently had her iPod on shuffle for ‘over 10 years’.
In a TikTok, Sydney Utendahl shows her grandma’s rather dusty-looking device, sat in a charging dock on a, also pretty dusty, speaker.
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The viral video’s caption reads: “She’s 90 years old.”
Sydney says in the video: “So I just told my grandma that her iPod was playing and she told me to not touch it.”
The old school iPod, complete with actual buttons (those were the days), seems to be playing music quietly.
“She doesn’t know how to pause it or anything,” the granddaughter claims as she explains that her grandma ‘just turns the volume up and down’.
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It’s basically like this woman has a constant radio stream in her home that she just tunes in and out of with the volume buttons on her speaker.
When Sydney asked her how long her iPod has been playing music like this, she claims that her grandma said it’s been playing on shuffle ‘for over 10 years’.
“This has to be some sort of Guinness -,” she’s interrupted as she approaches the iPod with caution.
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“I’m like scared to touch it, I feel like it’s not gonna work anymore if I take it out of the dock or pause it.
“But this has to be some sort of world record. This is insane.”
As the iPod is in the dock, it’s likely to constantly be on full charge, which allows it to keep playing music without losing any battery.
But a whole decade of this seems like a wildly long, long time.
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And users joked in the comments they need her ‘Spotify wrapped’ to see just how much music has been played.
Others commented that the iPod ‘looks so tired’ and is the ‘hardest working iPod in the game’.
Another joked: “It’s been unsynced so long it doesn’t even have the U2 album on there.”
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While some pointed out the grandma essentially ‘created a radio’, with one writing: “It’s basically a radio! Smart lady.”
And plenty of users share Sydney’s fear of disturbing the veteran iPod as they write: “I almost fainted when you TOUCHED IT.”
Another also echoed: “I shouted at my phone ‘don’t touch it’! When you touched it.”
Jess Battison