The law enforcement ppl in this town is certainly a wonderful bunch to be around. First they want to visit you at home at 8.30pm.. even though you already told them.. you are putting your kid to bed… and that it was a business matter.. so shouldn’t they be visiting us at the store.. and had some courtesy .. not to come over to our house .. at nite..??  given that we are the witness..!!! and not the one being prosecuted.

On top of it.. they don’t know what the subpeona was for.. what case.. nor anything about it.. because he was doing it for another officer.  JOY..!!!  and then.. he told us.. that a warrant of arrest would be issued if we didn’t turn up..!!!  WTF..???!!!!???  LIKE WE WERE THE ONE .. IN TROUBLE..!!!!!

This law enforcement fellas.. are amazing .. donch you think..??

Yes.. ! that was the phone call i received this afternoon .. when PB was out on an errand for a customer.  How would you feel .. if you were in my shoes..??  While we try so hard to do everything by the book.. and never burnt a game or movie in our store.  Absolutely not..!! and never even thought about it.

Don’t you think that was an insult..??  Customer sent her sister.. and a man.. with 2 kids.. to exchange a game with us.. that they had bought a week ago.  I had asked for the receipt for it.. so that i can change the game for them.  But nope. .they didn’t have the receipt.  They called the sister .. who supposedly had the receipt.. but as soon as she got onto the phone with me.. she said “Isn’t it illegal that you are selling burnt games..??”  in which i took serious offence to that statement. .and accusation.  I then told the sister on the phone not to insult me.. or my business.. and before i could finish .. the bitch over the counter .. told me to stop shouting at her sister.  In which . .i returned the phone to the man.. who was with the bitch.. and told them.. i can’t hear her.

The bitch over the counter.. told me.. that they are the customer.. and that i should “stop”.  I tried to explain to her.. to put herself.. in my shoes.. in which she replied.. she is not her sister. So she went on saying that all she wanted was an exchange. .and i kept telling her.. that i want the receipt.  You see I would definitely  had done something for her. .if she wasn’t so rude in the first place.

And guess what..?? she stared at me so hard.. as if to tell me.. she would fight with me. .physically for a $10 bucks game.. which prolly didn’t even cost her $10 because we have a buy 2 get 1 free promotion on. .the whole week.  You don’t go into ppl store.. and insult and accused ppl of selling illegal stuff..!!!!!  what kinda person are you. …..???  ya.. i guess a very stupid one.. and plus .. i shouldn’t get too upset with someone that stupid right..? She even had the nerve to ask PB to get me to stop talking. .muahhahahaha!!!  in which PB replied..  “she is my wife.. i’m not gonna ask her to stop”.  Well. .he knows better i guess.

And no.. that’s no way to behave .. at all. .whether she was in my store.. or at someone’s else store.  My mother would say.. “what a low class” .. if she was around.

You would think that business acquaintance should have some common courtesy about not doing their business in your store… and try to under cut us..?? but nope .. apparently it doesn’t work for this guy who owns a gym in town.. and sells legal steroids for the guys who goes to his gym for body building.  This fella is quite annoying.. and i’m only too glad.. we don’t get to see him too often at our store.  Do you have someone in your town who does that to you and your business all the time..?? what would you do..??

Although we have loads of good customers.. we also have our fair share of “great” ones..!  Just yesterday.. we had one that came in to return us 2 computer games.. because he couldn’t figure out how to work the game.  The box was opened and all.. but he insisted that since he bought it from us.. he should be able to return it to us. .irregardless.  Yes..!!  one cannot comprehend idiots .. and even though we explained to him.. that we can’t re-sell certain games.. because of the codes involved.. he just insisted that he didn’t want it. .but wanted another game.. and that he didn’t open the boxes.. but was just reading the instructions on the boxes.

Yah..right..!!! we chinese have a saying..  “Bluff children don’t know how to eat chilli”, meaning.. he was trying to tell me and treat me like a kid .. who never tasted chilli (hot sauce)”  No .. i don’t deal well with idiots..!  sorry.

We should put up a big sign like this right outside our store, so that i don’t get infuriated and wanna jump over the counter and smack their head each time.. someone tries to sell something to us… but wants it in their terms.

TERMS for SELLING STUFF

Sell your stuff on our terms.. and not yours.

If you see a similar product at $150 .. it does not mean it is the same product as yours.  We cannot give you $130 for your stuff.

Do not tell me to lower my price for my product.. so that I will have it sold faster.

Please do not dictate how i should price my products or dictate how i should run my business.

THE MINUTE YOU START PAYING MY RENT, THE HEAT, LIGHTS AND MY TAXES (PLUS THE EMPLOYEES), THEN WE WILL GO BY YOUR TERMS.

