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I stopped at Best Buy on the way home to look at a few items (they have excellent pricing on new DVD releases). On the way out, they have this system where a lacky stops you at the door to inspect your receipt (Costco do the same thing). This has always pissed me off, because I can’t see any reason why they should do this that isn’t insulting, so this evening, I challenged the slack jawed ape at the door to explain why he had to see it:

Slack jawed ape: Could I see your receipt please?

Me: Why?

Slack jawed ape: Um, it’s just policy. (Right now he’s trying to reach over to scribble on the receipt in my hand, I pull back).

Me: As far as I can tell, there are two possibilities. Either you suspect that I’ve stolen something between the checkout 10 feet away and this door, or you think it’s possible that I might not have noticed something extra/missing on my receipt. So I’m either a thief or an idiot. Which is it?

Slack jawed ape: No no, that’s not it, it’s just that we have to check it.

Me: Why?

Slack jawed ape: It’s just policy. Is it really that big a deal? (This pissed me off)

Me: Yes it’s a big deal. There’s no reason why you should need to see my receipt. You can’t give me a good reason beyond “It’s policy” and I think that sucks. Either you’re calling me a thief, or an idiot, or there’s some other reason. Either way, you don’t seem to be able to answer it.

Slack jawed ape: It’s like, if someone returns something, we can show it was checked..

Me: Erm, ok, that makes no sense at all.

Slack jawed ape: I’m just trying to do my job.

Me: I understand that. Please tell your manager of my opinion.

At this point, the slack jawed ape gave up, and went back to checking the next people to leave the store and I left, without my receipt scribbled upon.

Am I the only one that gets irritated by this? I seriously don’t see what possible reason they could have to genuinely need to look at my receipt, and the lack of a good answer from the idiot at the door didn’t exactly do anything to assuage my irritation. At any rate, I’d consider writing an email to their headquarters, but I know it won’t make the slightest bit of difference. I’ll just continue to make life difficult for the idiots at the door every time I go there..

Don’t read unless you want to. Contains Spoilers, and maybe traces of peanuts.

Saw it tonight on IMAX. The screen/sound were absolutely awesome. The movie was not. Reloaded left things on a nice cliffhanger with all sorts of possible ways the story could spin off in the third movie. Throughout Revolutions, I was waiting for the twist.. the big surprise.. something totally unexpected. It never came. It was just scene after scene of predictable, banal action. Oh look, here’s Neo fighting Agent Smith. I wonder what will happen. Will he win? Will he die? Do we care? At no point in the movie do you seriously believe Neo or Zion are at great risk. Sure lots of people get killed in the Zion battle, but it goes pretty much as expected. You’re just waiting for the moment in each scene where you’ll see the “winning move” that allows the scene to end and move onto the next one.

They could have done SO much after Reloaded.. there were so many angles that could have been explored. Ideas that could have been expanded upon.. but they didn’t. This was the cop out Hollywood style movie that required absolutely no thought whatsoever. I went in with low expectations, and it was worse than I thought it would be.

Disappointing. Really disappointing.

There are basically two shows I ever watch on TV. One of those is ‘The West Wing’. As usual, Tivo started recording it at 9, and around 9:20, we went in to watch it.. except, it’s not ‘The West Wing’, it’s ‘Law and Goddamn Order: Crimally Inept’ or something. NBCs website says ‘Tonights episode of The West Wing will air on 10/29′ with no particular explanation. This leads one to assume that they’re attempting to increase the popularity of a rather less popular show on the back of a very popular one by switching the schedule at the last minute and hoping people will watch what’s on instead.

Assholes.