Monday, January 10, 2005
Sometimes you have to mess with them...
Harken back to a fine yesterday where the early evening was to be spent shopping. A $30 CompUSA giftcard burning it's way through my wallet, a bluetooth mouse on my mind. I had in line an IOgear mini mouse, as I seem to like how crampy my hand feels.
Out to the CompUSA on Touhy Ave to buy I go. Straight to the Apple section, as I like to oreint myself there. 3 off-duty employees are crowded around an iBook using it to rip tracks off of a CD to make a compilation, trying hard to stare me down to go away. Eventually I do, and make it over to the mouse section and look at the 2 bluetooth mice they are offering, a Microsoft one (no out of principle) & a Logitech one that looks way too complicated for me (must've been around 17 buttons on that sucker). I grab an IOgear mini off of a rack and head off in search of help.
One of the off duties runs up and takes out the employee I was going to ask, where they start shooting the shit and don't even look up at me.
I spy another guy unpacking a box and start asking him questions. Questions whose answers need more than the "no" he kept saying. "No they don't or no you don't carry it?" were my responses. So I give up on him, as I was made to feel I was obviously bothering him, and my $100 mouse purchase seemed to be beyond the scope of any employees there.
I got a little upset. I wandered back over to the iBook that was now left idle and noticed that the CD burning in iTunes would finish soon. So I waited around and when it finished, I yanked the CD and deleted the tracks out of iTunes.
I blatantly made it look like I was shoplifting the CD and then hid it in the stacks.
I was hoping for a confrontation so I could go ballistic, made myself super shifty looking and braced myself for the ordeal ahead.
I left the store and nothing happened.
Harken back to a fine yesterday where the early evening was to be spent shopping. A $30 CompUSA giftcard burning it's way through my wallet, a bluetooth mouse on my mind. I had in line an IOgear mini mouse, as I seem to like how crampy my hand feels.
Out to the CompUSA on Touhy Ave to buy I go. Straight to the Apple section, as I like to oreint myself there. 3 off-duty employees are crowded around an iBook using it to rip tracks off of a CD to make a compilation, trying hard to stare me down to go away. Eventually I do, and make it over to the mouse section and look at the 2 bluetooth mice they are offering, a Microsoft one (no out of principle) & a Logitech one that looks way too complicated for me (must've been around 17 buttons on that sucker). I grab an IOgear mini off of a rack and head off in search of help.
One of the off duties runs up and takes out the employee I was going to ask, where they start shooting the shit and don't even look up at me.
I spy another guy unpacking a box and start asking him questions. Questions whose answers need more than the "no" he kept saying. "No they don't or no you don't carry it?" were my responses. So I give up on him, as I was made to feel I was obviously bothering him, and my $100 mouse purchase seemed to be beyond the scope of any employees there.
I got a little upset. I wandered back over to the iBook that was now left idle and noticed that the CD burning in iTunes would finish soon. So I waited around and when it finished, I yanked the CD and deleted the tracks out of iTunes.
I blatantly made it look like I was shoplifting the CD and then hid it in the stacks.
I was hoping for a confrontation so I could go ballistic, made myself super shifty looking and braced myself for the ordeal ahead.
I left the store and nothing happened.
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