Oddly enough we found ourselves becoming as much part of the holiday traffic and store rushing as the rest of the world!
And no, we were not looking for or shopping for holiday gifts, since our lists of whom we shop for is quite short, so we do it in an amazingly quick amount of time!
I won’t go into the details but most know exactly why I said what I said if they at all read this nightly.
There was a time that nothing gave me more joy than shopping for our loved ones and their loved ones or friends or extended family members, business associates etc… but in time and in many ways things can change, and for everything, perhaps there is a reason or a season…fa, la, la, la, la, la, la…
But I digress… today was for a totally utilitarian reason, us proud to be non-cable-satellite subscriber peeps had pixeling appearing on all the TV’s channels except for one, all last night and this morning. Hubby first checked all the connections to and from the antenna and the converter boxes what-have-you and all was right, except not really since we still had the problem, hmm? And so as Hubby called around to all the Geeks and all those know-it-all-peeps the consensus was that our antenna, that looks like a dish but is not, was falling down on the job and after only seven years, it was needing to be replaced, boo hoo and REALLY BIG OH POO!
Well, it saved us a fortune for its initial cost was one hundred dollars with no monthly bills, costing us a mere $14.29 a year for our TV viewing; what a deal, hmm?
And so when we felt we had no other choice we went out today amongst the tired and weary-worn from all that shopping till you’re dropping, you know those beings, why you might be one of them… with not too much cheer in their over worked ears and fears of not getting their listed items done and found which took out most of the fun and can’t remember why it was supposed be in the first place, hmm…?
We tried where we bought the one we had, Radio Shack, and they said they had but one and gave us a very nice price of only ninety dollars, it had gone down in price but Hubby felt he wanted to see if perhaps another store, Best Buy, could do better and so we went there and theirs was more by ten whole bucks and so we went back to the other store and the salesman said he was setting up another persons phone and that Hubby’s wait would be half an hour but Hubby was exhausted and short tempered and wanted to leave to try their other stores about a fifteen minutes drive either way but I said than we might as well wait here and not waste the gas, and I even said that I wanted to go into that store that had a lidded glass bowl for a possible terrarium, Tuesday Morning,… so Hubby got my scooter out and he shortly came to get me since the only one the store, RS, had, had missing brackets but their other store at the mall had some and so we went all the way back up there!
I’m getting dizzy; are you too?
Oddly enough all the same brackets were missing from the ones the store had and so you got that right, I bet you know what we did…hmm?
YES, we went back to Best Buy and bought that one!
While in Tuesday Morning which I had to wait for someone to let me in and since Hubby was in Radio Shack and I was alone on my own how freeing, except when you cannot get into the store you wish to shop in!
Any-who, a man was going in and how he did not notice me, is beyond me and so I blatantly asked him to allow me to get in there too, since he had the door open and was going to leave me there with my scooter and all!
He did open the door.
And I promptly told the one and only saleswoman about the ADA and she gave me the toll free phone number for their corporate office to tell them.
Moving on… she guestimated the proximity of where the glass jars were and she was off by a few isles but I found the one I wanted, and of course on the top shelf… and so I drove up to the front and noticed that she was checking out all her customer’s purchases and I said that when she was done that I would need her help.
But just then that is when Hubby arrived with his news of us going to the mall and so he got it down and took it to her and we paid and were on our way!
I knew I would need some gravel too for my project and so I suggested stopping at a pet store but Hubby was afraid he would run out of light to put the antenna up and so we shelved that idea for then… And I told you what happened at the mall and Best Buy just so happens to be right next door to Michaels Crafts and I said let me out while you go into Best Buy I will check to see if they have some gravel… and they didn’t, but they had moss and chopped sea shells that were within my mental budget for the project, we already had the potting soil and plants and so I got what I needed and Hubby again arrived to help with my purchases and this time he succeeded too for he carried by a box handle the new antenna for our viewing pleasure!
Now this last part is going to sound perhaps mystical or odd or just plain weird… but when we arrived home the computer was not on, and I had left it on, and I needed it to enter our buying spree items, and so I turned it back on, but weirder than all of that was the fact that when Hubby turned on the TV all the CHANNELS were working just fine again!
The antenna at Best Buy, long as we keep the receipt can still within thirty days return it, Radio Shack the time limit was only ten…and so as you can well imagine we are baffled by this anomaly of who knows what but happy too! Perhaps, we will be able to get that refund or not… who knows…all we can do is wait and see…
On that snippet view of our not so bland boring lives… allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?
Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
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