Lighten up edco, you can't take jokes in your retirement? If you can't control your kids, then rewire the outlet(s) of choice and make them pay for it and/or do the work.Maybe your due for a replacement battery as X5Dawg said. When I first hardwired my radar detector into my 7, I did it quickly before a roadtrip and found the first 12V I could find and didn't realize it wasn't switched till I shut the car off. I left it that way for probably a month w/o issues until one night the beeping from the radar detector caused the alarm to go off at work...im assuming a cop drove by. Since then I used a multimeter and rewired it, quick and easy. Such a little item as an iPod shouldn't be killing your battery after a few days.

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