Best Buy

So, last week I noticed my server was down. I get home and discover it worked just fine. It was the DSL modem.
So the next day, I went to Best Buy to buy a DSL modem. I went to the networking section and started looking. No luck. I end up standing in front of the cabel modems, slightly perplexed.
A worker comes up and asks if he can help me. I say “yes, I need a DSL modem”. He looks at me like I am an idiot, reaches in front of me and grabs the box in front of me.
“Here you go a modem.”

I look at him and say “No that’s a Cable Modem. I need a DSL Modem.” He looks at me like I am making up that word. He sighs and turns the box over (where they often have diagrams). Then he says in a slow loud voice and he points to the diagram. “Your connection goes into the little round hole, right here.” While he is talking he makes a small round sign with his little fingers and his voice goes up an octive when he says little round hole.

I wait a sec, then say “No, I need a DSL modem, it uses a RJ-11 jack, a large square jack just a little bit bigger than a phone jack.” I also make a square shape and raise my voice.

He stares at me then walked over to a router. Grabs a box and turns it over and points to where the big round square hole goes. I say “No that’s a router. A router takes the internet access and provides several ports to connect more computers to the internet.” I point to the box that indicated Cable/DSL Modem. That is where the the modem plug into it. I need a DSL Modem.”

At this point his 8 feet tall coworker arrives, rips the router out of his hand and says to the guy, “You need to be more aware of your f*cking environment. She needs a f*cking DSL modem.”

He takes me to the DSL modems, answers all my questions and then leaves me alone. I see him wander back to his coworker and yell at him some more.

Sadly that modem didn’t work. My ISP sent me a new one, plugged it in and it worked just fine. God Bless the Internet.