• Can I have someone younger, please?

    9/4/20094:14:46 PM Link 0 comments | Add comment

    As we prepare for our move, I have been ordering the necessary items such as . . . . chairs . . . . . desks . . . . . audio / video . . . . . computers . . . . . . and a security system. After nearly 20 years . . . . . . plenty of updates are needed.

     
    Our building is almost ready and our move-in date of October 5th is becoming more and more likely. We can’t wait. This advance preparation will make it so much easier for the move.
     
    Yesterday, I purchased a couple of wireless speakers for our new office, but, I wanted to try them out in our current office. The antenna has a small MP3 type jack for connecting to my receiver. My receiver . . . . . . . it appears . . . . . .does not understand MP3. It only knows LP and CD. Not a problem . . . . . . I can connect it through the headphones. Of course, . . . . these headphones look like a Minnesota child wearing earmuffs in the middle of February.
     
    The headphone receptacle looks like I could stick my finger in it . . . . . and my new antenna has this little delicate pin. What to do . . . what to do. For all questions electronic . . . . . . go to Radio Shack.
     
    The girl asks me if she can help . . . . . and I responded with a “yes . . . I need to convert a ¼ inch headphone jack to an MP3 size jack”. She then tells me that there is no such thing as a ¼ inch headphone jack. Again . . . I start my explanation with a little more detail . . . . . as she is explaining how all headsets are small I-pod type . . . . “I need a plug which is ¼ inch with a receptacle on the opposite end which will fit the little MP3 plug-in”.  “You can not have a headset like that”, she says. I try again . . . . as I am looking through the shelves myself while she is saying “I can’t help you if you don’t tell me what you need” . . . . . . . I chuckle and as I am telling her I know what I need, I pick up a bag containing exactly what I described. I turn to her and ask . . . “is this what I need”? . . . . . . “I don’t know . . . you won’t tell me what you want”.
     
    Is there anyone older in the store . . . . . . . maybe someone over 25?
     
    Well, my new speakers work fine . . . . with an older receiver . . . . . and a part which doesn’t exist. It’s a good thing I wasn’t looking for a new stylus . . . . . . . . . . I would have wound up next door at the hair salon getting braids and a new  look.                                  Well . . . . . . that might not have been  such a bad idea.

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