I went to Best Buy today intending to use a few gift cards I received for Christmas. In the past, I could walk around BB and find half a dozen things I wouldn’t mind taking home. These days however, all I ever seem to do is walk around the store.
Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, but I just see a lot of their merchandise as garbage in five years. The store is basically centered on the latest technology and technology is usually outdated within a month from purchase, right?
Looking for something to buy was a challenge, but the characters I met were well worth it. I asked one of their “associates” about a sound card that I could plug my keyboard into.
“Well what kind of keyboard are you looking to plug into it?” he asked.
“What do you mean?”
“Like, one for typing or one for music?”
Why in the hell would I want to plug a “typing” keyboard into a SOUND card? The guy was also playing with his 3G, wi-fi, whatever the hell they call it, phone half the time I was talking with him.
So after a long search, I found a video game and a DVD – a combined value of $40. I went to one of the random new checkouts in the middle of the store and the cashier was lost in his own computer world.
“Excuse me?” I asked. No answer, so I tried again.
“Hi, can I check out here?” Still no answer, so I stood there until he was done.
“Hi, can I help you?” he finally asked.
He charged me $9,999.99 for the game and DVD. Long story short, I should have stood in the winding line at the front of the store because by the time he figured it all out and successfully read my gift cards, I would have been out of the store and on my way home.
I hate shopping!
