Frye’s Trip
Yesterday Kelsy and I took our bikes to run errands to the bank and to Frye’s Electronics to buy some solder accessories. I purchased a MintyBoost Kit to keep my phone charged during our upcoming bike ride.
Fry’s is always a place of wonder, with untold possibilities sitting on it’s shelves. Our local Fry’s is science fiction themed. The main entrance hides below a Flying Saucer that looks like it has crash landed into the building. Inside the store, a jeep laser beamed in two greets shoppers. This particular day, we had no trouble finding most of the parts I needed to build the boost. The only thing they didn’t have was a “third hand”, clips on reticulated arms to hold whatever you need while you melt solder onto it. Anyways, we had most of what we needed and decided to check out, only to find we’d have a half hour wait to check out.
Instead of waiting, we left our merchandise in the top basket of a stack near the door, and road to the nearest “The Shack”. We lucked out, they had an appropriate third hand holder, but their batteries and other accessories were much more expensive. At this point, we got the third hand and rode home. Since Fry’s doesn’t close till nine, we’d go back later.
Later came, and we went back to Fry’s. Kelsy and I psyched ourselves up to get all the parts. We made a game plan and mapped out our routes. Once we got inside the store, on a whim I checked the basket we had left everything in and found that no one had disturbed it. We grabbed the basket and checked out, if only all shopping could be that easy.
The one fly in my Minty Boost ointment is that, apparently, Altoids (now owned by the Wrigley company) has discontinued making their gum. The same gum that the Minty Boost kit expects you to use for the case of their charger. So, now I can still put everything together, and it should work, but I still have to figure out how I’m going to keep all the pieces together on the ride.
