Today at Best Buy the emplyee at the checkstand didn’t like my question.   I had two memory chips in two different packages.  I asked why the previously opened chip package was four dollars more than the unopened package.  He was confused as to why I would wonder why that was.  It was simply that way.  It felt a bit stone age-like.  We’ll call the employee, whose name was I think Christopher, Thag.  Thag must have just gotten off of his smoke break wherein he was smoking large sequoia trees and checking out Olgatha who was in charge of stocking the store.  Her Cheetah-skin outfit was freshly tanned.  After I figured out he wasn’t going to help me get the opened chip for a discounted price I just bought the new chip.  As I swiped the credit card through the card reader he said, “The upside is that you can get the new chip cheaper than the used chip.”

Yeah, that’s not an upside, that’s a problem.