An afternoon of ridiculousness:

I went to a SunGlass Hut near the office on my lunch-break today on a quest to acquire a pair of ridiculously overpriced sunglasses. I jokingly told a co-worker that they were worth it because they were made of Unobtanium. I then checked the website and found that they, in fact, were fucking made out of Unobtanium.

:ultramon:

So yeah, slightly retarded but now that whole sunglasses-problem is solved for the foreseeable future.

Standing in line, the girl working the brick & mortar had me fill out an index card with my name, address, e-mail address, phone number claiming that I needed to do so to buy a replacement pair of glasses at half-ridiculous-price should I break mine. I know the drill, I’m 21st Century Man, this isn’t the first time I’ve been put in a database – or in my case, polluted a database. I pushed my age up by 7 years, live in my work office and have a non-functional office number. While I’m filling mine out, another 40-something-guy in line jumped up in front of me to buy his glasses, thinking I was a sucker getting the warranty or something.

“Sir, please fill out this card so that we have your information should you accidentally break your glasses you will be able to come back and get a replacement pair of glasses at half price” <- not wise advertising ridiculous-price-margins imo, also stupid.

“I’m not even from around here and I’m here because I broke a pair, that’s quite alright.”

“You can take advantage of this at any Sunglass Hut sir.”

“I don’t care, I don’t want to be on your mailing list.”

“...”

“I’m not going to fill it out”

“Sir, I have to have you fill it out to sell you the glasses”

me: “Uh.. you can just use mine man, I just put shit on it anyway ;)”

“haha, ok, I’ll use his, is that ok?”

clerk: “uhh…”

“Fine, you want me to fill it out, I’ll fill it out”

When he walked to the counter to fill it out, she rang me up. He returned in time for me to see his card made out for SMITH at (555)555-5555.

:dance: