I don’t get it anymore. I mean I wonder if we, as a society, haven’t gone completely bonkers. For example, last night the wife and I went to buy a new digital camera. It was on sale for $200 and by the time we were finished, it was $322 and it had to be the strangest buying trip I have ever gone on.

Does $300 no longer mean anything?

To begin with we went to Staples. Now that might have been the problem to begin with but hey, the price was right. When we got there, there was no one really around. Some guy was helping someone behind the cameras so we waited. Then he just left so we went up to the cashier, to get a sales person for digital cameras.

You would think that alone would evoke some interest. Guess again. Then when we asked if she could page someone, well that seemed to be like we asked to see her titties. I mean like she really didn’t want to, but did. Okay so now we figure someone will come, right?

Nope.

Finally we snagged someone walking and got him to help. Well I think that was what he’d call it. Certainly not me, though in fairness he was polite, sort of. Bottom line, is that after what seemed like hours, it went from buying the camera then, to the next day, which then somehow became middle of next week. Like that was unreal, so we asked to have them sell us the model on the floor. That wasn’t a suggestion he liked when we first mentioned it, but finally he agreed, like huh? You would think they’d want to make a sale.

So eventually we got it, paid the bill and did anyone say thank you?

So what is happening today? Are we that unhappy with where we work, are we that untrained today that we don’t even have simple matters to thank someone for just spending $300+?

Obviously not at Staples.

Then gas went up again yesterday, and no one is bitching. We just accept it and keep taking money out to pay for simply living, and I really wonder.

Have we gone nuts?

Gas is at $65 a barrel. When it was up at $70 a barrel gas went up to just over $1 a litre here, and here it is at $5 less and gas is now at $1.23 a litre. So like why the hell isn’t anyone bitching like crazy? I know I am, and in fact am writing my idiot Member of Parliament who thinks the Harper Energy Plan is a godsend to Canada. Like yeah, to the oil companies, and car companies, but sure as hell ain’t for those of us who have to pay for it.

Just like the stupid tax credit for riding the bus. Harper claimed it would increase ridership by 50%. Man, how in the hell did we buy into that total bullshit? The price to ride the buses also went up early this month. So there really is no incentive to use public transport, and yet we get dumb tax credits? I mean why don’t we start getting real? Why aren’t there more protests happening or at least opposition MPs screaming more?

Where is the press?

Busy talking about the Hockey playoffs and the upcoming Olympics in 2010? Give me a break. Isn’t it time someone stood up and got counted? Why is it, that we simply accept this nonsense, high gas prices, higher food prices, and for what? So CEO’s of Oil Companies can buy a new private jet, or retire to become Stephen Harper’s adviser on ethics?