I went to an American store with a French name
to return a German made coffee maker. If that
wasn't bad enough. I got the coffee maker as a
gift and thought, gee this is great until I opened the box and discovered a clear plastic
coffee maker that might have cost the manufacture all of five dollars to make. It had
a unique design that sucked the coffee upwards
into another plastic container and then flushed
the coffee back down again. Well, once I had
figured out the engineering marvel of assembling
the 7 peices I realized that I had been had.
Yes, HAD. I wasn't sure how much this machine
had cost until I returned it and then I was
flabbergasted. Have you ever had that feeling
that you and someone you cared deeply for had
been royally fucked over. Well I had that feeling
at the french named store while returning the
german made hundred dollar coffee pot, when the
clerk advised me that since it was a gift I could
only receive store credit.
Store Credit!! I retorted, there wasn't a damned
thing in this overpriced plastic and paper goods
store that I could have wanted. All the other
coffee pots in the store were $150 dollars or
more and made as cheaply as the one I had just
returned. Idiot utensils, tin pans, cheap,cheap,
cheap crap. I was floored and almost had couldn't
contain my comments. Fortunately for me I was
accompanied by a woman who is far more level headed than I am and convinced me not to argue with the management or picket the store.