Online Shopping
(Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the web.)
And so began…the longest day. Many Pepsis were consumed, and as I ran
off of pure caffeine I began to ponder really stupid questions, like "What is the
plural of Pepsi? Pepii? Pepsies? Pepsis?" I begain ingesting a Pepsi every hour, when
the shakes got me again…it was hard to type when my hands started to shake. I started
hallucinating too. Bono, lead singer of U2, broke into my room and stole my mouse pad.
Then the big Kool-Aid pitcher guy crashed though my wall, said "Oh yeah!" and
left. It was clear I couldn't hold out much longer.
Have you ever thought your chair was going to try to eat you?
Dawn crept along the land, it was the day the camera was to arrive. I
dined on hot dogs and even more Pepsi. I tried to think of what I would do if the package
didn't arrive. Images of me dressed in camouflage everything wielding a grenade launcher
busting into the UPS Hub at the airport danced through my mind …no…noooooo…
mustn't think those thoughts … not when they could hear.
I was laying on the floor shaking, trying to fend off the brain eating cockroaches that
had covered me like a blanket, screaming in their tiny cockroach voices, when I heard a
rumbling down the driveway. Out my window I saw a big brown UPS truck pulling into the
driveway. Brushing the cockroaches off (they disappeared as they hit the ground) I
stumbled out the door, hissing and blinking at the sun.
"You Matt Jolley?" The UPS Guy asked, cradling a box under an arm.
"Snuh." I said and snatched the box from him.
"Uh…sigh here" He said, motioning to a little techno clipboard. I had
visions of braining the UPS guy with the clipboard and starting a new life by selling the
goods in said truck, but instead I just scribbled down something, maybe
"Kittybum" or some such, and shuffled back inside.
The Package.
I placed the package on my desk and attempted to open the box with my bare
hands. The stout packing tape thwarted my attempts. I took out a knife and slashed the
tape, and dug through a mountain of plastic peanuts to claim my prize.
Packages Within The Package
There was my prize, in two Canon branded boxes, both sealed presumably at
the factory. There was a "refurbished" sticker on both boxes, but it looked to
me like Canon did the refurbishing and Smile had not laid their evil thieving hands upon
them. I opened the boxes, and inside were my Camera body and lens, both in mint condition
and bearing a small "Refurbished" sticker on them. After running 3 rolls of film
through the setup, I concluded that the camera does indeed work. I was lucky, this time.
Would I put myself through this hell again just for a good deal? Well, I don't know, but Smile has this killer deal on a
Sony Digital Super-8 Camera…:)
The Camera.
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