One of the things that bothered me more than people trying to get something cheaper than they should would be people who stole.

When we got the DSS systems in, they were fairly new. Most of the people who bought them were the typical early adopters. And a few thieves I suppose. Ya see, our in store units got *every* channel. A choice few people figured that if they swiped the access card from ours, and slapped it in ours, they would get all the channels we got.

If you know anything about DSS units, you know how many things are wrong with that. If you don't know, I can't begin to tell you how stupid those people were.

The thing that really bothered me was the 2 weeks or so we had to wait for replacement cards. So for 2 weeks, I couldn't sell DSSes. Not only did they pay well, but they were easy sales. So this would royally piss me off.

So one day, I figure I'd just seal the little door that closes over the access card slot. If they can't open it, they can't steal the card. Or so my theory went...

So I head on down to hardware and grab a bottle of industrial strength super glue. And I enlist the help of one of our cashiers. And I gather everything I need, and head over to the unit. I grab the bottle, get everything into position, and start to squeeze.

No glue. Which was weird, cos it was a new bottle. So I squeeze harder, and I feel the glue start to give. So I figure I'm almost home. And I give it a good squeeze.

And the back of the glue flew off, and glue shot straight up into the air and onto the ceiling, where it then splattered and fell down in a nice umbrella pattern into our hair and onto our clothes.

Ya see, you had to poke a hole in the front of the glue. I didn't know this.

Anyhow, a second, properly opened bottle, did seal the unit pretty well. So I then went on a repair binge, and started repairing fixtures that were broken (and annoying me).

One thing that really bothered me was this loose piece of wood trim on top of a cabinet. So I glued it up, lots of glue in fact, and smashed the wood down onto the cabinet as hard as I could (to seat it).

The next few minutes were absolute agony, as the glue really hurt when it sealed my eye shut. Thank god the eye wash station was only a 30 second sprint. Unfortunately it's hard to get through doors when one eye is sealed shut and the other is tearing and you're twitching.

Ever since then I've given super glue the respect it's due. Powerful stuff.