Why I am the greatest husband slash stepfather in the WORLD!!!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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After a long, complicated debate that would be to boring to get into here, my wife and I decided to try and see if we could get her son a Wii for Christmas, which would make him the happiest little man in the world for, oh, at least fourteen seconds, until he got distracted by something shiny. Well, we poked around online, and the outlook was grim. The cheapest price we found was $350 - it’s supposed to retail for $250. Walmart is only selling them in a package with five games and extra remotes…for $630(!!!) I knew I hated the for a reason…

I decided to take this morning (Saturday) to go look around and see if I could find one anywhere, as my wife and boy had stuff to do. Ha ha ha. I spent two and a half hours driving all over the city. I went to eleven different stores. One Best Buy said that another Best Buy had some, so I rushed over there, only to find that they’d just finished selling their shipment of eight. (WTF is going on with this, anyway? It’s been out for, what, a year or two now? It’s not like it’s brand new. Gah!)

I was about ready to give up at that point, but out of sheer stubbornness I decided to go back to the mall near the first Best Buy, even though I knew my wife would laugh at me. It was a ten minute drive, but I ended up at the Gamestop in the mall, waiting in line to ask if they had any. A lady and her son got in line behind me, and I noticed he had a Wii box in hand. Yay! Maybe they DO have some around!! Then my turn came, and, um, no. They didn’t.

Ah, but as I was leaving, the lady with her son came running after me. Turns out he was there to sell his Wii to Gamestop because he wanted to get an Xbox 360 instead! She was nervous about approaching me, I could tell, so I tried to play it cool. “Hmm,” says I, “maybe we can make a deal…how much would you want?”

“Ummm…I don’t know…$200?” she suggests hesitantly.

“I think that would be OK,” I allow, trying to figure out how quickly I can get to an ATM before they come to their senses and disappear. I think they thought I was really rude, because as we walked, I couldn’t think of anything to say other than, for instance, “Holy crap! I can’t find these things anywhere! I was getting ready to shell out $500 for one if need be!!”

So, yeah. I got myself a Wii, an extra controller, a game, and some adapter thingy to connect it to the wi-fi network, all for TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS!!! Merry effing Christmas!!

I rock.

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Giddyup. Nice bargain, sir.

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I concur sir, you do rock.

I’m glad we got out of the game console treadmill. I can’t imagine going through all the crap people have to go through these days.

Back in my day…

Although my brother did tell me that it was great to have kids, because then when you are sitting there at midnight for the items to go on sale, you don’t look like the total loser you are, but instead, A Great Dad. (No, I would not be fooled. ;))

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Nice going.

Although I first mis-read the “am” in your thread title for “have,” and thought “damn, Thanksgiving must be awkward around your house.”

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You rock? That woman and her son rock.

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I think everyone came out ahead: Gamestop probably would have only given them a hundred bucks or so for their Wii, then then would have turned right around and sold it to Smeghead for $230, plus another $30 for the used game.

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The very definition of a good deal. One where both parts leave thinking they screwed the other. Good going, OP. Enjoy it.