It’s not THAT great…

Posted by beth on January 4, 2010

Ok, I know I promised you the story of the worst Best Buy salesman ever, and I intend to deliver that to you. I’m just going to warn you that it’s not that great. Much like any solo music made by a Jackson who was not Michael or Janet. Here we go.

The only TV I remember my dad watching in the 80s was Miami Vice. He probably watched other things, but I don’t remember them. Just the Miami Vice, which is funny because my dad never wore pastel shirts under white suit jackets with the sleeves rolled up. Although, that would have been funny too.

Anyhoe, I thought I heard something somewhere about Miami Vice coming out on DVD, and I thought that would make a great Christmas present for him, so L-Josh and I went to Best Buy to find it. We didn’t see it in the TV shows section, but we thought it worthwhile to ask an employee. We found him one section over, so he led us back to the section we’d just come from, and then we had the following conversation:

Him: (Looking at the TV show DVDs) No, it doesn’t look like we have it, but I’ll tell you where you can get it.
Me: (Thinking he’s going to say on their website or at Target or something that makes sense to humans) Oh great! Where’s that?
Him: (In all seriousness) Do you have a Hulu membership? You can just download it.
Me: You can? I thought you could just watch it on there.
Him: Oh no, you can download it.
Me: What, and then burn it onto a disc?
Him: Exactly.
Me: (Not quite believing that he has just suggested I give my dad a bootleg copy of Miami Vice for Christmas) Ummm…
Him: ORRR…if you’ve got a laptop, you can just hook it up to the TV and stream the video and just WATCH IT ON THE TV!
Me: Oh my gosh. Umm…well ok, thanks (for nothin’). I’ll think about (how awful) it (is).

Ok. The biggest problem with this is that the salesman didn’t try to sell me anything. He didn’t say, “You could download them and burn them onto discs, and over here’s where we keep the blank discs. These expensive ones are the best kind. And you can make your own labels for them with this software here.” And he didn’t say, “Or you could hook up the laptop to the TV, and if you don’t have a laptop, WE DO! And here are the cords you’ll need to hook everything up.”

No, no. He suggested that I give my dad a set of pirated Christmas DVDs or perhaps just hook up my laptop to my dad’s TV and SHOW HIM Miami Vice. Just once. And then take it away. Awesome Christmas present. Thanks, Best Buy Guy.