[HTC Rezound] jayochs:
as the days go on, it gets harder and harder to deal with stupid people..

had an older couple (probably early 60's, late 50's) come in. woman wants an upgrade. wants a smartphone. asks me about stuff, i show her iphones, i show her androids and hell, even blackberry. she asks the difference between the iphone and android. i tell her. i tell her that on her 7+ year old pc she has at home, itunes most likely won't run as well as it would if she had a mac or a newer pc, and she needs to use itunes to upload her music and pics etc.. she agrees that android sounds superior. i show her my rezound, she LOVES it...loves the screen, how big it is, the feel of the phone, etc. she's like, i'll take it.

meanwhile, her husband called their idiot son and just blurts out "hey, iphone or android?! which one should she get!?" the son is a typical idiot apple fanboy, so we all know his response.

the douchebag makes his mom give me the phone, to which he then proceeds to waste 10 minutes of my life. mind you, it's already after 8pm (closing time) but i decided to stay open to help these nice folks.

the idiot is blabbing on about how she should can iphone, it's so much better, he had an iphone but got a droid and the droid sucks wah wah wahwah and he just won't stop talking to let me get a word in..i finally do and i'm like, "look guy, we're not here to debate this and how you don't know how to use your phone. you act like using android is god damn rocket science, and it's not. it's user friendly. if you can't figure it out, then i'm sorry that you don't understand technology. my 62 year old mother runs a rooted nook tablet running CM7 and she has NO problems with it WHATSOEVER, so your argument that older people should use iphones is invalid and asinine. i don't have time for this; i should've had the store closed 20 minutes ago, so i don't need to sit here and listen to your ranting," and then i gave the phone back to her. she was then like, okay i'll just get the iphone i guess because he said thats waht i should get.

i'm like, sooo, you like what the rezound has features wise (bigger screen was the big deal for her) but because your son told you to get an iphone, you're going to get a 2 year old phone with a small screen? (she was looking at the 99 dollar 4 8 gig, btw.)

i'm just like whatever at this point, and i get it out for her because that's what she wanted. yet somehow, i still managed to NOT give either of them an attitude (only their son on the phone).. so then, i begin to explain protect cell to her, and that iphone insurance is more than what she pays now, and that if she buys it up front with protect cell, it costs less money, they do device buyback (which they give 50% of the MSRP of the phone if you wanna sell it back), and they have ID theft protection. she just flat out says, no i don't want that at all...so obvioulsy i have to do the mandatory, "so you want to pay more money for your insurance for your phone than you have to?" of course hearing this prompts her husband to be like, "look, maybe we should think about this first before we jump into anything...you're only getting the phone because your son tells you to, while this man explained android to you, and your friends told you to get android"

so i happily give the husband my card, he asks waht days i'm there, and i tell them to just look up reviews and whatnot and then to come back and i'll help them out..

but seriously? this wasted 40 minutes of my time; they didn't buy anything, and i had to listen to a moron on the phone for 10 minutes trying to tell me iphones are better. i can't deal with this anymore....i don't work well with ignorant people.

/rant