Afternoon annoyances

[redbird]

I went up to Staples (where I bought the printer/fax machine) and asked if they could print me a duplicate receipt. The man said they could if I'd paid with a credit card. I wasn't sure which card I'd used, so I gave him both, and he said it would take about 15 minutes. Twenty-five minutes later (I'd browsed a bit, but it's hard to get excited about cheap ballpoint pens) another employee called my name. She asked when I'd bought the machine, and told me that they only keep records of purchases for six months. Okay, I understand that, but why didn't the first guy think to tell me that? I'm going to hunt a bit more for the relevant paperwork, but I suspect it was eaten by the rebate procedure (which in turn is especially annoying because the rebate "gift check" got misplaced and expired).

Also, the nose pad has fallen off my glasses. Again. This time I have no idea when, and thus no idea where it might be. I suspect a visit to the place I got the glasses is in order (the first time, I got it re-attached at a random eyeglass store near the Port Washington train station).

None of this is earth-shattering, but it's all irritating, and I'm not in the best of moods yet anyhow.

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I don't recall: do you have a cat? I have to put my cpap mask someplace inaccessable because they like the texture of the nose pad on that. Would they go after glasses too?

[redbird]

I have a cat. He probably would go after glasses if I didn't keep them in a hard-sided case whether they aren't on me.

But this one isn't julian_tiger's fault: the glasses had both nosepads when I put them on this morning, and didn't have them an hour ago, and the only time I'd removed them in the interim was long enough to rinse and dry them.

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

My kid used to work at a Staples, and he could match you story for story: http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Dave/honorofthesalesman.html

Although I'm willing to grant you that some of the employees at Staples can be real morons. And given the management, they may have never told the first employee that printing a dupe receipt is only possible in the first 180 days after purchase.