I gots no will power when it comes to toys

I would like to start of this post by defending my self against the title of this post. I have plenty of will power. I do, I can prove it. I think it takes a tremendous amount of will power to travel 5 hours to Chicago every weekend, for three years, to get an MBA. I think going to family functions and keeping my mouth shut when the long-haired, mouth-breathing hippies start waxing liberal takes exceptional will power. These are just two instances in my life where I have demonstrated a powerful will.

This post would not make sense unless I talked about a situation where I have no will power: toys. Now, I don't mean Transformers or G.I. Joe action figures (if they still made them right, I'd probably buy some); no people, I am talking about consumer electronics. If you read my previous post, you will know I was robbed. They took my TV, and all of my other electronic entertainment devices. After talking to the people, who would talk to me, at State Farm; I was told that it would be three more weeks before I got anything replaced.

So I decided to go to Best Buy and look at some TVs, and TVs only. This is where the story turns bad. I know that State Farm is only going to reimburse me so much for my TV, so I have to buy a reasonable one. And I know that State Farm has tie-ins with all those places, so they can get me a good deal; so I SHOULD wait. Well, I walked out of Best Buy with a 40" Samsung TV and a Blu-ray DVD player. I think the only reason I didn't buy a an Xbox 360 is that they didn't have any of the ones with an HDMI port in stock.

How did this happen, will I used the admittedly poor justification that Best Buy offered me 36 months no interest and I should get the money from State Farm in the next 36 months. Also, I should be able to payoff any shortfall in that time.

I should feel bad about my self for falling into temptation; but screw it. I got to see Resident Evil: Extinction on Blu-ray. Mila Jolavich (whatever her name is) in high-def, very nice.

I win,

Brian

P.S. I asked the salesman if I should get a Blu-ray player or an HD-DVD player. He said, "Blu-ray." "Why Blu-ray?" I ask. "Because the Adult Entrainment Industry has chosen this as their format," he replies. "Huh?" I reply. To which he replies, "If you take all of the 'G', 'PG', 'PG-13', 'R', and 'NC-17' dvd sales per year, add them together, and multiply by four, that the adults sales per year." I accepted the logic as sound; but how reasonable that the likes of Jenna Jameson and the rest drive the path of technology seems very absurd to me.