I decided to quit smoking yesterday afternoon. This morning, I get up and realize that I can't have my morning smoke and become instantly miserable. So I decide to go shopping to lift my spirits.
I go to Major Electronics Retailer. I'll try to keep this brief:
I need CD to cassette adapter. Sold adapter. Suckered into service plan. Leave store, go to car, try out adapter. Doesn't work. Go back to store. They tweak it somehow, tell me to try again. Still doesn't work. Go back to store. Given different adapter, same model. Still doesn't work. Go back to store for fourth time.
Getting angry now that I have to run back and forth between store and parking lot in blistering heat. Am told that the problem is not adapter, but is my car's cassette player. Inform them that my old, much cheaper adapter works great in my car, this is just a second adapter for my husband's vehicle.
Finally, I am sold another, more expensive adapter. Charged the difference in price, plus told that the service plan is $5 more on this adapter because its a different model. I tell them to take the service plan off the bill entirely. Am forced to listen to service plan sales pitch again; respond with icy glare. Leave with exorbitantly priced adapter, no service plan.
BLOODY THING STILL DOESN'T WORK.
Go back to store, toss on counter and glare at salespeople. No words are exchanged. I am quietly refunded my money and I leave.
Can't go home empty-handed, I figure, so buy a pack of smokes, have one. Sanity restored. Realize at this point that maybe I should have been a bit nicer to clerks, not their fault that Major Electronics Retailer sells overpriced crap.
I'll try again tomorrow. Quitting smoking, I mean. I don't want to see another adapter again for a long time.
I go to Major Electronics Retailer. I'll try to keep this brief:
I need CD to cassette adapter. Sold adapter. Suckered into service plan. Leave store, go to car, try out adapter. Doesn't work. Go back to store. They tweak it somehow, tell me to try again. Still doesn't work. Go back to store. Given different adapter, same model. Still doesn't work. Go back to store for fourth time.
Getting angry now that I have to run back and forth between store and parking lot in blistering heat. Am told that the problem is not adapter, but is my car's cassette player. Inform them that my old, much cheaper adapter works great in my car, this is just a second adapter for my husband's vehicle.
Finally, I am sold another, more expensive adapter. Charged the difference in price, plus told that the service plan is $5 more on this adapter because its a different model. I tell them to take the service plan off the bill entirely. Am forced to listen to service plan sales pitch again; respond with icy glare. Leave with exorbitantly priced adapter, no service plan.
BLOODY THING STILL DOESN'T WORK.
Go back to store, toss on counter and glare at salespeople. No words are exchanged. I am quietly refunded my money and I leave.
Can't go home empty-handed, I figure, so buy a pack of smokes, have one. Sanity restored. Realize at this point that maybe I should have been a bit nicer to clerks, not their fault that Major Electronics Retailer sells overpriced crap.
I'll try again tomorrow. Quitting smoking, I mean. I don't want to see another adapter again for a long time.
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