Anti-Target

Yes, I never thought I'd say this, but I'm very nearly anti-Target. My former favorite store. But they've disappointed me one too many times, I think. You see, we've gone to register three times, and each time they've been out of their little scanner guns. Apparently they only have two. Last time I spoke to a manager, by chance, asking him when the best time to come would be (we'd been on two Tuesdays and a Saturday), seeing as we were making the 25-minute trip specifically for that purpose. He told me that next time I should call and see if there was a gun available, and if there was, I could tell them that he said it was okay for them to hold it for me. So today I did just that. And when we showed up--you guessed it, no gun. I was beyond frustrated. We looked at some other stuff for 15-20 mintues, hoping one would turn up, but no luck. So Jon went to wait in the car, and I asked for a manager to share my frustration (I was very rational, I'll have you know). She explained that they normally have 6 scanners, but 4 were in the shop (that's great, but that doesn't explain why someone gave away my reserved scanner), and blah blah blah. Then she managed to dig up a "spare" in the office after 20 minutes of searching. By then all of the glee an excitement was gone, and I quickly scanned some items in about 15 minutes and met Jon in the car. I'm mad because they stole my magical experience.