Deadlines

Today was one of those days. I decided that I need to get the stuff to connect the laptop the HDMI TV that we have. I got to Best-buy since I have these promotion coupons from them. I thought that I knew what I needed to buy, but them I get confused as soon as I see all of the cables there. I go to the help desk and have to wait for some time for some one to help me, since the lady who was to help me has no clue about what I am talking about. Finally after a huge amount waiting and patience, I get this lady to assist me. I tell her my requirement and she takes me to the product category and gives me what I need. I am happy, go to the check out and get the lady there to help me with the purchase. Firstly she cannot give me the discount that I wanted from the reward zone card. I ask her if she can apply it for me, no she can't. So now I ask her if it can be printed here in the store: no that is not possible. I am so pissed with the service, that I leave the product and return home. But then after a while I am thinking that I do want that product and it would be nice to get something like that since it will make my life easier and I will be finally able to use the TV that has been just sitting her ever since it came from California. So I finally decide to print the reward zone certificates and leave for the store. I again get the lady to help and I get the product. This time it seamlessly goes through the process and I am home.

On reaching home I realize that I cannot find the connection cord for the TV!! So now I spend like an hour to find it, I find it and connect everything: to my surprise she gave me the wrong thing! It does not connect to my computer. Now I am left with no choice, but to return back to the store, a bit annoyed and very much frustrated. I explain to them the problem, the person at the counter has the nerve to ask me if I am sure the product does not fit. I am like: this is the third time I have come to this store and you expect me to be having a joy ride and telling you that it does not fit. I asked him to check it out with the Macbooks they have in the store. He sends to another rep and he confirms it with me. It was the wrong product. And to my frustration they did not even have the replacement piece for it. So here I am trying to get something done and all he has to tell me is that they do not have the product. He refers me down to the Apple store, but also adds the disclaimer that it might not be available there too, since they also get accessories late.

So I return the product and come back home. I have everything except that one piece of cable which would connect my Macbook to the TV!! These are the times when I cannot understand why apple needs to do everything so specifically different. If like others it had made the same kind of connection then at least it would not be so difficult each time one tries to connect something to a different appliance.

I always believed that being tenacious and being persistent helps. But I guess not all the time. It has been a tough call. I let a lot of things slide out of my schedule so that I could get this one thing done properly: and yet it is still not done and I have a lot of other tasks that needed to be completed today. Now not only do I not have the time, but at the same time, my mood is so bad that I do not even want to complete the task today. I guess one also needs to add another deadline to every task, the deadline of completing it or the the deadline of trying for something. One can spend a lifetime trying to complete something, but in the end one needs to weight if spending that much time was really worth the effort or not.