the mac minions
”they’ say once you buy mac…you never go back.
‘they’ might be right. we’ll see.
today i took out an extortionate amount of money to purchase a new computer. a MAC BOOK PRO computer. it’s not really even in my budget to do this. but i have been without a computer for over a month now and it is a bit silly when the way that i make money is WITH my computer. so here we go. time to make some money.
but just on a side note… mac store? wow. i had never been in one before (other than to quickly check my emails or to take some fun photos on photobooth) and seriously, those guys have it down.
the first thing i noticed was that i couldn’t see a ‘purchase counter’ or a ‘checkout’. i asked Tess if she could see one and she said ‘no pam, you purchase from a salesperson.’ i glanced around at all the happy-go-geeky sales staff and noticed suddenly that they all had little credit card machines around their shoulders. genius.
also, no sooner had i told ‘preston’ that i wanted to purchase a macbookpro, when a little man came running towards us from (seemingly) out of nowhere clutching a white case with ‘macbookpro’ written across it in black type. he stopped in front of us, silently handed the case to preston, spun around on his heels and scurried off back into the crowds of shoppers.
our jaws dropped as we gawked disbelievingly at our friendly salesman. he didn’t seem phased in the slightest.
tess and i imagined a little room full of small men sitting around on crates, smoking cigarettes, drinking strong liquor and playing rummy, waiting for the red light to start buzzing indicating a purchase. they would then do ‘paper scissors rock’ to see who had to run out the order… and the same guy would always lose (he ALWAYS did scissors dammit he couldn’t help it).
anyway…
so i now have a computer. and to celebrate, i made a little movie about my mac day.
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I really enjoyed your story about buying your Mac. Very amusing, especially the Umpa Lumpas who deliver the boxes. I laughed out loud.
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