An Extra $300 and I...

...have this uncontrollable feeling to just go out and buy electronics.

Fired up the Chromebook and headed to Bestbuy.com. I know, right? Who shops at Bestbuy nowadays, I do!! Let me explain.  Since Bestbuy, (BB) , is actually a store, which has way too many employees working at any given time on the floor. It's always a good feeling walking in and see just what they have on display. But I notice something...and this is what cause me to spend 6 hours at this one store yesterday.

I went online to look for a Boombox that played cd, cd/rw's and cd/rw's mp3's. CD's, right? Who still uses them..me. And again mind you. Also, I needed cd/rw's too. Funny, when I ordered it, both items were available NOT in the SAME stores. A marketing ploy. Got an email that both items were ready to be picked up at their seperate stores. First store, 5 miles away. Me, with no car, but with a Smartphone in hand, tapped my app, Lyft. It's an app that I donated $25 to and I get 2 weeks worth of free cab rides. Basically, its $12.50 a week, if a cab is in my area. Hell, I tip the driver $5, so its a win, win for the both of us. I walked the 'lanes' of BB, just looking and seeing if they have new stuff, affordable new stuff that is...and that's when I met her.

She was looking at external hard drives and couldn't make up her mind, so I explained which ones dd what. But first I asked what she wanted to do with it, it's use. Just to back up her files, she is a photographer. More talking and she told me that she didn't know how to hook it up, but I told her I would show her. She had her laptop with her. She went to the car to get it..left me at the register with her credit card to pay for the external hard drive. Right there in the store, we found an outlet, which I think BB had an issue with us doing that. But I told them I wanted to see if it worked and I might upgrade to a Cloud hard drive. It worked great, but she wanted to know more about the Cloud hard drive, so I explained it. She wanted that one, took the one we had, placed back in box and got the Cloud off the shelf and pay for it. She thanked me for my help, gave me her name and number and told me to please stay in touch.

I'm walking around BB, taking notes on stuff I see. Writing down what I want to do with it if I were to purchase it. She comes walking back into the store as I was leaving. Told me she got a good vibe about me, something she hasn't felt in a long time, lets talk about anything I wanted to talk about. Right there in BB, in the video section, we grab some movies and sat down on the floor and starting talking about just about anything. After a while I told her that I had to go to another BB to pick up something I ordered online, she took me. Got what I wanted, and she took me to her home.

Now, nothing happened, though we both wanted it to...but we were having a good time just talking and I was floored by her home. Talk about this is how I want to live!! I mean the space, the greenery, the fresh air. Explained to her I was from The Bronx, and just moved here. We are talking, phone ringing all the time and after a while door bell rings. A bunch of her friends came over and were shocked that I was sitting on her floor in the living room. I mean, it got really quiet. She told them that she has company and could they all come back later. Guy tells, no asked me who I am. I told him I was his worst nightmare...with a smile. They left, and we continued talking.

Being that she is a Photographer, she showed me some of her cameras. NICE ones and said if I continue to be a gentleman, I might get to borrow one. Today she is dropping by the job to take some pictures and to see me. So, with an extra $300...