Les Bonnes Choses

This afternoon, I went with Rebecca to pick out her mother's day gift: a new digital camera. The reason for the new camera was two-fold: first, she wanted something a little smaller to fit in her purse (her pricey digital SLR camera currently lives in there, and frankly, I have no idea how it still works given the beating it must endure). The second reason is that I read about how there are aftermarket software upgrades you can install on your Canon camera to supe it up (note: I decided on that spelling of 'supe' after realizing that I could figure out no etymology that would make 'soup it up' make any sense at any time in the history of the English language). Rebecca had settled on one of 2 Canon models, but eventually settled on the more expensive one with the better optical zoom. The catch: it's discontinued, and the display camera was the last one they had. I've only ever had good experiences the few times I've purchased open box items, and the thing had been tethered to a cabinet for the last 4 months, so how much abuse could it have gotten? Plus, it's still covered by the same warranty. So with our reservations slipping away, the sales guy used some tool to disconnect the camera from the tether, at which point a really loud alarm went off. It seemed that some other guy had to come over to turn off the alarm, so about 45 seconds passed with this obnoxious alarm going off in the small electronics section of Future Shop. It occurred to me that that would have been the perfect time to swipe some electronics.