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domino harvey wrote:If you have thirty minutes to kill, this thread is amazing.

I'm sorry, I'm getting an 'Asian-vibe' from your link. I don't think I'll be reading it.

I love how non-chalantly she admits she is crazy, and about 50 times.

Cabiria21 wrote:I'm sorry, I'm getting an 'Asian-vibe' from your link. I don't think I'll be reading it.

What the hell does THAT mean?

Michael Kerpan wrote:

Cabiria21 wrote:I'm sorry, I'm getting an 'Asian-vibe' from your link. I don't think I'll be reading it.

What the hell does THAT mean?

it's a joke. it's relevance is in the link.

That woman has somehow made me respect BestBuy.

"There was a thread a while back where sillymonkey made a comment about a grocery store that wouldnt take back some cheese that was a week old, while returning some tea.

That was a funny quote from the carnage...

Alonzo the Armless wrote:That woman has somehow made me respect BestBuy.

That's just what I was thinking. I occasionally think of my spending habits, buying DVDs when I have several swaths of discs I still have yet to watch, and I think, "Ah, I must be crazy... some kind of addicted film freak."

But then I read this and. Je-sus. Christ!

Returning TEN seasons of SG-1? Buying multiple copies of all new releases to distribute amongst friends before first-week pricing drops? Buying whatever's on sale because it's on sale? Buying those weird BB-exclusive packagings just because?

As someone who used to work behind the counter, this sounds like a customer service nightmare that they are describing from the WRONG ANGLE. I was, as sillymonkey says, "flabgasted" that he/she wouldn't recognize the truths being told to her by the store. I'm glad some of the DVD Talk people had the common sense to point this out.

domino harvey wrote:If you have thirty minutes to kill, this thread is amazing.

Amazing for sure, but also fairly soul-crushing and depressing. $15k a year on arbitrary crap - and that's just at Best Buy? And all the time spent returning/exchanging/scouring for price-matching deals, etc... I'm afraid to ask what kind of savings (if any) she has, or if it all just goes towards the latest who-gives-a-fuck BB exclusive tin.

Definitely. The idea that this person was shocked and offended at being banned from the store shows how out of touch with reality s/he is. Spending $15K (minimum!) at Best Buy a year? That could be money used on psychiatric therapy and antipsychotic meds.

I bet photos of "my DVD collection" from her Photobucket account could crash your browser.

I'm not suprised the BB manager thought she was reselling stuff because that's the first thing that came to my mind.

Nope, apparently just crazy. I agree that it's soul crushing; I wish I had $15k a year to spend on movies (at 1/15 that, I still wonder if I spend too much), but the sheer tedium required in ad scouring, price matching, returning et al... when the hell do you actually have time to watch the movies? (Then again, that may be besides the point, as watching would require opening the seal on the case and then, oh, nevermind...)

If you're in the mood for another Best Buy story, this one can't be beat.

sillymonkey oughta get a netflix or blockbuster.com subscription. She embodies rampant consumerism, and is probably a recurring character in George Bush's wet-dreams.

Until January 20, "our president" must be written in lower case.

tavernier wrote:Until January 20, "our president" must be written in lower case.

...and "our" must always be enclosed in quotation marks, if it is to be used at all.

Apologies. Point taken, and fixed. (I hate the fucker with the heat of a thousand suns, so it's not like I was harboring a secret respect for the man.)

domino harvey wrote:If you're in the mood for another Best Buy story, this one can't be beat.

Where do these people come from? It reminds me how I need to occasionally keep tabs on the DVD Talk crazies. The things I love about this story, similar to the other one, is how reasonable the BB decision seems, especially as a former customer service dude. Who the hell reaches for a ballpoint pen in someone's pocket without asking? I see some fat, angry dork suddenly grabbing at my pocket protector, what am I supposed to think?

These stories are all a hilarious byproduct of the combination of too lofty expectations, based on the modern conveniences offered by online shopping and retail chain stores, and good ol' fashioned misanthropic inability to understand basic human logic.

I can't take it anymore. Can someone please, please correct the title of this thread?!? It's nearly as bad as a thread entitled "Hilarious Mispellings!".

EDIT: Someone kindly informed me that the thread title was an old, inside joke, so...

DOUBLE EDIT: I now notice that 'rediculous' actually appears in quotes - intended as ironic commentary, I presume - thus making my criticism that of a total 'looser'.

What kind of person ever acts the way these dolts do? Seriously. It's people like this that make my case for putting humans to sleep.

CSM126 wrote:What kind of person ever acts the way these dolts do? Seriously. It's people like this that make my case for putting humans to sleep.

I worked customer service (in a grocery store) while I was in college, and my experience was that although the real nutjobs make up a small percentage of the population, there's no shortage. It was pretty bad in a supermarket b/c everybody has to eat sometime, and there were about five or six absolute "dolts" who came in at least twice a week to make our lives miserable.

Stay out of the service industry, kids!!!!

All Feng bashing will now be conducted here.

Between that and the Bensonsworld thread, today's forum viewing has been a study in awkward encounters.

domino harvey wrote:If you're in the mood for another Best Buy story, this one can't be beat.

I read that one since it started. I can't believe that sillymonkey was actually looking for some sympathy from fellow forum members.

I just saw these negative reviewsat Amazon.com for No Country For Old Men. These reviews make baby Jesus cry.

sillymonkey just posted about how she also returned q-tips to a grocery store

domino harvey wrote:sillymonkey just posted about how she also returned q-tips to a grocery store

used?

dx23 wrote:

domino harvey wrote:sillymonkey just posted about how she also returned q-tips to a grocery store

used?

They scratched her poor sensitive ears, you see.