How Rude!

Yesterday I had to run to Best Buy to pick up a Christmas gift for my hubby. The new Pirates movie came out on DVD and Best Buy was offering an extra free DVD with it, so I wanted to get there before they were gone. The store was extraordinarily busy for 10 Am on a Tuesday, I'm sure because of the new release. The line probably had 50 or 60 people in it when I got in line. A very pregnant woman and several of her relatives, including her husband, and two young children (3 and 4 or so) were with them as well. From the momnet they got in line, the woman started griping. How come there aren't more registers open, this is stupid, this is riduculous, on and on and on. While Best Buy may have been unprepared, it was a weekday morning. Many of their workers are teenagers, so how are they supposed to staff an extra busy weekday morning? PLUS, the line moved very quickly. I think I was out of there in 30 minutes total and that included looking at stuff. While they were standing in line, the husband was talking about how many of the moives and freebies he was getting so he could sell them on EBay and how many of the TMX Elmo's he had bought at Target that day to sell and how many PS3's he had bought to sell. Someone in their party made a comment about people who really wanted those items having to pay a lot of money for them since people like him were buying them all up and the woman said "Who cares. if they wanted them badly enough, they should have waited in line like we did. Now we'll make money off of their stupidtiy". Wow! A few minutes later her girls were running screaming through the store, climbing on displays and shelving. She said "Oh, well, let them do it. Iit serves Best Buy right for making us wait in such a long line." The final thing was that they had a stack of DVD's that they dropped. They picked them up and set them on a shelf and sent a member of their party to grab more becuase "now those are all gong to be scratched". I'm just appaled at the behavior of these people. Really. Where are common courtesy and manners? If you go out shopping in December, expect lines. Even if there are lines, being grumpy about it does not make them move any faster. Allowing your children to be destructive does not make the store open another register and all that allowing your child to break things and putting back all those DVD's you dropped does is make prices higher for everyone. Oh, but that's okay becuase you'll have plenty of money since you'll be selling all the hot toys you managed to buy to people who really want them for their kids at a really high price. Merry Christmas!