Now i know why the local papers only has a PR 4 .. and USA Today has a PR 8 with loads of advertisement.. and making all sorts of money.  I had written a comment on one of the article written by the local reporter .. and guess what..?? no comments were published at all.. after so many weeks.  I guess they don’t believe in free speech eh..??  Oh well.. !  i’ve always known that the local papers is kinda not news worthy..! that’s alright.. ! i’ll read .. USA Today instead.

I swear that 9 years in business.. and you thought you already seen everything this town can bring you.  From the ridiculous .. to the ignorant.. to the cocky .. and to those who thinks that we don’t need to pay for our car because it is under our store’s name.

On the 20th of August.. a Bin Ladin lookalike came into the store to buy a computer part from PB.  We left shortly after for the kid’s needles for mumps/rubella and other good stuff.  When we came back, Bin Ladin was in shortly… and told PB that the computer part that he bought was actually his .. and stolen from him.

He accused us of buying stolen goods.. on top of it threatened PB .. that he was gonna call the cops in . .and SHUT OUR STORE DOWN.. !!!  muahahhahahahaha!!!  THE NERVE OF THAT IDIOT.  He said we had to verify the goods before buying it.. else he can get the cops to shut us down.  He wanted to take his stuff back .. without paying for it.  I asked him to prove that it really belongs to him.. and he said. he can call his manufacturer and so forth.  Ya.. right..!!!  the manufacturer got time for you ..!!!

To cut the long story short.. i told him that where i came from.. i would have jumped over the counter to smack him on his head.. for being so rude.. and ignorant. And that if he wants to play nasty.. so can we.  He was darn lucky..!! had my kid not walked in with the babysitter.. Bin Ladin lookalike might just have had been smacked on the head with a baseball bat.. that we kept under our counter.  Then this crazy chinese woman in Canada.. would be on local news.. with headlines.. “Crazy Chinese Woman In Canada.. smacked Bin Ladin Lookalike”!

Yes.. he apologized..and all.. but i didn’t really stay to chat .. because i had to bring the kid home.  Got no time for ppl like that.  9 yrs in business.. and ppl still wants to come in and tell us how to make our money. .and how much we should sell our stuff for..??!!!??  FREAK THAT..!! they can start .. when they start paying the light and heat bill.. and pay for the rent.

Don’t i wished i could smack those ignorant ppl who thinks that they know all. Here she is trying to sell her stuff to us.. !! she is the one needing our help.. and needing money..!! Yet when PB offered them what we think was reasonable.. she told us that if we lowered our prices for used stuff.. we could have it sold quick .. and went on mumbling.

So she needs money.. she needs us to buy the stuff.. yet she wants to tell me how much i should charge to sell my things..?? in other words.. telling me how to run my business..?? BOY ..!!! was i mad..!! had she not taken the money and ran outta the store.. i would have stopped the transaction..!! coz’ she was not only rude.. she was ignorant..!!! and i refused to be bullied by some south end trash..!!

If PB buys anymore stuff from her .. in the future.. i’m gonna jump over the counter and smack him first.

I was very tempted to put a picture of the whale for all to see.. then you will know that i wasn’t kidding when i called her a whale. And donch get me wrong.. there is nothing wrong.. with being bigger .. than most ppl.. i’m entirely A – OK with it, not like I am petite in size and all. But I called her the Whale because as the chinese saying goes.. “Eat human donch even need to spit out the bones” .. this is exactly what this Whale is like.

8 yrs ago, when i first arrived in Canada.. I met the Whale because he was working for PB. She had begged for a job.. because she wanted to get outta welfare. Outta giving back to society.. the man hired her on. In the short period that I had known the Whale, we had loan her money for her rent, let her bring her kid to work, send her home from work when the weather was bad and the list goes on.

She either didn’t show up for work or would come in at the time she wants to, with lots of excuses. One week she would tell us she can work only mornings, the following .. only weekends.. and then the week after .. not weekends at all. We had tried so hard to accommodate her.. but it still didn’t work out. But we still didn’t fire her but laid her off (outta the goodness of our heart).

And what she did..??? SHE CALLED IMMIGRATION ON US…!!! saying that PB hired an illegal immigrant.. to take over her position. Thereafter, continued coming into our store.. and bad mouthing us in front of our employees whenever we are not in. And yet after 8 yrs.. she still treats me.. like i was the enemy..!! *slap forehead* You tell me lah.. what kinda a WHALE is she..?? if not the “eat human donch even need to spit out bones”.

It really doesn’t make sense at all.. !! and with alot of sadness i am writing this. The tri-county regional school board is slashing jobs. 24 teaching positions and 18 jobs at the board’s office. They are doing this they said to maintain a balanced budget. But the teaching positions are so important.. and they shouldn’t be cut at all. We already know that we are not getting enough teachers.. so why this..?? why can’t we save on “other” things.. and not this..?? Does the 24 teaching positions cost 3 million..?? How is this gonna affect our children..? your children..??

