No other electronics store I enter will ever compare to the one Head Thing introduced me to the other night: Fry’s Electronics. O…M…F…G… Huge does not even begin to describe this place.
Upon entering the store I think I turned a few heads, not realizing how loud I was. As soon as we walked in there is a huge ass fish tank floor to ceiling. “Whoa, fish tank!” Yes, I actually squealed that in a high-pitched voice, I could have shot myself. As I approached, “whoa there’s a shark!” Still just as excited, but a little less nails on chalk board this time. As if I have never seen these things before, right! I’m easily entertained, what can I say, that, and I don’t get out much.
We spent what seemed like an eternity in that store. Who couldn’t though, it was amazing! After walking the majority of the store we went to go get in the check out line.
I shit you not when I tell you this store has 70, yes 70, freaking registers. Not a single one of them was open. No joke. The line grew to about 20 people before someone came up to the front of the line to let us know they were rounding up employees to come work the registers. Baffled. They put a neanderthal bigger than a bouncer at the exit to make sure you're not going anywhere without paying, but Gods forbid the store provide a way for the customers to pay...I feel like we're being set up for failure.
To my dismay, people just don’t get me, or they are uncultured. My spouse hands his card over to pay for the merchandise. The gentleman behind the counter gets the receipt and hands it to my hubby, “ok, I just need your John Hancock.”
Me and my constant movie referencing blurts out. “John Hancock, it’s not John Hancock…it’s Herbie Hancock.”
The dude looks at me as if I am wearing the helmet Head Thing promised to buy me, “Herbie Hancock?”
“Seriously, you can’t tell me you haven’t seen Tommy Boy, come on,” I rebuttal.
“Ahhhh, hahaha.” The realization hits him.
Yeah dude, if I have to explain it to you, its lost its luster. Better luck next time. <Fold my arms and pout, this blows, my joke lost in the sea of cluelessness.>
Hello "Mom",
ReplyDeleteI read through this article and found it contained so many things which I never even knew existed! For instance, I never knew there was any electronics store in this whole wide world which had its own fish tank...especially with a shark in it!! Where I come from, I have never seen anything such as this. I have seen minnows in a minnow bucket, but never anything so grand as a shark in an electical store tank!
Also, 70 registers? Wow! At our local Wal-Mart I think the most we have is 25! I can't even imagine an electric store bigger than our Wal-Mart, but you have proven to me one does exist! Also I thought your tale of the signatures and John Hancock vs. Herbie Hancock was sooo funny! In my part of the world, we don't have a John or a Herbie Hancock. The closest Hancock we have is Hancock Insurance, which is a good thing if you have a home or auto which you need covered.
I have seen TommyBoy, so I was just curious if I would be considered cultured or dis-cultured in your part of the world?? I try my best to be accepted and approved by others...what do you think?
Signed,
Wish-I-Were A. Hancock