This is how See Jane Run by Joy Fielding begins:

One afternoon in late spring, Jane Whittaker went to the store for some milk and some eggs and forgot who she was.

Today (an afternoon in mid-spring), I went to the store for some milk and some eggs (and other stuff) and my iPod forgot who it was.

Or, more precisely, it seemed to forget all that stuff that was supposed to be stored in its memory, namely, my songs. In the middle of a song, out of the blue, it just locked up. I reset it, but after it cycled, it didn’t return to the main menu. Instead, a little file icon appeared along with some icons indicating some confusion on iPod’s part (which I can certainly understand; I was confused too). Thankfully, when iPod and I returned home, syncing him with iTunes restored iPod’s memory, though it remains to be seen whether iPod actually *lost* all his memory, or if he just couldn’t figure out how to access it.

I guess I should be grateful that it only happened while I was at the store, and not while I was in the first hour of a long road trip.