Comments | hannahchan: ...and this is how Amazon keeps getting my money.

hannahchan

...and this is how Amazon keeps getting my money.

Dec 20, 2006 15:11

My stepfather is hell to shop for. Every year, I wind up begging my mother for advice on what to get him. This year she suggested a Fats Waller CD. Okay, cool. So after the dinner last night, I swung by the Rec&Tape Traders on Charles. I walk in and go toward the back. A young saleswoman--probably a Hopkins student--asks what I'm looking for.

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wasabi_poptart December 20 2006, 20:48:20 UTC

you're too nice. I woulda said, Maybe check under W?

hannahchan December 20 2006, 21:05:58 UTC

There didn't seem much point. Though I did hum the Dead Milkmen's "Punk Rock Girl" to myself as I left.

daybook December 20 2006, 21:59:24 UTC

Oh come on. You really thought you'd find that at R&T?

hannahchan December 21 2006, 14:32:47 UTC

Hope spring eternal in the last-minute holiday shopper's heart.

greyplanet December 20 2006, 22:49:02 UTC

they don't have ANYTHING. it's not often, but when i find that i want a certain CD right now today, they never have what i'm looking for. it sucks, because i want to support the locals and all, but i always wind up coming back home and buying what i want from iTunes.

hannahchan December 21 2006, 14:33:34 UTC

They did have a bunch of Belle & Sebastian on sale. Heh.

ranger_hotsauce December 20 2006, 23:19:23 UTC

I think you felt the same way I felt when I called the bus station to inquire regarding the price of round-trip tickets to Chicago. After five minutes of not understanding why she was asking "where in Chicago?" I realized that the mental giant answering the phone thought that Chicago was a state. The mind boggles.

hannahchan December 21 2006, 14:34:40 UTC

Hee. One of my aunties, when I told her I was going to go to college in Minnesota, replied, "Oh, that's in Minneapolis, isn't it?"