Please tell me why do ppl shop and thinks that they are not passing their germs to you .. just by talking to you ..?? We have some customers.. who are like that Hacking away.. and had the courtesy to tell PB that she wasn’t gonna cough at him.. and pass the germs to him.. and carried on talking for the next 5 mins.. at the counter..!! *slap forehead* ..!! IT’S THE WATER IN THIS TOWN..!!

I read on the local papers today.. about how everyone wanted a say in where the new building of The Yarc should be. I know there must be more important issues to talk about .. than The Yarc.. ! how come no one is questioning the enormous amount of money spent on the court house. and the new municipality building..?? How come there is no transparency there..?? Where is the money coming and going..?? Pushing the focus to The Yarc to me seems more like a cover up and i certainly give up.

The Town Councillors set the tax rate for the town… a few days ago. And they justify the increase for commercial rate because it is to offset the declining business occupancy tax which the province is phasing out. But when would it be out..?? They never tell us about it.. yet they want the increase already.  JOY..!

We opened the store late as usual. We blamed it on the kid.. but actually we are quite the slacker too. Anyhow, when our car turned into the carpark.. we saw some customers already waiting outside the store.. so the man quickly parked and rushed into the store. Opened the store.. and I even went to the extend to apologize to the customers who came in after.. and guess what he wanted. He wants to know if he can use our WASHROOM..!!!!!

I cannot believed it..!! there were other stores that were opened on Main Street, there were 4 eateries that are sure to have a washroom .. but he waited for our store .. to be opened..to take a DUMP..!! *roll my eyes*. Well .. i’m sure you know my answer to that question.

Sometimes I really gotta wonder if it is really the town water or what.. that makes ppl stupid in this town. Customer came in as soon as we opened, asked if there was anyway he could trade in his NHL 2003 for another game. “slap my forehead”. In which the man replied we don’t do one to one trade (else how to eat rice) and that NHL 2003 isn’t even worth any money because these goes into our $5 bin .. in which he asked.. if he could get $5 for it… *slap forehead again*. How can ppl be so STUPID..!!! we sell them for $5 and pay $5 for it.. on top of the game would prolly never be sold…??? I officially declared that the water is not fit for drinking .. ppl in this town gets stupid..!

We do special orders for our customers in this town.. and we do ask for a $10.00 deposit .. when we do these special orders that no one in town . .would do. Most times .. we have no problem.. with ppl picking up their stuff. .at others.. we can be stuck with a $70.00 game .. for so long.. we give them away for charity purpose.

Ppl thinks that .. if they forfeit their $10 deposit.. they already paid us for the profit .. we make from the games.. but they forget that if we don’t sell it off by a certain time. . the value of the game turns into those special bin prices after a few months. We lose more than we make most times.. when someone is irresponsible. And we even explained it to them. .when they do special orders. I really don’t know what else we can do .. to prevent losses on our end. Any suggestions..??

Yes.. they come, they buy and they come back in a week or so.. and try to sell the same thing back to you .. and with a little more. More annoying than anything.. when you see this happening .. a few times a week, and those that expects almost the same amount of money back.. for what they had paid for it.. now that is even more irritating..!

This town is full of them.. and it is strange that they expect us take it back.. when our babysitter who had bought a guitar.. during Christmas.. and the sides were stripped  ..  a week later .. she didn’t get any replacement, coz’ the music shop owner said, it wasn’t real leather .. and to be expected.  Maybe we are too nice eh..!!

It is scary to me.. that the local newspaper and the radio news only reports things that generally does not need alot of thinking nor an opinion from anyone. It is almost to me like China. Only report the good. .and do away with the bad. Anything that might get opposed or objected by the community are never ever posted up in time. It is an awful feeling if you ask me. I am not into politics but I wanna be kept abreast of what’s going on.. and this maybe because of 2 reasons. One because we are business owners.. and two . .which is most important.. i’m a mother. I want to be sure that my daughter has a fair chance here else why stay here..??

Here we thought we won’t have to put anymore oil into the store’s furnace no more for the year .. and guess what..?? we had bad weather again. So the man called the oil man.. and told him.. “it’s not for me.. it’s for the women folks”! Yes.. yes.. i’m a wuss..!! but can you blame me.. ?? someone who comes from a place that is summer everyday. Someone who can’t get enough of the air-con.

What a huge change .. everyone who comes into the store asked me. Oh .. initially they think i come from China.. muahhahahahahhaahha!!! and when i tell them that China, Beijing is 7 – 8hrs away from where i am from originally.. they then understand it a little better. Even though my customers all thinks that I should be Canadianized by now.. since i’ve been here for 8 yrs.. i still cannot help but missed those sunny days at work and where one would be thought crazy to wear stockings to work.

Yes.. guess again..! we haven’t seen the $20 for the used monitor yet.. and if you asked me.. i’ll tell you .. i’m not freaking surprised at all. This town is full of people who would just try and try again .. and again. .to take advantage of you any which way they can. For a mere $20 .. i would be rather ashamed.. not to pay up, afterall he had been a regular for ages. So guess again..??