So, uh, I 'ould just like to tell you about a little incident at the shriner auditorium, um, well see, we made this scene down there, we walked in and this this place is big, you know real big, you know? and everybody’s going to be there Louis Armstrong and his boys are going to be there and the Titans and the Velvetones and The Blackouts. The Velvetones think they’re Lawrence Welk.
So begins my first ever real blog on any website/blog period so please cut me some slack if I’m not descriptive enough or too descriptive or too this or not enough that because I'm an uber newb.
I don't know if blogs get titles or not but I'll call this Discovering God.
Saturday morning (my morning time) November, 18 2006
I awoke to my mom screaming my name today and wondering what the hell she wanted. I wouldn't call myself a morning person but I’m pretty good about waking up right away. So it's one o' clock in the afternoon (I have a night job I'm not just some sort of slacker who sleeps in) She asked me if I called Wal Mart or not. I said no I just woke up and she told me call them to find out what was going on.
Some time two or three weeks before that...
I called Wal Mart on work time and asked if I could speak with someone at electronics. A nice fellow by the name of Josh answered and I asked him what Wal Marts plans for the Wii were (the Wii is Nintendo’s next-gen gaming system which I had been anticipating for a while for those of you who don't already know.) he said that they were doing a midnight release on Saturday November 18th (he really meant Sunday at the following day but you get the picture.) So I said okay thanks what time do you think I should line up for it, he suggested I come at 10 PM because that's when all the X Box 360 guys came last year I said cool and decided I would go at eight instead because there was a lot more hype surrounding the Wii.
Some time a week after that and two weeks before Wii Launch date...
So by now I'm going insane thinking Woo! just one more week until I get a Wii! (I know what you're thinking "but the date thingy said two weeks before the Wii Launch..." or maybe you're thinking I'm an idiot either way keep reading.) Here I am doing my totally mundane, repetitive, thankless, dead end job (I'm a janitor... It's cleaner than it sounds and it makes better pay than you might think... still kind of sucks though) So here I am thinking its a week before the Wii Launch when it's actually two weeks prior. The huge huge huge! irony is the simple fact that every day that week I had been throwing away hundreds of defective (must have a typo or something I don’t know why they were throwing them out) calenders hundreds of them every day. I never bothered to really look at a single one of them though and in my life you really lose track of the day. So as I'm getting rid of the garbage out of someone's cubicle I glance at their phone to check the time and notice the date. I went half way to loony land. That's when I discovered there really was a God and he obviously hated me, not that I didn't believe in God before but still.
So fastforwarding a bit, I was all whiny and moaning about how I now have to wait two more weeks for the Wii. I heard South Park was making fun of me so I had to check it out. Found out Cartmen wanted a Wii almost as badly as I did. I don't know why people are offended by that show. They were directly making fun of me... or people like me and I was laughing my ass off. It's not malicious... it's delicious. Shut up I know that was the dumbest thing anyone’s ever said and brings the question "Is our children learning?" to mind. Fastforwarding even more... So I call Wal Mart four days before Wii Launch and asked a lady what was going on with the Wii she said I was her first Wii caller and all day long it's been PS3 this and PS3 that she said a line of twenty guys were waiting two days before the PS3 Launch. She said I could come at any time but I wasn’t allowed to sleep and I wasn’t allowed to bring my own chair and they were giving wristbands out at eleven PM to guarantee you get a Wii. So my plans were cemented.
Friday before the midnight release.
So being the paranoid person that I am I called Wal Mart again the night before and asked them what the deal was. I was told that you aren’t allowed to line up until eleven PM the next day which made me furious because two people prior had said I could come whenever I pleased. Well I huffed and I puffed and I went to bed at four AM like I normally do.
