Hee hee... I just bought myself a new toy. A DVD/VCR combo thingamajig. It's really cool. Except, when I got home to plug it into my tv and reconfirm my couch (though I'd be watching it from bed) potato life style, I discover to my dismay... the tv's so old it doesn't have the ports for the cables.
So I ventured out to radio shack, believing against all proof they will have an adapter for me.
The conversation with the oh so helpful Radio Shack guy goes something like this:
Me: Hi, I need an adapter thingy for my tv, so I can hook up my new DVD/VCR.
Ben (RSG): Uh... how old is your tv?
Me: Dunno. It's not mine. But it doesn't have audio/videoplug in sockets, so I need an adapter.
Ben: What's the model?
Me: Uh, tv or new thing? Cause I have no clue on the tv. VCR thingy is a Sony.
Ben: And they aren't connecting? Are you sure it doesn't have the holes (very technical fellow, Ben) for the connection?
Me: Positive. *Getting rather annoyed* SO, do you have adapters?
Ben: I don't think so... I can look though. FOr a TV - VCR connection? Or DVD?
Me: Both. But I only need one, one adapter. Because they are one machine.
Ben: Ohhhh... I thought you had like two machines connectin to the TV. Let me look.
Me: *Waiting, watching Ben make a cursory inspection of the walls I just looked over*
Ben: No, doesn't look like we have those. Sorry.
Me: *Already walking out the door.*
And, in closing... since I was booted off the internet and contiue to type... five hours later.
Radio Shack # 2, where Mike proves he does not learn.
Mike: Hi... I need an adapter for a TV to DVD/VCR adapter.
Woman who speaks minimal english: Wha kine?
Mike: Dunno. Tv's about five, maybe seven years old, doesn't have the
Woman: DvD?
Mike: Uh yes, with a VHS. I need an ad
Woman: Know wha wan. DvD vido lin.
Mike: Um... Well, I thin
Woman: Sta here. Be righ back.
*Mike waits patiently, glancing at things he might need in case woman has no clue. Woman returns from back with much larger box than Mike anticipated for what he was envisioning*
Woman: Okay. Anytin else?
*Mike holds out hand*
Mike: Lemme make sur
Woman: Is wha you wan, anytin else?
*Mike eyes picture on box which has like ten ports, doohickeys and colors, but it reads 'DvD Adaptor', shrugs*
Mike: I guess... I'm gonna need some cable, to connect it to the tv.
Woman: Tree fee, or ten?
Mike: Uh, three is fine.
Woman: Okay. Total nine sixseven.
*Mike hands over twenty, woman stares oddly at Mike, who is clueless believing all a stupid adapter with minimal cable should cost is ten bucks.*
Woman: Tree nine sixseven. Is Tweny nine for box.
*Mike blinks, and only by nerve memory does his arm/hand find his wallet retrieve second twenty dollar bill, and hand it over*
Woman: Treety day return. Okay?
Mike: *Nods numbly, and finds himself in a theater next he knows watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, no t knowing how he arrived there.*
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