Yeah, We Got That

• by GeekMan • In Geek Life •   3

Friday morning, 6:27am.

[telephone ringing]

GeekMan:
“Hello…?”

GeekMom:
“GeekMan! You need to wake up! Right now!”

GeekMan:
[groggy, but alarmed]
“Huh? What? Mom? Is something wrong? Are you OK?”

GeekMom:
[exasperated]
“Of course I’m OK! But you need to get up and listen to me, right now!”

GeekMan:
“Mom, you’re scaring me. What time is it?”

[looks at clock]

“OMG! It’s 6:30 in the fricking morning, mom! Whatever this is about, if it’s not life-threatening then it can wait until after I wake up at about noon, OK? I’m going back to bed now…”

GeekMom:
“No, it can’t wait and if you hang up on me then I won’t buy you anything. Unless, of course, you don’t need anything from the Super-Duper, 2-Hours Only Mega-Sale at Staples…”

GeekMan:
[suddenly more awake than he’s ever been in his life]
“Staples is having a special 2-hour sale?! Hold on a second and I’ll get the list I keep handy for just such an emergency…”

GeekMom:
“You better hurry. There’s a grandmother with a cane eyeballing the free-after-coupon-and-rebate scanner that I want and I’ll be damned if some old fart’s going to beat me to the last one.”

And you can bet my mother beat that old fart to the last scanner. Boo-yah.

She also got me some really great stuff at amazing discount prices. Things like a few hundred CD-Rs, another few hundred flat CD jewel cases, two 256MB Thumbdrives, and even a 17” flat-screen LCD monitor. And all for under $300. Yes, that price includes the LCD. Are you jealous? Oh yeah, I know you are. My mom rocks, even when she does wake me up at 6:30 in the fricking morning.

Mmmm… LCD. So bright, so colorful, so pretty… and all mine.

3 Comments

  2. Damn Staples and their early-bird-encouraging ways! Where’s my after-dinner sale, or maybe a nice ‘midnight madness’ discount-fest?

    The only way I’m getting to a Staples — or any other store — before 11 in the fricking morning is if I sleep in the stockroom. And even then, there’s a good chance I’ll oversleep, and drool and snore my way through the savings. Bitches!

  3. Im pissed cuz I missed the 6 to Midnight sale at Compusa. $50 DVD-R drives and $10 wireless routers..

    I made up for it by getting Pirates of the Carribean for $12. Someone had aquired some copies and dumped them at the local used DVD shoppe. :P

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