I broke 4 pair of the V-Moda Duo Earbuds. This post is not a product review.

Rather, I posted this experience as comments to the Apple Phone Show blog. My comments reflected my sad experience. They bordered harsh. That tone still strikes me as fair and appropriate. The responses to my comments echoed back my tone. Understandably and appropriately so.

Scott Bourne, the Apple Phone Show host, responded:

Tom you keep leaving this comment every time we mention these earphones. And it’s completely contrary to our experience. Since you continue to leave this comment over and over, I have to ask, do you by chance work for a competitor to Vibe?

My point is a writer’s point. Tone is infectious. My words are my own, but the reader’s reaction is his. My post tacitly said “you’re misleading people.” That’s what was heard even if it was never expressly said.

It’s never what you say, it’s always what is heard.

Back to the review. I wrote as a pissy customer, not as an informed reviewer. Pissyness almost always highjacks calm discussion. Perhaps that reason is why so many business meetings fail, and why I am routinely employed.

I enjoyed being the pissy one for a change.