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So I left home with my moms boyriend at 4:55 a.m. to embark on the shopping frenzy that is Black Friday. Why was this "holiday" invented anyway? After reading this it should be obvious.
We arrived at 5:15 a.m. and stood out in the icy coldness for 45 minutes until opening. And right off the bat I noticed Big Brother Business at work. In and out and all about went hapless CC employees. Pestering people to find out what they are getting. If it happend to be something big and expensive well~you need to fill out an application including giving them a copy of your drivers license! WTF?? Inside the store was no better. The cashiers were all trainees! Literally. This dude who actually knew how to work the registers had to fix a mistake after every customer. And no I'm not exaggerating. I stood in line in the same spot for well over 20 minutes due to one big mess up. And why were trainees friggin working on Black Friday?? To mess with you. Big Brother Business says the longer you're in the store the more impulsive you may become. But it doesn't end there. When you do manage to reach the fabled land of checkout and hand over your $$$ - - - you must first submit to the overlords and give the phone number, name, and address. Why again are we not allowed to buy things with real money without being stalked like this? to CC - 20 minutes waiting for CC to open - 45 minutes finding stuff in CC - 10 minutes waiting in line in CC - 1 hour and 15 minutes ARGH! So there you have it. Black Friday was invented to whip people up into a frenzy. In actuality most of the "great deals" are nothing special. Getting the little people to herd up outside of your shop in the freezing cold and dark hours of the morning....all just to show their control over you. I wouldn't have even bothered going if I had a choice but since my mom couldn't go~someone had to, to keep her boyfriend from being slow as heck and getting the wrong things. And on an unrelated note I apparently shop like a man? Within a minute a found 4 of the 5 things we were sent there to get while my moms b/f took like ten minutes to get one darn thing! Role reversal? Nah~I mean I do occasionally browse when out shopping with my mom but there are so few things I want (or am willing to spend my money on) that I've developed this get in - get out attitude of shopping. No point in torturing yourself over stuff you won't get anyway ya know. Sooo that adventure sucked big time. I didn't get anything outta the deal. What's worse is it was just me and my moms b/f cause she convienently got sick (gee drinking and smoking weed will kinda do that to you). -_- I shouldn't have even bothered going. Worst thing is I know virtually all of my Christmas presents cause I was the one picking them out! >_< And now for a bonus: "gamer" observation time! Lotsa games were all about at CC and later on at EB. So here's some quotes on each system from poser gamer guys and stupid mothers. Try to guess which ones from a guy or a girl. PS2 - "no ones playing it anymore" XBOX - was mentioned slightly more then GC due to Halo. "thats Halo are you sure you don't want Halo 2? - Yes." GC - mentioned pretty regulary but for nothing specific "price is good" GBA - talked about the most, naturally "your out of gba videos? then why do you have the empty boxes and display out??" DS - beat the PS2 in speakage but wasn't to positive (or intelligent) "its a waste right now most of the games (meaning gba) use only one screen while so far only 4 use both" PSP - one very stupid mention "the DS will drop in price when PSP comes out so get it then because the PSP will be around $280" Lastly while stuck in line for over an hour staring at the DS section I finally came to my own opinion of how badly NoA screwed the DS launch. 1.) Most mainstream game centered launch yet. 3 of the 6 games were Madden, The Sims, and generic movie license game (Spiderman 2). 2.) Those 3 games were sitting there looking pretty at $40 while the GBA versions and Mario 64 DS were at $30. 3.) Mario 64 DS' name itself. Did we really need to be reminded its a retrash of Mario 64? Calling it Mario DS would have actually helped to improve the games image. Why the 64 was tacked on, I'll never know. All in all it's safe to say big brother is in full effect and mainstream gamers/gift givers are clueless. |
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