They keep going and going and going wrong
Whoops. Yesterday kinda slipped right by on me.
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Electrical storage devices better known as batteries have been around for a long bloody time. If some myths are to be believed, the first crude varieties could have been forged thousands of years ago. Regardless, very powerful, sophisticated power-cells are quite common these days. They've even gotten so widely utilized that most conform to a standardization of size and voltage. I can't recall a time in my life where various items in my house did not require an assortment of batteries, usually heavily biased toward AA. So it strikes me as it should be safe to assume that any given person past age seven at the latest would be thoroughly conversant with the function of batteries at an end-user level.
So, why is it that there is a significant percentage of customers who need it explained, carefully and slowly, how to put the batteries into their new sexual novelty?! You would think that folks would already be clued in to look for the marked "+" and "-" symbols or diagrams in the battery compartment. You would assume that unless they were to be installed in tandem, that the cells would most commonly be put in alternating alignment.
There was even a briefly retained member of the staff here who would routinely down-check toys as non-functioning because he would always put the batteries in in one orientation and was too thick-witted to even wonder why he never had a side-by-side battery toy ever test out for him. Like I said, his employment was happily brief.
I fail to comprehend how individuals like that can even function in this society. It's like failing to understand the technology of push buttons. What next?! Will we next be beset with torch-wielding peasants seeking to put to the question those making use of the unholy sorcery known as "elastic?"
Seriously, is there anything more embarrassing than calling the adult store where you bought your new vibrator all charged up with outraged ire because it's broken before you ever got to use it only to have the clerk point out that the batteries were put in incorrectly? "Oh ha ha. I want to insert things into holes in my body, but I lack the technological savvy a five year old exhibits swapping out the batteries in a remote control. No, I'm almost positive I'm trying to put things in the right holes. Thank you very much."
Please tell me I'm not the only person horrified by this.
Electrical storage devices better known as batteries have been around for a long bloody time. If some myths are to be believed, the first crude varieties could have been forged thousands of years ago. Regardless, very powerful, sophisticated power-cells are quite common these days. They've even gotten so widely utilized that most conform to a standardization of size and voltage. I can't recall a time in my life where various items in my house did not require an assortment of batteries, usually heavily biased toward AA. So it strikes me as it should be safe to assume that any given person past age seven at the latest would be thoroughly conversant with the function of batteries at an end-user level.
So, why is it that there is a significant percentage of customers who need it explained, carefully and slowly, how to put the batteries into their new sexual novelty?! You would think that folks would already be clued in to look for the marked "+" and "-" symbols or diagrams in the battery compartment. You would assume that unless they were to be installed in tandem, that the cells would most commonly be put in alternating alignment.
There was even a briefly retained member of the staff here who would routinely down-check toys as non-functioning because he would always put the batteries in in one orientation and was too thick-witted to even wonder why he never had a side-by-side battery toy ever test out for him. Like I said, his employment was happily brief.
I fail to comprehend how individuals like that can even function in this society. It's like failing to understand the technology of push buttons. What next?! Will we next be beset with torch-wielding peasants seeking to put to the question those making use of the unholy sorcery known as "elastic?"
Seriously, is there anything more embarrassing than calling the adult store where you bought your new vibrator all charged up with outraged ire because it's broken before you ever got to use it only to have the clerk point out that the batteries were put in incorrectly? "Oh ha ha. I want to insert things into holes in my body, but I lack the technological savvy a five year old exhibits swapping out the batteries in a remote control. No, I'm almost positive I'm trying to put things in the right holes. Thank you very much."
Please tell me I'm not the only person horrified by this.
posted by Lanius at 8:23 PM
1 Comments:
No, you are not the only person horrified by this. How do these people manage to breed?
xx Dee
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