OH NO! RADIOSHACK!!!

A blonde goes to Radio Shack electronics store and asks to buy this particular ‘TV’. The shopkeeper replies “No” so she goes home and dyes her hair brown. She goes back the next day and tries to buy that TV again. The shopkeeper again says “No” you are the blonde from yesterday. So the blond goes home and dyes her hair black then heads back to the shop two weeks later and says can “I buy that ‘TV?”. The shopkeeper says: “No you’re that blonde from two weeks ago!” She asks how he can tell and he replies: ”Its not a TV. It’s a microwave”.

The times they are a changing, and like everything else time will march on.

TLW (The Little Woman) was in great despair recently by the news that Radio Shack, that long time allie of hers was going the way of other large companies of the past; out of business.

When we put in our first complicated entertainment system in our den, with the introduction of a ‘box’ from the cable company, we went to Radio Shack, and the geeks they employed gave us a detailed map of how to do it, and it was a seamless, flawless transition from the hum-drum to the new world of technology.

It was one Sunday morning and we purchased TIVO, you remember TIVO? It was the rage of the day, everyone said it was great you should get it, and so we did. We bought the thing, took it out of the box and immediately knew; we were too dumb to figure it out. So TLW, being not so dumb decided to go to Radio Shack for the parts we needed and the advice if there was any. There happened to be two teenagers who were thrown out of their homes and landed in Radio Shack, who drew up a schematic on yellow ruled paper detailing how to put this whole mess together.

It was a special moment, we put together a complicated array of wires and connections, filled with the knowledge that Radio Shack teenagers would guide us through, without my swearing and cursing other than getting up and down from a sore back, life was wonderful.

And so over the years, as we progressed through the new technologies, the PC to TV component used to play my computer onto my television, the cell-phone, and countless other electronic devices, it was Radio Shack who came to our rescue, since no teenager lived with us.

I will miss you old friend, yes, you made TLW happy, and if she was happy, it meant she wasn’t asking me for help.

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