Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Buying a Conspiracy

So I’ve concocted a crazy conspiracy (yay for alliteration, btw) and I need to share. I highly suspect that the good (or maybe not so good) people at Best Buy have laid a trap for me, which I’ve walked right into. Okay so follow me here…First of all, my computer suddenly stopping being able to connect to the internet and this required me to get a new computer. Now never mind that it was six and half years old and was on its last legs…don’t let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory. Anyway, so I had my credit card maxed out, as it’s been one of those financial years, and so I opened up a Best Buy card if for no other reason than I knew I could get one interest free for 18 months. Plus since computers aren’t overly expensive right now I was fine enough with it. So no worries, right? Nope…

So this is the part when the story gets interesting…a few days later some horrible people broke onto our house and on top of getting away with three laptops also swiped my fairly expensive camera. So since photography has become quite the interest of mine I “had” to find a replacement so since I *already* had a BB card, I trudged my way back for an expensively similar replacement.

Now we get to last week and after turning the TV on and after fiddling about I discovered that the tube is in the process of going totally south on us. Other than needing to get up and slap the side of it every once in awhile, it’s still working but it’s on its last now. So the other night Christina and I went…yep…to Best Buy and I put an ungodly amount on the card for a 42” HD LCD TV. I think we thought that since the cost will be split we might as well get something good. So that happened the other night and we’ll be upgrading to HD DirecTV service as well as do the wall install…and just in time for hoops season so yay me. I can see my horrible basketball team in high clarity.

So this all, obviously, points to one thing; the best Buy team has been tracking me for awhile and has now sprung their trap. I mean it’s the only explanation. How else can one account for all these devices either going down unexpectedly or being stolen all around the same time? Oh and of course it was The Geek Squad who took the laptops and camera because, after all, they have those really cool cars which make for ideal escape cars. It’s all coming together. I will say that they’re really sneaky about coving up their tracks so, for now, I’ll have to sit on the sideline…and make my monthly minimum payments.

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