Saturday morning (my morning time) November, 18 2006 Part Two
So back to where this story sort of began, it’s one o clock and I’m calling Wal Mart some lady picks up and said that everyone was already lined up I was like what the fuck? I was told you’re not allowed to line up until ten hours from now. She said she was sorry that there was a mistake and I pretty much told her off and asked to speak to a supervisor so Ron gets on the phone and I’m like dude what the hell why is Wal Mart being a bitch and he said that there was a miscommunication. So now I’m thinking shit I'm not getting a Wii. I asked him if the other Wal Mart had any units left he said he would call back. So I hop in the shower do my thing dry off and grab my iPod and DS Lite and plop on the couch waiting to see if he’s going to call back. The phone rang after about two minutes Ron said they had three chairs left over there. I asked if they were going to save me one since I was basically cheated out of getting one at his Wal Mart he said they weren’t allowed to do that so I hung up and had my mom drive me over to the west side of town she told me to get out in the middle of the street and we weren’t in the parking lot I told he she was crazy she told me to get out and run if I really wanted it. So I got out and I kind of jogged more or less through the parking lot all the way to the back of the Wal Mart so I’m out of breath and I'm looking around in layaway and figure out that there aren’t any spots left… I was crestfallen. I realized there really was a God and he hated me… very much. Then this kid said hey did you need a chair? And I was like… hell yeah! And he said he wasn’t buying a Wii he was just sitting there with his friend. So when I should have gotten no chair I got seat eight out of twenty-nine. I sat down and sighed a great sigh of relief: I was going to get my Wii. Maybe God didn’t hate me after all. So I sat there and chatted and played BS (a bluffing card game) with about seven people who I didn’t know at all but felt they were my closest friends in the world. Then I met Stephy. I don’t know his real name but his girlfriend’s name was Stephy and he was using her DS and he challenged me to a game of Mario Kart DS I said sure thinking nothing of it figured it was a good way to pass the eleven hours I needed to be there. Little did I know he and a group of six friends (including his girlfriend) wanted to play too so here we are in a giant race against one another. Now I’m not claiming I'm a God or anything when it comes to Mario Kart but I am pretty good. I usually get my ass handed to me during online matches though. So I'm racing against these seven other people and I'm wiping the floor with them for a good ten races. I guess they got fed up and since they were all friends they banded together and gunned for me. So for the next ten races everyone was aiming their items at me using their stars on me and trying to run me off the road. I was like dude… it’s a game and I happen to be better at it than you guys are you don't have to take it so seriously. So I got bored of that after a while I figured I wasn't wanted in their circle any more so I started chatting with people. I ended up trading seat eight for seat two (it was a little kid he didn’t care what number he got as long as he got a Wii. Then I traded seat two for seat one. Whiling away the last three hours was easier than I thought it would be I met this pretty cool guy named Caleb and we exchanged Myspace addresses and played a game for the last half hour. Then it came time to start handing out the tickets (not wristbands like the lady said) to "guarantee you a Wii. The man handing them out said "Now this does not guarantee you a Wii." And I was wondering just what they were for then. Then a man by the name of Josh (The man I spoke to on the phone who said the X Box 360 guys lined up at ten) started wheeling out the equipment it was five to midnight. Midnight came and the he wheeled out a large amount of Wiis in a shopping cart. This was it I was thinking I’m finally going to get one after months of anticipation. Then I started thinking something was going to screw up so I got all paranoid. I ended up being the first customer in Sioux Falls to touch a Wii not that that really means a whole lot but you know it was kind of cool. I got Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, a Wii, a Virtual Controller (also called the Classic Controller) and 2000 Wii points. I had ten dollars left in my wallet and I left I told Stephy and his gang to take it easy they sneered and I walked away with a Wii and a sense of happiness I had not known in some time.
Sunday November 19th 2006 12:05 AM
It was at this moment I realized God didn’t hate me he just had a sense of humor. He made me get scared out of my mind that I would have to wait until March to get a console and screwed up all the careful planning I did which ended up meaning nothing. But I ended up getting a seat anyhow, seat one no less. I went home plugged in my Wii and had a blast.
If you want to make God laugh show him your plans for tomorrow that’s all I have to say.
So begins my first ever real blog on any website/blog period so please cut me some slack if I’m not descriptive enough or too descriptive or too this or not enough that because I'm an uber newb.
I don't know if blogs get titles or not but I'll call this Discovering God.
Saturday morning (my morning time) November, 18 2006
I awoke to my mom screaming my name today and wondering what the hell she wanted. I wouldn't call myself a morning person but I’m pretty good about waking up right away. So it's one o' clock in the afternoon (I have a night job I'm not just some sort of slacker who sleeps in) She asked me if I called Wal Mart or not. I said no I just woke up and she told me call them to find out what was going on.
Some time two or three weeks before that...
I called Wal Mart on work time and asked if I could speak with someone at electronics. A nice fellow by the name of Josh answered and I asked him what Wal Marts plans for the Wii were (the Wii is Nintendo’s next-gen gaming system which I had been anticipating for a while for those of you who don't already know.) he said that they were doing a midnight release on Saturday November 18th (he really meant Sunday at the following day but you get the picture.) So I said okay thanks what time do you think I should line up for it, he suggested I come at 10 PM because that's when all the X Box 360 guys came last year I said cool and decided I would go at eight instead because there was a lot more hype surrounding the Wii.
Some time a week after that and two weeks before Wii Launch date...
