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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 104 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (23 children)

My favorite part of the 30 day dumb phone challenge I did recently: I couldn't install your crappy app even if I wanted to.

A little over halfway through the challenge, was paying for my order at a local eatery, and the cashier started plugging their new app and rewards points and digital coupons and shit. I was like "I'm gonna stop you right there: flip phone." and pulled it out of my pocket and brandished it like I was the sheriff of Luddite-ville.

Kinda like this, but "Flip phone!"

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 59 points 16 hours ago (20 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah........try that in CVS.

"No no, I'd rather NOT have a reciept that's 3 miles long, because I bought a candy bar....."

But we already cut down 3 trees just for you!

"No."

"Oh, you're taking this irrelevant slip of paper! We have armed guards to make sure you do! There is a world war 2 tank outside that will crush you, and blow up your car! I know it's not really a war worthy tank, and in that sense it's obsolete, but it can still more than handle your toyota geo. Now then....take....the....reciept!

NEVER!!!!

GUARDS!!!!

And then a Kill Bill-esque fight scene breaks out. You know, like when she fought the crazy 88s. Except instead of a group of ninjas headed by a 14 year old Japanese girl, it's a group of swat team members headed by a 17 year old CVS register worker wearing a red CVS vest that he uses as a choking hazard on you in the fight.

Your goal is to dodge bullets, matrix style, while disarming one guard to shoot the rest of the guards dead, so you can fight this CVS employee one on one, as wave after wave of reinforcements constantly change the dynamic of the battle.

Finally, after defeating all the guards, you return to your car to return home, and as you make your turn onto the main road, thats when you see it. A world war 2 era tank firing mortors at you, as you're forced to weave all over the road. Other cars exploding, you're all over the road, a helicopter has joined the chase. Suddenly the helicopter is firing air to surface missles, and as you dodge them, they blow up the tank.

The helicopter then lands right in front of you on the highway. As you prepare for the final battle, the door opens it's your wife. You both embrace, and take off in the helicopter. Forever on the lamb. Always running from the threat of CVS employees that can strike at any time.

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

What on earth are you people talking about?

I go to CVS all the time for random things, I've never once been pushed to use an app, nor have I ever encountered anyone that is legitimately pushing you to do anything after a simple no.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Really? You never used kung-fu to disarm swat teams, killing dozens with their own guns, while never taking damage yourself? You never sped through your local streets as tanks shot mortors at your toyota geo?

You're telling me your wife never saved you with rockets fired from a helicopter in a high speed highway chase?

Yeah........you didn't read a single sentence of the comment you replied to, did you? Aw hell. What makes me think you'll read THIS far into the message??? Tiktok is just what this generation has been needing. An entire generation of kids who don't waste their time reading!

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I don't go to CVS because they make the whole experience exhausting.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

May I introduce you to RadioShack? Where they used to prompt you to sign up for a credit card, ask to record your personal info on a RadioShack loyalty card system (that nobody seems to remember), and one time, the lady asked me to impregnate her. I'm unclear if that was RadioShack policy, or if she was just itching. Either way it was kind of messed up, because I was 14. I looked and sounded older, but I was 14. She was like 30ish.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago

Gonna just leave us hanging on this one?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I stopped going to Radio Shack when they made purchasing a hassle too. Loved them as a kid in the 80s when I was doing build your own electronics.

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