Town On Tourism

I wrote about the Tourism Session scheduled this month and it was held today. We didn’t even planned to attend because we knew from the start that it is gonna come to naught. As i am typing this right now, there is a group of teenagers making so much din opposite our store and watcha gonna do about it..?? No one cares.. and no one is willing to take a step forward to look at the real problems downtown is facing.

Customers who attended the meeting said that there was no outcome.. and the mayor didn’t wait for the meeting to be over.. and slipped out the back door. NICE..! i think all those that depends on tourism to keep them afloat .. should prolly forget about the idea. A new president was elected too.. for the ppl who organized the Seafest here annually. I suspect he was elected because he was the one in charge of the bike rally that we had during summer. It was a success for the most part but i can assure you, we didn’t make a cent out of those bikers who came to town. So did it helped us. Absolutely no..! I just hope that the rest of the town did benefit from it though.

Something needs to be done for a major turnaround. By building a new municipality building for $4 – 5 million bucks just ain’t gonna do it. While you enjoy the new building a few year down the road, we can kiss downtown goodbye.

Super VHS Cord

Owning an electronic store can sometimes bring you some funny questions from customers. Just a few days ago, someone came into the store.. to ask if I was from and i had told him, I’m from Canada.. just so he can stop asking me more questions .. because .. i really didn’t wanna entertain him since i was alone in the store. PB had gone home with the brat and Keegan. But he went on and one.. and spoke to me in Tagalog as if i was a Filipino’s..!! Donch get me wrong.. i love my filipino friends.. but i had already told him.. i’m from Canada right..?? and I’m a Chinese..! You know.. when you just wanna roll your eyes.. and slap your forehead.. when something like that happens..?? ya.. that kinda feeling.

And then he bargain for the VHS movie price and said.. he only had $3.57 when i told him the movies were at $4.56. And the best part of everything is .. he asked if we had Super VHS Cord..?? What IS that…?? Have you heard about a Super VHS cord..?? So i asked PB when he came back.. and we are guessing he wanted a S-Video cord..?? To be honest.. some customers.. you just wanna rid off.. so bad.. if you know what i mean. Half drunk and smelling of pot sure doesn’t make me feel good at all.

Stolen & Recovered

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This is what the dumb ass thief stole from our store..! yes.. BLANK CASSETTE CDs.. that has absolutely no “black” market value whatsoever. If he had brought this to the town drug dealer.. in exchange for some dope.. he would prolly have gotten beaten up..! Come to think of it.. we prolly saved him.. by catching him in the act.

Moral of the story.. never STEAL from the CRAZY CHINESE WOMAN ..!! Else yer’ll end up have your pictures splashed all over the web..! muahahhahaha!!

ShopLifter Finale

Well.. like I said earlier .. we never thought about pressing charges.. coz’ it is just not worth the effort for $20.00 worth of things stolen. The cop got our blank cassettes back.. the thief was given a property protection act and warned not to come back into our store again. We have his pictures posted on the wall of shame .. and him in action on the world wide web and on the store’s website.

And it has been a joke for us and some regular customers since yesterday.. and i made sure to tell everyone about it.. so that we can get a good laugh.. outta it.. and the kids that comes into our store.. they know better.

Shoplifter Caught At OUR Store – Part 2

Cont’d from Part I

PB came back shortly .. and i told him what happened. After feeding the brat lunch, he went to the office to look at the camera files, came up. .and told me .. yes.. the stupid black thief did indeed steal a box of blank empty cassettes. Yes.. it is BLANK EMPTY CASSETTES. Now how stupid is that.. i ask you ..?? In this day and time.. who would be using blank empty cassettes..??

We donch know to be pissed or to laugh it off .. because boy.. must he be stupid.. or something else….!! PB did call the cops .. because he didn’t want the stupid thief to think that he got away with it.. even though we had no intention about pressing charges. The cops called back.. and since we didn’t have the thief in holding.. he said.. he was gonna come a little later.. to look at our security camera.

A couple of hours later.. Keegan first saw the stupid thief walk by our store .. and PB went out of the store.. to see if it was really the thief .. and what good timing.. the cops came. PB said to the cops .. “blue jacket .. black guy” .. cop turned around.. and nabbed the stupid thief at the carpark.

Shoplifter Caught At OUR Store

Some excitement we had yesterday. But the moral of my story is .. do not steal from THE CRAZY CHINESE WOMAN .. else.. your picture will be on the World Wide Web and a movie of you in action .. plus a glorified picture at our store.

Yes.. yesterday we had a shoplifter at our store. He had actually come into our store just after we opened.. and had brought up a game asking me to reserve it for him.. and that his g/f “Emily” was gonna come in to rent it for him. Two hours later.. he came back.. and i was very busy serving customers on my own.. because PB and Chloe had gone to get lunch. Stupid thief was acting suspiciously and i was watching him from the corner of my eye.. but because the shelves were tall.. i can’t see anything.. unless i turned on the security camera on the computer, which i didn’t .. because i didn’t think he would be so stupid.. since there were pictures of shoplifters where he was standing.. already indicating to his stupid black ass.. that we have security camera.

Anyhow.. he left after abit.. and after serving the last customer.. i walked around the store.. and checked all my items .. and found that a box of blank cassette tapes were missing. But i wasn’t sure.. because .. sometimes.. PB loves to move things around.. without even knowing where he had placed them. So i waited for PB to come back….

To be cont’d …

Confrontation & I Do Not Do Well

I realized that i do not do well with confrontation..! it shakes me up a little, even if it is only on the phone. I called a customer on my late list.. telling her .. that her movie wasn’t back.. and she was pretty indignant about having dropped it off.. already.. when in the first place.. she couldn’t even remember what the movie was.. when i told her the name. She said.. she won’t rent from us again.. and i could send her to the collections if i wanted too, even though i told her I had already double checked and the movie wasn’t in at all.

She said to me.. “well you better check again..!” and that got me really worked up.. and i said.. ok.. i’ll see you in collections then! and hung up. I was pretty upset..! but i went to check another time.. for the movie all over the store.. and true enough.. it was slotted in another slot .. not the right one.

Boy..!! is this embarrassing or what..!! now that made me even more upset..!! now i’ll have to call and apologized..! bummer..!!

This Is A Freaking Joke!

Once again this town has got geniuses running it..! You just wouldn’t believe .. how “smart” they are..!!

They are changing the region to be known as “Yarmouth and Acadian Shores Travelway” to give hope to the worst ever tourism season of the century. Different name in all their brochures but the same kinda stuff.. and this will boost tourism and the economy of a fast failing town..???!!!?? GEEEEENNNIUUUUSSSS..!!!!

These ppl are sitting on their brains for far too long, and they must be on crack to think that changing the names in brochures, advertisement and thus spending another 10K to change the names on these brochures and advertisement.. and hire someone (prolly someone’s kid in advertising who is in the council) to reword another 50 words on the brochures .. for a few thousand dollars. How is it gonna help this town.. and tourism here..?? GENIUUUSESSS..!!!