Nintendo Wii
A slow day in the KingDom - crunching numbers and formatting some reports.
Slow was not however how my day started. Today started with a bang at exactly 8:30am when Target opened. Each store in Perth got in 10 Nintendo Wii's today. There were 30 people pressed up against the door waiting for them to open at the one I went to - although I didn't realise at the time they were all there for the same thing.
I imagined I was going to briskly stroll to the electronics section and buy one with my dignity intact. However all thoughts of that ended when the doors opened and the mad sprint began.
Once I got sucked in to the sprinting race I quickly decided "Heck I'm already embarrassing myself - there is now NO way I'm doing this for nothing." I somewhat recklessly put on a burst of speed at that moment. There was no way those ladies, those grandparents and those 15 year olds are going to beat me.
Fortunately I knew a good route to the electronics section and managed to get there with only a bruised knee from weaving between clothing racks. I'm not quite sure how it was that I didn't knock any over - I was the only thing that fell to the ground.
Once we got to the electronic section people began madly looking around for boxes of Wii's. Queen Dom had advised me that there was no way they'd be stacking them up for people to madly grab. Her advice proved correct and going immediately to the counter and asking for one was the smart move. I lined up third at the counter and actually felt good about handing over $400. It's amazing what a little competition can do.
Slow was not however how my day started. Today started with a bang at exactly 8:30am when Target opened. Each store in Perth got in 10 Nintendo Wii's today. There were 30 people pressed up against the door waiting for them to open at the one I went to - although I didn't realise at the time they were all there for the same thing.
I imagined I was going to briskly stroll to the electronics section and buy one with my dignity intact. However all thoughts of that ended when the doors opened and the mad sprint began.
Once I got sucked in to the sprinting race I quickly decided "Heck I'm already embarrassing myself - there is now NO way I'm doing this for nothing." I somewhat recklessly put on a burst of speed at that moment. There was no way those ladies, those grandparents and those 15 year olds are going to beat me.
Fortunately I knew a good route to the electronics section and managed to get there with only a bruised knee from weaving between clothing racks. I'm not quite sure how it was that I didn't knock any over - I was the only thing that fell to the ground.
Once we got to the electronic section people began madly looking around for boxes of Wii's. Queen Dom had advised me that there was no way they'd be stacking them up for people to madly grab. Her advice proved correct and going immediately to the counter and asking for one was the smart move. I lined up third at the counter and actually felt good about handing over $400. It's amazing what a little competition can do.
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Errr not telling. :O
It would have looked pretty funny. I was making a sprint down an isle shaped like
----(R)----
Where R was racks of clothing with a small path around them on either side.
Instead of curving around them I chose to weave straight through them at full pace.
Somehow I didn't knock the racks over but my feet tangled and I went sprawling on the other side.
With people all around me I scrambled up, and sprinted for the finish. Somehow catching my glasses mid air which went flying as I fell.
End result one very badly bruised knee but at least I don't have to go back.
Silly thing is I haven't even opened it and I'm looking forward to TBC far more. It was more a case of, as usual, simply refusing to lose.
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