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  Move over <ACRONYM TITLE="Bastard Operator From Hell">BOFH</ACRONYM>, here
                                 comes Gord …

> So a kid, around 19, signs up a new account. He decides to rent Sled Storm,
> and then never comes back. Well, ok. Gord left a couple messages to return
> the game, but no luck.
>
> Eventually the young adult phones and says he returned it. Uh-huh … That's
> right.
>
> So Gord forwards the account to collections.
>
> One day a few months later this lady walks in and starts yelling about how
> Gord sent her son to collections and ruined his credit rating so now he
> can't buy a car or stereo or something.
>
> Gord points out the obvious point that he stole a game and is a poor credit
> risk.
>
> Then the mother throws the game on the counter and says that the game is
> now back and I have to fix his credit.
>
> “Ma'am, first off, the game is destroyed. Look at it. Second, I've replaced
> the game already so I don't want it back. Instead, I seek the money for my
> cost on replacing it and the late fees he owed. Third, your son claimed he
> returned it.”
>
> This just sets her off. Something about how it's not her son's fault that
> he stole the game.
>
> “How is it not his fault?”
>
> “Because I brought it back.”
>
> “That excuses the original theft and lying to me?”
>
> “It's not his fault he lied and tried to steal it!”
>
> “Might I ask whose fault it is then?”
>
> Anyway, she starts yelling some more about how her son is never going to
> rent from Gord ever again. Gord points out that was exactly his point and
> that he had already closed the account when it was sent to collections. So
> she stormed out.
>
> The Gord often wonders why people threaten to never come back after they've
> been told never to return.
>

The Acts of Gord, The Book of Annoyances, Chapter 3: With Parents Like This …
[1]

We're up early, and Spring [2] seems facinated with watching Anne of Green
Gables [3] (if only Anne would just shut up!) so I'm surfing the web and I
come across The Acts of Gord [4] who seems to run a gaming store up in Canada
and has chronicled all the stupid people who have come through his store.

I am glad I don't work in retail.

[1] http://www.actsofgord.com/annoy/chapter3.html
[2] http://www.springdew.com/
[3] http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088727
[4] http://www.actsofgord.com/

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