Friday, Feb. 12, 2016 – Search for Camera Day

What a trial today! My old camcorder had died during the Cattle Drive, and my phone has such a bad camera I knew I had to replace it, so today was the day designated for that. I borrowed my brother’s Sam’s Club card and we drove down to North Palm Beach to look there. We found one we wanted, but discovered I had to renew my brother’s membership, which I did while we were waiting for them to get our camera. Turned out they didn’t have any, so they offered to discount the display model, so I decided to take that. We waited another 20 minutes while they tried to find the box, and when they finally did, we saw it was missing all the parts, like the USB cord and the AC adapter! So we decided NOT to take that one. I went back to Member Services to get the credit back for the membership (my brother only uses his membership occasionally, no sense wasting months he doesn’t need to), and after I got the credit, the guy turned around and instead of giving me the Sam’s card back so I could give it to my brother, he shredded it! I couldn’t believe it! So now my brother will have to go in and get another one, though they told me he would only have to show his ID. I hope that’s true, that he doesn’t have to reapply. In truth, the card was in pretty bad shape, so hopefully my brother won’t mind having to get another one… Anyway, we went from there to the Walmart next door, and they didn’t have their cameras on display at all, just boxes that were locked up underneath the counter, and they have to stand there and watch you go through the boxes! How ridiculous! The clerk remarked that they had to do it that way because of vandalism, yet there was a phone display and a laptop display, so I’m not sure the logic holds. Anyway, there was no way I could make a decision based on the outside of a box, we left there disappointed. Next stop was Target, and they didn’t have anything comparable in stock (why do they leave things on display that they don’t have in stock?), then another Walmart, where they had a very small display. Finally, we decided we had to go to Best Buy (not my favorite place, but apparently the only game in town for electronics these days), and fortunately, they had a wide display, I found a camera that would do just what I wanted, a Nikon Coolpix S7000, and finally headed up to ABC for brandy, and our hometown Walmart for our final domestic shopping. Naturally by now we caught all the rush hour traffic, but finally got home about 5:30, fed the horses and got settled in for the night.

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