I sometimes go to the Best Buy at Union Square to play with the various different tablets. I’d like to have one of course but I can’t justify the cost for what I would use it for. I was playing with the iPad and this comic happened verbatim except for the wiseass remark. But this guy really tried to play off to his girlfriend that he didn’t have any interest in owning an iPad. I’m thinking his internal monologue was “It’s not that I want to own an iPad, it’s just that if I had one that would be totally awesome.”
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I like Best Buy at Union Square because it’s a good place to waste some time looking at display models of different things like iPads, android tablets and cameras. The last time I went it seemed like an inordinate number of display model alarms were going off every few minutes. Needless to say it was quite annoying for the small amount of time I was there. I can’t imagine how irritating it must be for the people working there.
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This strip would work better if my character was actually Asian like me. I think it’s far less likely for someone with that much facial hair to be mistaken to be 18 or under than someone like me. Still though, either this person was a bad judge of age or my Asian genes take more years off my age than I realized. It was weird because from the request for ID I just instantly was reaching for my wallet, and my brain didn’t process the absurdity of the situation until the guy was already holding it.
At a certain point I’ll reach an age where 18 and 21 will both seem equally distant from my current age but pretty much as soon as I started buying games with any sort of frequency I was long past 18.
Oh and incidentally, I’m 28.
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My girlfriend was out buying presents, but one item wasn’t in stock despite the website saying they had it. The woman behind her in line happened to be returning the very item she needed, so she just bought it off of her because the store apparently notifies people when an item is returned with a gift receipt?
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Circuit City used to have a public restroom, they had security devices there to make sure people didn’t take stuff into the bathroom with them. After a while though they closed their restroom to the public so this was the big question I had going into the new Best Buy. Sure enough, they made the restroom public again. That’s one more in the Union Square area. Make a note of it!
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I was trying to figure out yesterday if Best Buy or Radio Shack was more annoying. At Radio Shack you have people offering to help you out when they don’t know the store layout very well themselves. Plus you have the guys who try to sell you power strips $40 more expensive than what is really needed when you ask for a power strip. At Best Buy though you have the fake friendliness of being welcomed whenever you go to the store. Plus, the guy at the Houston and Broadway location is practically yelling his welcomes and also his goodbyes. Plus the checking the mile long receipt ordeal on the way out can be annoying too. Whatever, they’re both bad.
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Okay so Best Buy has been providing me with a lot of material lately. I was having a conversation at work about “The Crow” and then on an impulse went to Best Buy to get it because I really like that movie. Plus that’s one on my list of movies that I need to watch in black and white (yes, I’m THAT nerdy, but at least I have friends who are just as bad, I’ll talk more about this in a bit).
So I go to Best Buy and wonder of wonders it’s only $15, so while I’m there I also got the “Star Wars: Clone Wars” DVD (the animated show, I have yet to purchase any prequels) and “Myster Men” which was only $6. I’m liking this trend of me finally having money to buy DVDs and how they’re simultaneously becoming extraordinarily cheap. It’s weird when there’s stuff I actually want in the bargain bin.
So I get to the counter and first of all there’re two girls double teaming the one register, one moves them across the counter to de-magnetize them, then the other uses the laser gun to scan them. Excessive much? Then she asks me if I want the eight free issues of Entertainment Weekly or Sports Illustrated which of course I turned down. Then like they always do they asked for my phone number. It’s not a huge pain to reject them, but it’s kind of sad to think that there are people out there who probably think that they’re asking for their phone number for credit card authorization or something. These subscriptions and such must be a big way they make money since they undercut most of the surrounding businesses.
At least they didn’t go through the survey with me like they did the last two times
Oh, back to the film nerdy stuff. This happened around junior year of college. A friend of mine read that “Blade Runner” was originally conceived as a black and white movie, so we popped in the DVD and turned down the TV’s color and lo and behold it still looked amazing. So then we went to the DVDs we had and tried to find more movies that might look good in black and white. We ended up watching “Dark City” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” in black and white and they both looked awesome. All you need is good cinematography with lots of contrast and it’s a very interesting experience. The nerdiness knows no bounds does it???
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So there’s this new Best Buy that I decided to go to on the grand opening because I needed a camera battery. This is roughly equivalent to what I went through to get the battery. Basically it was like the opening of the Apple Store in terms of the number of employees there and the craziness. I mean, the Apple Store was blasting “Love Shack” and handing out free T-shirts on their opening day with maybe twenty people behind the genius bar. Okay, that’s an exaggeration, but the genius bar was definitely full.
I went with a friend to the Best Buy and we assumed that every person who had been hired at Best Buy was there for the opening day, but during normal days half of those people would actually be there. It seemed almost as if every single person was there with an assistant or two. They weren’t even so helpful. We were perusing the DVD section when the guy asked us what we were looking for. When we said “Family Guy” he just started perusing with us equally confused about where it was (we found it before he did). Then I think he offered to take it to the counter for us.
So I go upstairs to get my camera battery, the first guy I talk to hands it off to another guy and they keep on asking if I want the camera in addition to the battery. Clearly I had the camera with me, and I kept on saying that I just wanted the battery. Then on the way to the cabinet the second guy was asked by another person what we were looking for and the battery was handed off again. So then we have maybe three or four people looking for the battery. One guy finds one in the cabinet, then another comes from out of nowhere with a different battery. I settled on one and then we go to one of the mini-counters to checkout.
Meanwhile my friend was at a separate counter getting her DVDs, and when they said that she won a gift card there suddenly was all this hubbub about which gift card it was along with more confusion, people looking things up in the system and basically more stuff impeding us from getting out of there.
Finally we finished getting our stuff (complete with receipts longer than a boa constrictor). Every person is thanking us for coming in and telling us about some survey that we can enter online to enter for a $500 gift certificate.
Then when we get to the door the guy checking receipts looked at the name so he could say something like “Well Derek, thanks for coming to Best Buy and have a good day!” Then on the way out of the door is a statue/greeting person standing between the doorways just staring straight saying “THANK YOU FOR COMING SIR” as if I were the president leaving the Best Buy. He wasn’t even making eye contact. If they replaced him with a statue I wouldn’t have known the difference.
Scary.
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