April 10, 2013

• A HUGE CONGRATS TO THE WARRIORS FOR REACHING!!!
  

   
  The Daily News

  1   A huge shout out to the Bay Area's best Golden State Warriors for a hard-fought season and for making the Bay Area a mecca for sports' gold! Now go out there and make believers out of all of us!

  
  

  2   Moving on, Part the First: So I was over at Best Buy yesterday returning a computer that can't seem to deal with Windows 8. What a shock.

  
  

  3   I decided to be civil, even though the changes going on in Computerland are coming at us at atomic levels.

  
  

  4   To their credit, Best Buy treated me with class.

  
  

  5   I expect no less, but if a brand new laptop is not doing things, one worries.

  
  

  6   AnywayZ...

  
  

  7   The previous night I was ready to throw all of this stuff under the bus. I couldn't figure out how to turn on the power button. I'm usually pretty good at this stuff, but for some reason I couldn't figure out how to navigate even the easiest chores. I almost went ballistic. Well, I DID go a trifle ballistic, but not enough to color my reputation as a calm and sensitive person. <basketball buzzer. Warriors win.>

  
  

  8   I decided instead to visit Best Buy in calm mode.

  
  

  9   Calmly, that is.

  
  

  10  They actually took good care of me, and I am crossing my fingers that my new laptop is in good hands and that Best Buy will have my back. I left it in their hands.
  

  
  

  11   It's all good, right?

  
  

  12   <basketball buzzer again> That's just a worry buzzer borne of years of stuff never going the way I want it to go.
  

  
  

  13   AnywayZ, while waiting for the Best Buy Geek Squad to save me and my computer, an interesting argument ensued. I was sitting on one of those garage stools that the Geek Squad provides for geeks.
  

  
  

  14   Some guy next to me who had purchased a pair of headphones seemed really mad. Angry bird.
  

  
  

  15   I tried to remain open-minded.

  
  

  16   We're at customer service, right?

  
  

  17   This guy had a pair of smashed headphones that clearly had nothing to do with Best Buy.

  
  

  18   They were smashed to smithereens.

  
  

  19  One ear thingy had been crushed as though a trailer park had rolled over them.

  
  

  20   It was clear to my that someone had crushed  the headphones with a car. They had tire marks on them.
  

  
  

  21   I swear to you.

  
  

  22   Homeboy was demolished. Take my word. The entire thing was flattened and ridiculously not working. One side of the headphones had flattened and separated.
  

  
  

  23   The customer demanded that it was Best Buy's fault.

  
  

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  25   Okay.

  26   I was just chillin' waiting for them to repair my laptop.

  27   I tried to ignore the drama unfolding, but you know how you get.

  28   I heard polite conversations like, "We can get a manager for you if you would like."

  29   There were actually TWO guys trying to get Best Buy to pay for the damage that was clearly their own doing. I was astonished. I'm pretty certain that the guy who didn't buy the thing was doing all the talking. 

  30   My own situation was that the laptop I had purchased wasn't delivering. Best Buy needed to resolve that. It made sense. They cleaned it out and fixed it for me at no cost. I pick it up this afternoon. Done. Meanwhile...

  31   These guys came in with a set of fancy headphones that had been run over by every car in the Indy 500. Clearly not Best Buy's fault, but they felt entitled, to coin a 2013 phrase.

  32   This brought out the gossipy stuff in me.

  33   I just remained silent and shook my head, only metaphorically.

  35   I try not to judge, I swear to you.

  

  36   But at around 5 p.m. this entire store was treating these morons like they were emperors.

  37   I finally left, knowing that my laptop was in good hands, but in hands that were being delayed by morons.

  38   Morons who were going somehow to get their way.

  39   Ironically, I taught the word "allegory" yesterday.

  40   I then walked into one.

  41   Sign of the times, I swear to you.
  
  42   Moving on, Part the Second I got home late, eventually put on the ball game, and watched the Giants go a bit south.

  43   The nice thing was I have this new chair that I have named the Cloud. I have never had my own comfy chair, but when we redesigned the living room last summer, it needed something.

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  45  So last night after a rather hectic but productive Tuesday, I got home from Best Buy and sank into the Cloud. I had a cold Crystal Light and a spoonful of Nutella to steady the nerves.

  46  In the middle of the game I drifted off, and didn't care. If you are a Giants' fan, you understand that one.

  47   I didn't even know that they somehow won until I was into the early four a.m.'s

  48   Pure bliss, at least from this Old Brown Shoe.

  49   The verdict is still out on Timmeh, but yeesh. He has those innings...

  50   He recovered.

  51   You can't pay guys millions of dollars for being in recovery though.

  52   I'll stop short of saying any more. It's Wednesday and I just want to get this one over.

  53   Congrats again to the Warriors and all their loyal fans. Fun stuff.

  54   And I hope homeboy is enjoying the new headphones he stole from Best Buy.

  55   They'll live. I just hope my new laptop will be ready this afternoon.

  56   Gottago.

  57   See you again.

  58   Peace.

  ~H~

  

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