Buying Discounted Software without Getting Arrested

I have only been kicked out of two places in my life, Canada and Wal-Mart. Yet neither event was my own fault. My first experience with the authorities had to do with a combination of two carefree teenagers with hair bigger than Superfly and a Mountie wannabe who didn't think a good reason to enter Canada at 3am was, "just going for a drive". They took my car apart faster than a NASCAR pit crew. I am sure to this day there is a Wanted Poster in Sarnia with the caption: "Dead or Alive: For not having a good reason to enter Canada". Actually I have been back to Canada many times since. The custom agents always ask me why I seem so nervous and sweaty. I keep the hat over my face and say that I have a cold. I don't think they suspect a thing.

My more recent expulsion experience with Wal-Mart breaks my heart. I am a devout Wal-Mart shopper. I shop there so often that, last year, when Wal-Mart's stock dropped 5 points, I know it was because I was in bed with the flu! Wal-Mart and Sam's is where I find my best buys on software. I just wait for the sales.

One afternoon I found a good price on Warcraft II. When I got the game home, to my surprise, no CD. On the evening I took it back, a new assistant manager began working. I glanced around (probably looking shifty-eyed), hoping to catch someone who I knew, but he walked over to me and asked if he could help. I told him what had happen. He didn't believe me. He reluctantly refunded my money. I continued my weekly shopping adventures to Wal-Mart. But every time this assistant manager was there, he would be following me around like I was the head of some great software-shoplifting ring. Months passed and then I spotted another bargain. Age of Empire was priced at $24.95. I knew this game had been $59.95. My plan was to take the game to the front, tell them that I knew that they had made a mistake, but I would like to purchase the game at that price. As I marched up to the service desk, guess who came in the door? Before I could even say a word, he snatched the game out of my hand and looked at it. He caught me off guard and I was too surprised to say anything. He grinned with a sneer as to say "I got you this time". He barked, "Boy, you ain't pulling this one over on me. I use to run the electronic department and I know how you operate. I've seen you switch prices before and this time you're not going to get away with it." I knew better than that (and he did too). He told me to leave and I did. The next day I found out that man had been transferred to another store. I returned and found Age of Empire on sale for $24.95. Justice prevailed.

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