Dear Diary: Today I Went to Best Buy

Gus went shopping today at Best Buy and decided to write us. It’s not a rant, not necessarily a complaint and probably won’t make you a better person.

However, it does serve as a sort of amusing little first-person experiential piece, conveying mood (agitating) and mind frame (confused, disgruntled) as he navigates through a poorly designed bazaar of computer fun before making his escape to a better store.

Enter the head of a consumer, after the jump…

Guse writes:

“With a rather slow work day at hand, I decided to venture to my local Best Buy on my lunch break. My possible purchases included the new Pearl Jam CD and a 100 stack of CD-R’s. As I approached the door, I remembered my utter disdain for this place. I was immediately greeted with a hello from the “all powerful door man” and noticed that the store was much busier than the parking lot indicated.

As I browsed for the computer media aisle, I could not find it. I did however see a row of DVD-R and CD-R spindles in between the shelves displaying their current line of computer monitors. Of course the 18″ section of CD-Rs was blocked by a Blue Shirt jockey and an interested customer (god help him). As I browsed a little deeper I found my aisle, only to be disappointed in their selection of 100 stack CD-Rs. 2 choices of Verbatim and Memorex at 36.99$ was definitely not to my liking. On my way out of the isle, an elderly couple were being helped by another jockey. They were inquiring about memory cards for a digital camera. Jockey grabs a card, and I loosely quote, “256, that will get you about 50 pictures.” The elderly gentleman wholly agreed that that was plenty and I shook my head and excused myself past in search of that CD.

On my way to the CD section I noticed that if they packed anymore stuff into this place I might have to loose some weight before I can expect to walk around in here again. It’s like Wal Mart at 2am. I see a few CD’s, all priced the same, not too bad, as should be expected. Then some crap pop rock comes on the loudspeaker and suddenly I realize I’m about 5 minutes from doing business with these fucks. Is it really worth an extra 10$ to have the art/booklet rather than using my favorite Russian website? Absolutely not.

As I zagged my way though customers to reach the exit, my worst nightmare came true, I couldn’t leave. The exit was blocked by 4 patrons with carts waiting to have their merch checked by my old pal at the door. I slithered my way out to my car and hit the road, with no purchases in hand. Another victory for me, and another 100 stack CD-R sale for Office Max. (24$!)

Love your site, despise the Best Buy. But somehow they get me in there about 2 times a year, usually weak moments.

-Guse”