Shopping Adventures . . . or how I lost another 20 minutes Ill never get back So, Best Buy has this really cool reserve online, pick up in store thing going, so being the tech geek that I am, I think this is pretty awesome . . . order your electronic gizmos and gadgets, walk in, walk out, slightly quicker than a four tire NASCAR pit stop . . . Im in. So I order my gizmo for store pick up, 20 minutes later my return email comes telling me its a deal, gizmo ready for pickup and I have 24 hours to wander in, pick it up and stroll out . . . the only way this would be better would be if they just gave it to me for free . . . In I go, straight to the Reserve Order Desk for my gizmo . . . greeted by a rather startled looking young lady who immediately asks how she can help, though I thought that was fairly obvious since we were both at the reserve order desk. I give my last name, Irving, and spell it . . .she types Ervin. I give my first name Randy, she types Branlee . . . I make a mental note to resume my speech therapy sessions . . . Off she trots to fetch my gizmo . . . 5 minutes later, she emerges from the back room to confirm my name, and what gizmo I desire, has a brief consultation with her accomplice, who looks like he has single handedly developed every gizmo in the place, and both retire to the backroom to search for my missing bit. Another 5 minutes spent shuffling around . . . both suspects return, to ask me my name, and why the hell I am here . . . and did I actually get a confirmation email. I dutifully produced my email . . . Mr. Peabody, gizmo guy just sort of lost interest and wandered out to the store, and the startled young lady, who it seems distrusted my reason for causing her all this trouble, whipped back into the back room with renewed vigor to find my gizmo . . . only to return once more empty handed. Says she, I cant explain why its not back here sir, did you want me to just get one off of the shelf for you? ! ! ! ! ! ! See, this is when I always expect the reality host to jump out from the back room laughin his ass off . . .
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 01:19:54 +0000