My New Camera
I didn’t want a new camera (other than the good one I had that my daughter stole). I didn’t want a new little point and click camera. However, for some reason, lately my little camera wasn’t holding a charge, so whenever I’d turn it on to take a picture, it would tell me that the battery was almost empty.
So I headed off to Staples where I bought it, expecting to buy a new battery. The guy there told me that they didn’t carry those batteries, and he didn’t know who did, maybe I could try Future Shop.
That seemed like a pain in the ass, so I told him I’d buy the new camera that was on sale. He asked me if I had an extended warranty on the old camera but I said no, and figured I’d have to cough up the money I don’t really have, just to have a working camera again.
He told me that even the battery would have been covered if I’d had the extended warranty. I told him that sometimes I do buy the extended warranty, but I couldn’t remember if I’d bought it on this, I’d have to look through my papers when I got home.
He told me they could check online to see if I had the warranty, so I said go for it. He called somebody, they were asking questions about the make, the model, etc. It occurred to me that it would be just my luck that I’d bought one on one of the camera models I’ve owned, but watch it wouldn’t be this one.
Well, you know what? I did buy the extended warranty on that camera and they told me that. That meant that my new camera was free! Free, free, free! I like that in a camera.
He asked me if I’d like to purchase the extended warranty. I guess you know what I said. I said yes. Worked for me once, it might work for me again in the future.
So I bought the extended warranty and they told me I owed them one cent. I can live with that.
One penny. Ha, ha. One penny. New camera (with wide angle, unlike my last one), in a nice plum colour. I figured not too many people would buy the plum colour, and I’d never had a plum coloured one, so I went for it.
I’m just happy. Good things have been happening lately. Maybe it’s karma. Gotta go take pictures of inane things right now to test it.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
Plum sounds great! I have a red camera. The newer version of what I was looking at would’ve been plum – or purple, whatever – but I had just bought plane tickets to Australia and was feeling miserly. I mostly use my phone’s camera anyway and that’s a gadget I’m happy to splurge on.