LOL That was great!
I was lingering near the audio equipment at one point when a middle-aged couple asked me if I knew the price of some speakers. I looked for a price tag and then read $99.99 labeled on the shelf by the product. I said "$99.99?" Unsure. And they pointed out, "No. That is the price of the wireless speakers". "Oh", I said "Maybe it's been labeled wrong." The man said, "Well, do you work here?” I said, “No," but I thought they looked like good speakers. They looked puzzled.
Just then an actual Best Buy floor clerk approached me:
Employee: "You can't talk to my customers".
Simmons: "I'm just having a friendly conversation with these people”
Employee: "But you don't work here."
Simmons: "It's a free country I feel I can speak with anybody I choose."
Employee: "You're playing some games."
Simmons: "I'm just here to shop with my wife."
Employee: "Yeah, you and your 50 friends?"
Simmons: "I don't know anybody else here."
Employee: "Yeah, you're instigating (sic) our shirts."
Yes, he said INSTIGATING.
I told him, "I'm only wearing what I wore this morning,” and walked away.
A little while later, an older woman with a handful of products walked past me at one point muttering to herself, "Everyone in this goddamned store is wearing a blue shirt and nobody knows a thing!"
That was my experience everytime I had the misfortune to wander into a BestBuy. After the last encounter with the door nazis, I take my consumer dollars elsewhere.
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