As we're wondering the isles we see an isle sign that says floppy and zip drives (go figure one isle with the 2 things I need) at least I thought, except it turns out that sign was probably made 10 years ago and hasn't been updated since. The isle was filled mostly with CD/DVD drives and blank CDs/DVDs. in the corner we see one (JUST ONE) removable floppy drive and it was a return! I figure that's ok, I'll take it! (I'm kinda desperate at this point).
Meanwhile I hear someone behind us say "hey" we turn around and it's one of my co-workers (an engineer). It turned out he was there to buy some blank DVDs. I tell him that I'm doing a little cleaning and found some old zip disks, and he says "oh one of those, you're doing this now? I did that 10 years ago." well I knew he'd say something snarky, I deserved it, but it still bothers me that Fry's didn't have them. So I see a free worker in the isle (which is rare usually most of the workers are busy) so I decide to ask him if they have any zip drives. He must have been a lot younger than he looked (the suit threw me off) He looked at me puzzled and said "zip drive? I don't know what that is..." I started to explain, "it's like a floppy only it holds more, it's kinda old..." then I just cut myself off and said "it's ok, you know what's weird is that the isle sign says floppy and zip disks...whatever I'm sure you don't have them".
The whole drive home I was annoyed...why would they have an isle sign for something that the store no longer carries or ever plans on carrying. Ugh. I am getting old.
