Random Rantings

I know it's Sunday and only 1 o'clock but I have already noticed a few things worth ranting about.

• I was driving around and saw an old dude in wheelchair shoveling. WTF?
• I went to Sam's Club (always has a unique demographic on a Sunday morning), but I noticed that they sell gift cards there. Okay, but the weird thing is the pricing of them. The $25 gift cards for I-tunes, Olive Garden and place like that were $24.88. Woo-hoo, I save 12 cents. The $50 cards were $48.44, you save $1.56. However what was really weird was that their were these MasterCard $25 gift cards, which I am guessing worked just like a debit card, and they were being sold at $26.12. WTF? Why are they more expensive than the face value?
  
• Based on a suggestion from Edgrimley, I am currently downloading openoffice.org. It is suppossed to work just like Microsoft Word, but without the glitches and it is free. I will know in about 3 minutes when it is done downloading if it works. If that is some scheme for my rival blogger to once and for all finally take me down, there will be repurcussions. It says it can also open any word file and saves in a format that can be opened in Word. One thing that has been annoying me lately is that Word does not want to open any files that are not from that exact version of Word. It won't even open a file from a version of word from a year ago. I don't get it.
  

I should have gone to Target

I have ranted in the past about some of my experiences at large "super stores" like Target and Wal*Mart. In one particular visit to Target I said how much better Wal*Mart is than my visit to Target. That was an exaggeration. Wal*Mart may be the single worst business in the world to go to, it is a terrible experience. That is what I though until today......

I went to Sam's Club to get some supplies (rope, shovels, duct tape). I needed certain things in large quantity and wanted to use my tax exempt card. Sam's Club is very similar to what I think Hell will be like. There are people of all walks of life there. I even saw a family of four all there in shorts and wearing cowboy hats, its 27 degree outside. People buying enough canned goods to live through 4 nuclear attacks. Everything in the place is just chaotic, stuff on the floor, no order, and a small army of employess constantly saying, "Hi, can I help you?" "Yes, could these knives cut through bone?"

I get what I needed and go to check out and am standing in line and have 2 people in front of me. Then this old lady comes up and go right to the check out line and just checks out and doesn't wait in the line. The guy in the front of the line says something. Her response was "Oh, sorry, well I'm here now." Then she stays and checks out. WTF? If I were the cashier I would have said something, then again I love cursing out old ladies.

Never again Sam's Club.