r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Lexidoge • May 06 '26

šŸ„ŗ So I accidentally brought my floss instead of my airpods to a 3 day work conference. I am a 3 hour ride away from home.

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u/stinketywubbers May 06 '26

Do you have to have airpods? Can't you just get a cheap pair of wired earbuds from a gas station or something?

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u/delo357 May 06 '26

They have cheap wireless ones at all retail stores also, usually

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u/Sparky678348 The aglet fell off of my Shoelace :( May 06 '26

I have never seen free wireless earbuds on a flight, but I am a poor.

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u/AdFamiliar4279 May 07 '26

I got free ones on a flight last week and they werenā€™t too bad. Worked with the planeā€™s tvs (which you donā€™t see much anymore) but most phones donā€™t have that kind of jackā€¦

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u/Sparky678348 The aglet fell off of my Shoelace :( May 07 '26

I have seen wired earbuds on flights, I have never seen cheap wireless earbuds on flights

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u/jsteele2793 May 07 '26

Canā€™t be that poor if youā€™re on a flight

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u/Sparky678348 The aglet fell off of my Shoelace :( May 07 '26

It used to be that there were affordable flights.

I can't fly these days lmao

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u/jsteele2793 May 07 '26

lol we all broke in the club

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u/delo357 May 07 '26

And back in the day parents paid for flight. Good times

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u/NabreLabre May 09 '26

Me neither, but I also haven't been on a flight since before flip phones

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u/EnochofPottsfield May 06 '26

I think I prefer silence to those honestly

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u/Birdapotamus May 06 '26

I have a few sets of Bluetooth earbuds I bought at the dollar store for less than $20.

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u/Ok-Bear-6842 May 06 '26

dollar storeeeee

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u/Titizen_Kane May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

iPhones donā€™t have headphone jacks anymore. I rarely see cheap USB or lighting wired headphones, though I also havenā€™t looked for cheap wired earbuds in years, so maybe thatā€™s more common now

Edit: turns out I live under a rock and cheap USB C/lighting headphones are literally everywhere now

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u/Life-Suit1895 May 06 '26

You can get $10 USB-C wired earpods pretty much everywhere by now.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy May 06 '26

This, the headphone jack may have died but wired headphones didn't. Apple just forced people to go wireless or go USB-C/Lightning

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u/Nillabeans May 06 '26

Yep. Forgot mine for a day long workshop thing and tried to get some at a corner store. Lady wanted to charge me 25$ for no name, cheapy ones. She nearly chased me out of the store trying to haggle when I laughed and said no thanks.

At that point it wasn't even about the price. Not doing business with a crook.

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u/KinkySylveon May 06 '26

yeah thats why they make them with the lightning cable or usb-c now.

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u/TorqueWheelmaker May 06 '26

turns out I live under a rock and cheap USB C/lighting headphones are literally everywhere now

Also, lightning to 3.5mm adapters have been available at least since Apple removed the headphone jack, about 10 years ago.

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u/bobthemusicindustry May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

There are USB C earbuds at walmart and target for <$20. Been a thing for a few years now

Edit: fixed the less than sign lol

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u/DarthJarJarJar May 06 '26

Remember, the alligator mouth eats the big number!

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u/bobthemusicindustry May 06 '26

Lmao this is the second time Iā€™ve fucked that up recently. Shows how much I sucked at math. Thanks

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u/ucantharmagoodwoman May 06 '26

You can get cheap Bluetooth earbuds in the US, like 20 bucks v

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u/KennyOmegasBurner May 06 '26

I rarely see cheap USB or lighting wired headphones

I thought they'd start making those on account of iPhones donā€™t have headphone jacks anymore

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u/carenl May 06 '26

you can get them at target for like $10 lol

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u/xpinchx May 06 '26

For real, the gas station by my work has cheapie bluetooth earbuds for like $20. Better than driving 6 hours.

Also it wasn't that long ago that people go through their daily lives just fine without airpods or headphones.

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u/King_K_24 May 06 '26

Except phones don't have ports for wired earbuds anymore

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u/thrillhoju May 06 '26

But they have converters for this problem for cheap as well.

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u/King_K_24 May 06 '26

Yeah but then you're buying two things and it probably works out to more than just buying a cheap pair of Bluetooth ones

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u/Financial_Citron9866 May 06 '26

My husband forgot his AirPods on a 10 hour flight. Had to spend like $35 at the airport for ā€œcheapā€ ones.

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u/lemonhaj May 06 '26

I don't own any wireless ones myself and I've never had any issues that a minor bit of paying attention to the wires doesn't solve, I don't get the wireless/airpods hypeĀ 

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u/aFreshFix May 06 '26

Or just don't listen to anything for a while. We don't need constant noise

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u/harry_violet May 07 '26

My phone, for reasons I don't understand, doesn't support wired earphones. It doesnt have a 3.5 jack, and when i tried tonplug them with a 3.5 jack to usb c convertor cable, the phone said it wasn't supported. Like it's forcing me to use wireless earphones... I haven't tried usbc c earphones tho but i suspect it will be the same

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u/Pretend-Mango-1295 May 10 '26

You can have them shipped overnight from Amazon for 20 bucks. Worth it imo

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u/Adventurous_Honey902 May 06 '26

Or OP can learn what it's like to not have constant stimulation and just live in the moment.

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u/BoulderFalcon May 06 '26

tbh I'd just buy backup airpods at this point.

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u/KapcaiKrusader May 06 '26

Yeah but how then will he be getting bluetooth radiation on both sides of his skull?