My coworker Jacob sold me his X-Box, together with several controllers, games and an HDTV connector cable. As Broos can irritatedly attest, my TV has but one plug thinger pooking out of it. So Sunday I set out in quest for a regular X-Box plugger-in cable.

First stop: Best Buy. It's pretty close to my apartment and I've had good experiences with them since moving to San Diego. As I look at the array of cables, controllers and peripherals for the X-Box, an employee stops and asks what I need. I explain that I'm looking for a regular cable since I only have the HDTV one and I want to hook the X-Box up. He glances at the shelves then says, "Let's go see if one's been returned; there aren't any out here."

I follow him to the return counter where he looks through the display of goods and says sadly, "Nope. None here, either."

"Rats. And I really need a plain cable since I can't plug the one I have into my TV."

Best Buy Dude perks up and announces cheerfully, "Well, we do have HDTVs in stock!"

That's the best up-sell line I've ever heard. :D I laughed so hard he started laughing with me.

In the end, I found my plain cable at Fry's and returned home to play KotOR 2, which I'm borrowing from Joe. You may know him as SimSlayer Joe :) He owes me! :)