A Glitch

-- Norm Sunshine

After an enthusiastic recommendation from my wife, I began listening to the audiobook version of Frank McCourt’s  Teacher Man.

“I love it, but his writing style is so disjointed,” I complained. “He refers to characters I don’t know and introduces them a half hour later.”

My wife was as confused as I was, but I soldiered on, disoriented by the jumpy story line. It wasn’t until the end of the book that my dilemma was explained—I had set the iPod to Shuffle.

新玩艺儿太多了，我实在是跟不上形势。

呵呵，已经换了几代了，我还没用过iPod。

我就根本没用过。