TECHNOLOGY | HUMOR

A Trip to Best Buy Made Me Feel Irrelevant

I wish I had a time machine

Beam me up Scotty, I’m going on a trip to a galaxy far, far away, to another dimension of sight and sound.

I went to Best Buy to get new speakers installed in my Mazda by the Geek Squad. I hadn’t had the car long when they became distorted. I don’t think I blew them out listening to Barry White. I’m sure it was whoever had the car before me. It would take about an hour, so I decided to browse.

When I opened the heavy metal door from the Geek Squad garage and stepped into the warm business, I felt like I’d been transported to the future. It didn’t look anything like the Best Buy I remembered.

It’s funny how our memory works. We hold the images from our past that were most prevalent. For me, the memories of Best Buy were from the 90s. Then, Best Buy was the hot spot for my movie and music needs. There were aisles dedicated to DVDs and CDs — no albums in sight. Now there is a small display of albums and no DVDs or CDs.

How times have changed and it’s true that what goes around, comes around again, or at least that’s the case with albums. I’m still waiting for shag carpet, disco, and the mullet to make a comeback.