annoyed at Best Buy

So, I'm in Best Buy, having successfully naviagted the maze of a queing system to reach the checkout, and the fun begins.

The cashier first asks me if I have a reward zone or best buy card. I tell her no.
She then asks if I want to sign up for either Entertainment weekly or Sports Illustrated. I tell her no.

Then she attempts to teach me how to use the debit card swipe tool. I seem to do okay on my own.

Then she asks for my phone number. I tell her no.

There was something else she wanted to know from me, but by this point I was so annoyed that I couldn't form new memories. Whatever it was, I told her no.

All I wanted from that tranaction was to pay for my purchases and get on with my life. This whole suggestive sales / marketing thing is really getting on my nerves. Let's break it down.

1. If I had a best buy card or a rewards zone - wouldn't I have that out already? The lititure for these things is plastered all over the store - it's not like I could miss it.

2. Magazine subscriptions - you know, it would be a differnt story if I was purchasing a single copy of one of these magazines. Then, an offer for a subscription would make sense. Nothing I was buying was sports related and I might think that Entertainment Weekly is a rip off with pretty pictures and little content.

3. Debit card? Who doesn't know how to handle a debit card? And, Hello? - the directions are right on the screen.

4. Phone number. You know, I don't care if it's for market research or telemarketing - you are not getting my phone number unless it's essential for the transaction. I'm not in Best Buy as an inviation to be bothered, I'm there to get some stuff and get gone.

5. She wasn't paying attention to me - or she would have noticed that the insessant questions were annoying me. I'm less than 2 feet away from her and she's talking to me - but also essentialy ignoring me.

Where's the friendly banter? Where's the meaningless discussion of the weather? Where's the human being that's suppose to assist me with my purchase?

All I had was a suggestive sales drone who was determined to get through her pre-programmed list of questions.

One of the movies I bought was a sequal - maybe mention that the orgianal just went down in price too. One of the games I got was really cheap - maybe mention that the Greatest Hits section of PS2 games had recently expanded. Maybe tell me that Entertainment Weekly had a great review of the other movie I got - that it was worth the price tag.

I think the next drone that launches in with their questions is going to get a slightly terse response from me regarding suggestive sales. Thank goodness I wasn't buying a big ticket appliacne - I might still be there enduring their warrenty and extended warrenty plans at exaustive length.

---Holy shit. I just got a spam from Best Buy wanting me to sign up for a reward zone cared. Coincidence, I'm sure, but still deeply annoying. And a little creepy.

In other news - I had a dream last night that I was in a car accident, but that the paper reported it the next day with someone elses name - and that that person had died. I was trying to get to the bottom of the mystery - as the Scooby Gang would say - and took time out to coodinate the suggogate birth of a human from a kangaroo. Apparently, it was an emergency situation and the kangroo had gotten away. I was apparently in change of the situation and we decided on a c-section. I was trying to keep the kangaroo calm when I realized it was having the human baby by natural birth. So, we skipped the c-section and let the kangaroon do the work. The baby was tiny - though still massive by kangaroo standards - and the dream ended with us not being sure if the child would live.

The kangaroo seemed fine though.

Well, that's it for now - back to work...