danatheb ([info]danatheb) wrote,

I LOVE Amazon!

You all know the "gold box" function they have, right?  Where they, presumably try and base what they offer you on things you've purchased in the past?  I have never, in all my years of using Amazon, ever purchased anything from my gold box (the only thing I've even been tempted to get is a Prada purse, and it's always gone by the time I clicked  save), so I don't look at it but once every couple months, but today I was sort of bored, and decided I would.  The first offer I got was for a giant box of Prilosec.  Weird beginning, but okay.  The next 9 offers were:

2.  The Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Workbook: Your Program for Regaining Cognitive Function & Overcoming Emotional Pain (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

3.   Head Injury: The Facts

4.   Coping with Mild, Traumatic Brain Injury

5.   Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury   

6.   In Search of Wings: A Journey Back from Traumatic Brain Injury

8.  Smile and Jump High! the True Story of Overcoming a Traumatic Brain Injury   

9.  Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury : Devastation, Hope, and Healing   

10.  Neurophsychological Assessment


Now I understand that I've purchased some random books from them about pretty horrible topics, because I LOVE THEM, but why are they just assuming I've suffered brain injury!?!  Can't a person simply ENJOY READING about TBIs without having had one?!  You know what ASSUMING does, Amazon, DON'T YOU?!?!    That's right! It makes an ASS out of U and ME.

(mostly me)

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[info]drgnflydreaming

October 18 2006, 18:49:42 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you for my first laugh of the day!

[info]mick_danger

October 18 2006, 19:43:38 UTC 5 years ago

Hm are you SURE that you weren't abducted by aliens and suffered a horrifying brain injury during the escape?

[info]lisa_e_is_me

October 18 2006, 20:09:11 UTC 5 years ago

Perhaps Amazon knows something that you don't. Maybe you are too brain injured to remember the brain injury of which they think you have suffered? All I'm saying is that you might want to listen to what Amazon is saying, because the box is, after all, GOLD!

[info]danatheb

October 18 2006, 20:42:08 UTC 5 years ago

HAH, so the box is telling me to STAY GOLD, despite my massive head wound that was SO TRAUMATIC I don't even remember getting it! Rule!!!

[info]lisa_e_is_me

October 18 2006, 20:52:14 UTC 5 years ago

Exactly!

[info]nellymom

October 19 2006, 00:44:29 UTC 5 years ago

They always offer me an interesting array of computer programming books (I bought one for my husband three years ago) and toys (kids). Which I helpfully ignore.

[info]pegkitty

October 19 2006, 17:42:37 UTC 5 years ago

Apparently I love Dilbert, need to lose weight, have scummy teeth and should own "Home Alone" on VHS.
HOME ALONE????

[info]danatheb

October 19 2006, 18:19:24 UTC 5 years ago

Doesn't EVERYONE get a kindly chuckle out of Home Alone?!?!?!

[info]pegkitty

October 19 2006, 18:23:10 UTC 5 years ago

Well, of course, but frankly, I don't need to OWN it. And what makes Amazon think I wouldn't enjoy the enhanced DVD version, huh?

I do love Dilbert though. But my teeth are fine.

Anonymous

October 23 2006, 03:11:05 UTC 5 years ago

If you had lived on Chicago's north shore (where they filmed "Home Alone") you'd see it for the documentary that it is.
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