I'm in love...

So, new short Best Buy post for everyone here.

I was up at customer service helping a customer who had ordered a laptop from another store when a coworker came up to the register next to me... I notice then that the customer he was helping was a typical college co-ed blonde type with a tight baby tee, tight jeans and a black thong (trust me, it was noticeable). Knowing the coworker, I assumed he was excited about having a customer like this and I'm sure we'd bring it up later.

A minute or so later, I was done helping my customer and was able to actually look up. She wasn't really really hot... but just in that sorta skanky way. And then I noticed that her Baseball cap was pulled down over her eyes was black and said "Vu." And then I noticed a bright green lanyard that said Deja Vu.

It wasn't that she was attractive. Or even had an amazing body or anything like that... it was just the fact that I knew if I went down the street I "could" see her naked. The very VERY best part of all?

She paid $400 in all small bills.

Pic here.

So I owe you a post...

How about this for a Rob post:
I hate customers.
How's that?

No seriously. People, it's the holidays. Every where you go is going to be crazy. Be nice to the people who don't get paid enough at retail stores. Here's a guy that I don't know who made a post that I would love to have made myself. Its about standing up for retail people/waiters when they've got unreasonable customers being bastards. The guy in his post talks about how the phrase "The customer is always right" has lead to the downfall of civility in America... and I agree. I had a guy patronize me at work today and I silently wished him to die in a fire.

What? Don't tell me that's too harsh. There's a special place in hell for people who are unnecessarily rude to employees. I was just hoping to give him a bit of a warm up for the rest of his eternity. Basically he complained to a manager because I didn't readily know how to ring up his $3 off coupon for his Superman Returns movie. Lets get this straight, I was helping to check out people because I was being nice. And he was a tool.

My other awesome conversation went like this on a phone.

Me: Best Buy Computers, this is Rob, how may I help you?
Her: Yeah, I bought a computer/printer package yesterday...
Me: Ok.
Her: Yeah and I didn't get my remote control.
Me: Remote control for what ma'am?
Her: My printer.
Me: There's no remote control for that printer...
Her: THEN WHY is there a picture of one here.
Me: Ma'am, none of our printers come with remote controls.
Her: If there's "NO remote" control, WHAT exactly am I looking at?
Me: . . .
Her: . . .
Me: . . .
Her: HELLO?!?!?
Me: Wait, are you serious? Ma'am I don't have the slightest idea what you're looking at right now...
Her: Fine. You know what? Let me talk to that Geek Squad.
Me: Sure thing. [Transfers the crazy lady to be someone else's problem]

Maybe she's just new to this whole telephone thing. Maybe she thought I was like Miss Cleo. Maybe she's freshly ridden the White Pony.... I don't know.



But this made my day. Ro and I came back from the store to find this jackass parked like... (You know this one Scott...) like an idiot. So we let the world know how we felt.

Its Christmas Time!!!

We put up the tree!!
Which pretty much means
I took it out of my closet
and out of the bag...

Political Science

Randy Newman was just one The Colbert Report (7 min segment here). I looked into it just a minute and found out the song I thought he may have written just for The Colbert Report was actually quite old... So without further ado, Randy Newman circa 1972.

There are actually rules???

So I stumbled across this on Digg and thought... "seriously?"

www.shotgunguide.com gives you a compiled list of rules for calling shotgun when going to a car. I would like to draw attention to the details that are laid out for the rules of shotgun. Ro will be glad to see there is even a Special Needs clause:

This inspired me to look up a few other car rules such as Padiddle, and Kiss the Ceiling. I was never a big one for Padiddle, but Kristy Cunningham and Liz Brown taught me Kiss the Ceiling when I was a Sophomore in High School... Rewards I've always heard for kissing the ceiling was "10 minutes good luck," "10 minutes better sex," and "a good luck avoiding a ticket." Oh, and I almost forgot about Punch Buggy (aka Slug Bug).

Finally for your time wasting pleasure...
Swords and Sandals: Gladiator Game!

Top 20

So Breyn was nice enough to give me inspiration to post. She IM'd me a suggestion of a topic and I thought it was a wonderful idea. So here it is...

Top 20 Reasons Why Breyn is Awesome!
1. She has a great dane, and it is huge.
2. She introduced me to ITI (my druggie summer camp).
3. Uhhh... she helped me with pranks at ISU.
4. Ummmmm...
5. She's the only person named Breyn I know.....
6. ....

Dammit, that was a HORRIBLE idea!

So things that have happened since my last post:
I rearranged my furniture and got all new movie posters: framed, covering my living room. In no particular order I've got Swingers, Army of Darkness, Kill Bill, The Crow, Equilibrium, V for Vendetta, and The Boondock Saints. (I was going to link all of them, but lets face it... Scott's probably the only person who would click the links, and he can look it up himself.) So that and framing some of my photography work makes my apartment look pretty nice.

My printer (year and a half old) junked out on me. It was starting to print lines in the pictures, so I cashed in on my service plan and got a brand new printer out of it... Service plans on printers and mp3 players are a must.

Speaking of work, we're hiring some new people for the seasonal rush. If anyone wants a job, say I refered you and I get $100. A guy that I knew from Model Illinois Government just started at The Buy, so that was exciting.

Speaking of politics, we're still in a crappy war... so that hasn't changed... BUT apparently NAMBLA has had a drastic increase in numbers that hasn't been seen since the great Catholic Revival of 2002. Yeah... so that happened...



Oh, and to end on a SUPER happy note. In about 2 weeks, Ro will be student teaching in Springfield for the remainder of the semester. Let me say this again, for the first time in our more than 2 year relationship, WE WILL BE IN THE SAME TOWN!!!!

That's Awesome. I love her.