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So I buy my cop a Sony Surround Sound Home Theatre System for his birthday from where I work...got a SUPER great deal. I'm thinking "Wow, this is awesome...a $400.00 home theatre system (5 disc dvd player, 5 speakers, subwoofer) for less than $200 bucks! Sweet!" I had big plans to put the thing together while he was out of town and surprise him with it when he got home next weekend...first problem I find is- the box is too heavy for me to maneuver myself. So he gets it early, because he can carry the box. So we're sitting here tonight all bored and decide to watch a movie, so I tell him I will go ahead and set up the system for him. I unpack the whole thing, get it almost all set up, and find that two of the speaker cables are missing pivitally important pieces- the connector piece that hooks it into the DVD player! . So I look all around the box, and upon a closer look at the connectors, find that they've been stripped off...MEANING someone bought the set, took it home, fucked it up and returned it. And my stupid place of employment doesn't bother looking in the box, just marks it down and resells it. :anger: So I do what any self respecting girl should do. I get pissed and burst into tears. . Turn out that there are several missing pieces. So I'm sitting in his lap, bawling my eyes out about how I suck and how I can't believe I bought such a fucking piece of shit...the whole time he's tellng me how awesome I am and how happy he is that he has me and how happy he is that he has this great birthday present and how we can get parts to fix it, etc. etc. (All the while I'm crying big fat tears all over his chest...sigh...this is why I love him all kinds of lots) I decide that I will just take it all back tomorrow, which ruins all my plans for tomorrow. Then he suggest maybe going to Radio Shack or Media Play or something to get maybe the pieces to fix it. I'm kind of mechanically inclined when it comes to wiring stuff, so I know I can fix it if we get the right pieces. I hooked up the entire set and it actually all works. We have to buy three connector things for the cables though. It's also missing an antenna to pick up radio stations - it's a radio/cd player, too. I'm still SUPER pissed- I buy this really great, top of the line fucking SONY equipment and it's fucked up before we even get it out of the damn box!! I just can't believe it! .
I also am HIGHLY pissed at whoever would damage something like that and bring it back. It was really intentionally done- it fucking had to be. If someone wanted to return it and get their money back they could've just fucking returned it. That's how the return process works. You don't like something and want your money back, you bring it back. You don't fuck it up for the next person to fucking buy it and find out it's broken and it won't work like it's supposed to! .
At least part of it works. Stay tuned for what happens when we go to Radio Shack in the morning. If we can't find the pieces to fix it someone is going to get injured at my place of employment for putting this piece of shit out on the sales floor after it's been broken.
*sigh* I suppose this is what I get for trying to be the perfect girlfriend. Every surprise I try to do gets foiled in some way. I'm still going to manage to surprise him a little with an easter basket...and I got a door poster and streamers to deface his house on his birthday. Maybe that will work. I try. He knows I do. He loves me for it...I guess that's all that matters.