To me, it's beside the point whether it's reasonable for the cartoon character portrayed in this blog post to return his expensive trinket. Reason went out the window when the thing was purchased in the first place. At any rate, it's not like we're talking about a real person here.

If something breaks for a full minute every time you touch it, that gets really frustrating, even if you have no problem at all with a minute of silence.

But more importantly, the original goalpost was having music at all, during the entire exercise session. Exercise can feel perfectly 'right' while also being plenty boring if you're running in utter silence for an hour.

And I don't know. This might be a real person being jokey about their legitimate issues with the device, or some kind of parody that shows someone overreacting to... legitimate issues with the device.