Shopping Experiences

Ra · 10-28-2006, 12:50 AM

Okay, today I went shopping for the first time in months (3-4 months to be exact). You would think that a normal shopping trip would be fine. Well, it wasn't. First of all, I bought a caramel milkshake to drink while my mom was doing clothes shopping. I took one sip and I realized that it was vanilla. I didn't know it at the time, but it was a warning for things to come. No, really, it was.

Soon I found my favorite video game store and was looking for Kingdom Hearts 2 (Yeah, it's a new release here). It was $99, or $59 if you trade in 4 games for X-Box, Game Cube or PS2. That wasn't bad, but I did pre-order a Ninja Turtle game. "Mutant Melee", actually. I ask the guy at the counter if it was in. He looks it up on the computer. It turns out that it never came in, and I had to reorder it. Now, last time I had to wait about three weeks for it to come in. Now I have to wait ANOTHER three weeks to see if they actually got it in. This is the first time I've been disapointed with my favorite gaming store. Then I go into another store, Myers, to see what they had. The video game department is on the second floor. That's fine and all, but there is one problem - the escalators were out. And there were no stairs. That meant I had to take the elevator, which had about 20-30+ people in it. I had to stand next to a kid who kept on screaming his head off about chocolate ice cream. I has VERY close to throttling him before it came to my floor. And it turns out that there was nothing up there anyway.

There were also things that included trying to go to a store about five miles away, yet the store was closed, buying stuffed animals that were either too bad or too good of condition to use, finding no parking spaces, being hugged by a random in a bear costume, and the fact that I developed a throbbing headache from the entire day.

But here is my question to you - what are the worst shopping experiences you've had? Or the best? Come and relive the memories here. I want reasurance that I don't have the worst luck when it comes to shopping

10-28-2006, 12:50 AM	#1
Ra It's my desire? Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In your pants. Posts: 4,441	Shopping Experiences Okay, today I went shopping for the first time in months (3-4 months to be exact). You would think that a normal shopping trip would be fine. Well, it wasn't. First of all, I bought a caramel milkshake to drink while my mom was doing clothes shopping. I took one sip and I realized that it was vanilla. I didn't know it at the time, but it was a warning for things to come. No, really, it was. Soon I found my favorite video game store and was looking for Kingdom Hearts 2 (Yeah, it's a new release here). It was $99, or $59 if you trade in 4 games for X-Box, Game Cube or PS2. That wasn't bad, but I did pre-order a Ninja Turtle game. "Mutant Melee", actually. I ask the guy at the counter if it was in. He looks it up on the computer. It turns out that it never came in, and I had to reorder it. Now, last time I had to wait about three weeks for it to come in. Now I have to wait ANOTHER three weeks to see if they actually got it in. This is the first time I've been disapointed with my favorite gaming store. Then I go into another store, Myers, to see what they had. The video game department is on the second floor. That's fine and all, but there is one problem - the escalators were out. And there were no stairs. That meant I had to take the elevator, which had about 20-30+ people in it. I had to stand next to a kid who kept on screaming his head off about chocolate ice cream. I has VERY close to throttling him before it came to my floor. And it turns out that there was nothing up there anyway. There were also things that included trying to go to a store about five miles away, yet the store was closed, buying stuffed animals that were either too bad or too good of condition to use, finding no parking spaces, being hugged by a random in a bear costume, and the fact that I developed a throbbing headache from the entire day. But here is my question to you - what are the worst shopping experiences you've had? Or the best? Come and relive the memories here. I want reasurance that I don't have the worst luck when it comes to shopping __________________ "So. The whole lot of you against little old me? How retarded."