Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
I agree. You're better off staying at home and wolfing down the last tier of Danish butter cookies in the tin.

(By the way, did you see the image of the tin I posted on SO?)
MG, if I were to relate to you the measures these desperate people are driven to, you'd be appalled. Let me tell you anyway?

1. Please don't tell me that your elderly mother is miserably hot in the house. When I tell you that we are out of stock, we are out of stock. I don't have the ability to pull an a/c out of my butt to sell you.
2. Don't tell me that all your dogs have died from heat exhaustion. While I empathise, there is nothing I can do unless you would like to place an order today and pick it up in a week.
3. Don't ask to see the manager when I've already told you that I have none to sell you. What can the manager do? I know that he doesn't have a magical butt either.
4. When I tell you that your best bet is to place an order today and that the earliest pick up date is after 5pm on Sept 11, please don't ask me if it can come in any earlier.
5. After I let you know the soonest pick up date, and you tell me me that's too far out, I'm thinking you don't need one that badly after all.
6. Don't ask me who has a/c's available. I don't work there and I have no access to their inventory counts.
7. Don't ask me for phone numbers to all the other Sears stores in town when I tell you that every one of our stores are sold out. There are so many other customers behind you, each equally or more impatient. I neither have the time nor the inclination to do something that you can let your fingers do with the yellow pages.
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!