Amusing story from Futureshop

[richteer]

I was in Futueshop last night here in Kelowna, buying a slipcase for my laptop. I had a few minutes to kill so I wandered over to the Blu-ray section. Next to me was some poor sap flicking through the HD DVDs. I asked him if he knew he was looking at HD DVDs, and mentioned that DVDs were over there. The guy says he knows, and it's HD DVDs he's interested in.

I told him about the war being over, after Warner and everyone else, including Toshiba, throwing in the towel. He looked at me sheepishly and said "yeah, I know. I bought my HD DVD player six months ago". "Oh" says I, trying to hide my mirth.

At the checkout I phoned my wife and relayed to her what had just happened. The guy in front of me turned round to look at me and started chuckling. We exchanged a few pleasantaries about how dumb the other guys was, and concluded that he was probably a misinformed cheapskate. :-)