And the Store Has Reached...A New Low

You spend a couple hundred bucks on a piece of technology that is supposed to make your life easier. It doesn't work out how you wanted it to, so you return it. Fair enough. $200 is a lot of money for most of us, especially in our nation's current economic predicament. However, I have yet to encounter a $200 hoola hoop, and yet I have returned three of them over the span of my career with my current employer. Two of those times, the customer simply wanted their money back and was not planning on exchanging it for anything else. Are you freaking kidding me? The customer probably spent more money on gas to get to the store than they got back after returning that stupid piece of plastic that is a sorry excuse for getting your kids to exercise. Side note: It seems kids are getting fatter and fatter these days, and hoola hoops have become better at creating future strippers than shedding childhood weight.
What is the thought process for returning a hoola hoop? At the time of purchase: "Wow, this looks great. I can dance with it, I can...uh....spin around and move my hips....oh and this store has a GREAT return policy if it doesn't perform how I want it to. It's a freakin' hoola hoop! It doesn't water your lawn, take out the trash, get you a beer out of the fridge, nor will it pay your taxes. You put it around you waist, spin your hips in a small circle, and it does what your hips do. How do you buy one of these things and then suddenly decide that $3.99 investment is crippling? Two out of the three times I have returned one of these the excuse was, "It was the wrong size." Did it shrink in the washing machine? Did you remarkably become far-sighted just at the right moment when your eyes were first laid on that scented and brightly colored circle of nightmare? What the hell is wrong with you? Just take your $3.99 and buy yourself a bus pass to the end of the earth, take one more step off the edge and do all of us a favor. Jackass