So w00ter enlists me to pick up a copy of mgs2 for him since he wasn't able to pick it up yesterday. So, after getting off work at 7am, I watch my tape of Gilmore Girls and Roswell to kill time since those places don't open up until 10. I of course thought mebbe one of the places would surely be open at 9, but I was sadly mistaken, as I arrived in the Cobb area at 930 and everything was still closed. My plan of attack was to hit the Cobb Best Buy, Media Play, Software etc at Cumberland, Best Buy near perimeter mall, EB at Perimeter Mall, then Lenox. Surely, the demand isn't that high that none of those places would have it. But I had half an hour to kill, which I did at Barnes and Noble. More stores like that should be open at 9am.
So I arrive at Best Buy at 10am. There's a shelf labelled for it, but alas, it is empty. I wait a few minutes for a best buy employee, but for some reason no one was around! Not suffering fools lightly, I went next door to Media Play. After waiting behind some frat boy wanting to get a copy of
GTA3, I ask the guy if its in, since the date on their sign says 11/30. He tells me that that's wrong, and the shipping date is the 13th. "So that means you have a copy?" And he's all, "Oh, no! The shipping date means that that is when its shipped to the stores and you can't get it until tomorrow."
Then he tries to get me to reserve a copy. I say no thanks and hit Cumberland.
Anyhoo, so I get to Cumberland and wait a few minutes, as the kinda cute shop girl is stuck on the phone with some customer. She's getting irate, since it seems to me the person on the other end is a moron. At one point, she even holds the phone away from her ear and is all sigh-y and I give her a sympathetic expression, for I feel her pain. Anyhoo, she finally manages to get off the phone and asks what I want. "Do y'all have any copies of mgs2?" I ask in a dejected voice, expecting her to say, "Only if you pre- ordered, silly!" But she ends up not answering at all, as the phone rings yet again. But as she talks, she gets me out a copy, so I'm satisfied with my mission being accomplished. Of course, as I pay, she gets yet another call, this time some dork wanting to know how many metal gear action figures
they gots in stock. (I suppose that its entirely possible it was some tech geek who reads this group. In that case, I apologize. Okay, not really. I mean, what the hell are you doing playing with dolls anyways?!) Seeing that kinda cute shopgirl is already hating life and its only 20 minutes into her shift, I turn on the charm and tell her to blow off her duties and come back to my place. We can play some MGS2, if you know what I mean! heh. Then hilarity ensued, with sexy results! Okay, not really. Ah, but how much more interesting life would be if it went like it did in my imagination.
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