This story might be confusing at first, but in many ways it sums up the randomness of retail. It all starts with Bling Bling at Circuit City. I can’t remember his real name now. I think it was Ronny, but everyone knew him as Bling Bling.
He was from Brooklyn and liked flashy jewelry so I guess the guys just started calling him that. Bling Bling had transferred to a different store to be closer to family. I never really talked to him very much because I was in the computer dept. and he was in TVs.
It was his last day at our location when everything went down.I was working my section when a man entered the store. He walked up asked me if we had a USB-to-Ethernet adapter.
I took the man straight to the section of the store where the product was located. My first impression was that the man was clean cut and well dressed. All that changed quickly. It turned out that the item he wanted was out of stock, so I kindly told him we were out and that Best Buy might have it. He listened to me and seemed fine with my reply.
As he walked away I noticed something was amiss. What I had thought was a sharp-dressed man was wearing white sneakers with very dirty black slacks. None of this made much of an impression on me until what happened next.
As Mister Man left the store he started pushing over signs. When he got to the main doors, instead of waiting for them to open he pushed them off the tracks. While this is going on everyone is looking at me wondering what I said to the guy to set him off. While I tried to explain that nothing out of ordinary had happened we suddenly heard a car burning rubber out in the parking lot.
Mister Man had jumped into his truck,laid into the gas, and there was smoke piling up in the parking lot as he burned out. People out in the parking lot called the cops and wrote down his license plate. This is where Bling Bling comes into the story.
When the maniac was driving out of the parking lot dragster style he hit Bling Bling’s car and ripped the bumper off. That’s some pretty terrible luck and things only got worse. Fifteen minutes later the cops finally arrived. They talked to Bling Bling about his car and it turned out that he didn’t have car insurance. Oops! That’s against the law, so the cops gave him a ticket. Talk about a tough day at the office. Who knows if the cops ever found the crazy man? I’ve often wondered what it was that set him off. Did I say something wrong?
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