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This evening I was doing basic errands and dropped by BestBuy to pick up a memory card for my camera. The BestBuy clerk that helped me obviously had a set "thing" to promote and sort of let it unwind as he scanned my item.
"Would you like to open a BestBuy credit card?"
"...No. ...Thank you."
"Really? Its really fast, and who couldn't use another credit card?" (At this point this young man (teenagers!) smiled winningly, but had the under thread of joking in his voice.)
"Me. I don't need another credit card. ...Thanks, though."
"Isn't that what you are supposed to do? For credit? Open up a bunch of credit cards all at once?"
o.O "Um. No. Really really not."
We had a whole conversation about how *BAD* that advice was, and I found myself leaving him with this last thought "Kid, take it from someone who is twice as old as you. That is a bad bad bad idea."
How the HELL did I get to be this old? That I am TWICE as OLD as the BestBuy clerk? Likely I am MORE than double his age - he didn't look older than about fifteen, so it was entirely likely he was actually about eighteen.
Then I went to my parent's house so my dad could set my laptop up on his wireless. He's got it rigged up with major security levels (which okay, one, he lives in a fairly RURAL area. I doubt they wouldn't actually SEE anyone trying to steal their bandwidth, because it isn't like the wireless actually covers the whole house! Someone would have to be sitting AT their front door to be able to use it, be on the system AND have the password.
Anyway, I went over to do that so when they go away on Wednesday I can work from their house Wednesday and Thursday as I house/dog sit. Then when I go away on Friday my brother will come get Max for the weekend (of course this supposes he knows and remembers the codes to get into the house (there are two - one for the garage and one for the house itself)). Oy! Such drama. All so Max won't be alone overnight.
Bonus is that I can do laundry in their machines on Wednesday and Thursday so I can pack for my road trip.
I can't wait! The kites are already in the car.
"Would you like to open a BestBuy credit card?"
"...No. ...Thank you."
"Really? Its really fast, and who couldn't use another credit card?" (At this point this young man (teenagers!) smiled winningly, but had the under thread of joking in his voice.)
"Me. I don't need another credit card. ...Thanks, though."
"Isn't that what you are supposed to do? For credit? Open up a bunch of credit cards all at once?"
o.O "Um. No. Really really not."
We had a whole conversation about how *BAD* that advice was, and I found myself leaving him with this last thought "Kid, take it from someone who is twice as old as you. That is a bad bad bad idea."
How the HELL did I get to be this old? That I am TWICE as OLD as the BestBuy clerk? Likely I am MORE than double his age - he didn't look older than about fifteen, so it was entirely likely he was actually about eighteen.
Then I went to my parent's house so my dad could set my laptop up on his wireless. He's got it rigged up with major security levels (which okay, one, he lives in a fairly RURAL area. I doubt they wouldn't actually SEE anyone trying to steal their bandwidth, because it isn't like the wireless actually covers the whole house! Someone would have to be sitting AT their front door to be able to use it, be on the system AND have the password.
Anyway, I went over to do that so when they go away on Wednesday I can work from their house Wednesday and Thursday as I house/dog sit. Then when I go away on Friday my brother will come get Max for the weekend (of course this supposes he knows and remembers the codes to get into the house (there are two - one for the garage and one for the house itself)). Oy! Such drama. All so Max won't be alone overnight.
Bonus is that I can do laundry in their machines on Wednesday and Thursday so I can pack for my road trip.
I can't wait! The kites are already in the car.
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