So by now I'm going insane thinking Woo! just one more week until I get a Wii! (I know what you're thinking "but the date thingy said two weeks before the Wii Launch..." or maybe you're thinking I'm an idiot either way keep reading.) Here I am doing my totally mundane, repetitive, thankless, dead end job (I'm a janitor... It's cleaner than it sounds and it makes better pay than you might think... still kind of sucks though) So here I am thinking its a week before the Wii Launch when it's actually two weeks prior. The huge huge huge! irony is the simple fact that every day that week I had been throwing away hundreds of defective (must have a typo or something I don’t know why they were throwing them out) calenders hundreds of them every day. I never bothered to really look at a single one of them though and in my life you really lose track of the day. So as I'm getting rid of the garbage out of someone's cubicle I glance at their phone to check the time and notice the date. I went half way to loony land. That's when I discovered there really was a God and he obviously hated me, not that I didn't believe in God before but still.
So fastforwarding a bit, I was all whiny and moaning about how I now have to wait two more weeks for the Wii. I heard South Park was making fun of me so I had to check it out. Found out Cartmen wanted a Wii almost as badly as I did. I don't know why people are offended by that show. They were directly making fun of me... or people like me and I was laughing my ass off. It's not malicious... it's delicious. Shut up I know that was the dumbest thing anyone’s ever said and brings the question "Is our children learning?" to mind. Fastforwarding even more... So I call Wal Mart four days before Wii Launch and asked a lady what was going on with the Wii she said I was her first Wii caller and all day long it's been PS3 this and PS3 that she said a line of twenty guys were waiting two days before the PS3 Launch. She said I could come at any time but I wasn’t allowed to sleep and I wasn’t allowed to bring my own chair and they were giving wristbands out at eleven PM to guarantee you get a Wii. So my plans were cemented.
Friday before the midnight release.
So being the paranoid person that I am I called Wal Mart again the night before and asked them what the deal was. I was told that you aren’t allowed to line up until eleven PM the next day which made me furious because two people prior had said I could come whenever I pleased. Well I huffed and I puffed and I went to bed at four AM like I normally do.
Saturday morning (my morning time) November, 18 2006 Part Two
So back to where this story sort of began, it’s one o clock and I’m calling Wal Mart some lady picks up and said that everyone was already lined up I was like what the fuck? I was told you’re not allowed to line up until ten hours from now. She said she was sorry that there was a mistake and I pretty much told her off and asked to speak to a supervisor so Ron gets on the phone and I’m like dude what the hell why is Wal Mart being a bitch and he said that there was a miscommunication. So now I’m thinking shit I'm not getting a Wii. I asked him if the other Wal Mart had any units left he said he would call back. So I hop in the shower do my thing dry off and grab my iPod and DS Lite and plop on the couch waiting to see if he’s going to call back. The phone rang after about two minutes Ron said they had three chairs left over there. I asked if they were going to save me one since I was basically cheated out of getting one at his Wal Mart he said they weren’t allowed to do that so I hung up and had my mom drive me over to the west side of town she told me to get out in the middle of the street and we weren’t in the parking lot I told he she was crazy she told me to get out and run if I really wanted it. So I got out and I kind of jogged more or less through the parking lot all the way to the back of the Wal Mart so I’m out of breath and I'm looking around in layaway and figure out that there aren’t any spots left… I was crestfallen. I realized there really was a God and he hated me… very much. Then this kid said hey did you need a chair? And I was like… hell yeah! And he said he wasn’t buying a Wii he was just sitting there with his friend. So when I should have gotten no chair I got seat eight out of twenty-nine. I sat down and sighed a great sigh of relief: I was going to get my Wii. Maybe God didn’t hate me after all. So I sat there and chatted and played BS (a bluffing card game) with about seven people who I didn’t know at all but felt they were my closest friends in the world. Then I met Stephy. I don’t know his real name but his girlfriend’s name was Stephy and he was using her DS and he challenged me to a game of Mario Kart DS I said sure thinking nothing of it figured it was a good way to pass the eleven hours I needed to be there. Little did I know he and a group of six friends (including his girlfriend) wanted to play too so here we are in a giant race against one another. Now I’m not claiming I'm a God or anything when it comes to Mario Kart but I am pretty good. I usually get my ass handed to me during online matches though. So I'm racing against these seven other people and I'm wiping the floor with them for a good ten races. I guess they got fed up and since they were all friends they banded together and gunned for me. So for the next ten races everyone was aiming their items at me using their stars on me and trying to run me off the road. I was like dude… it’s a game and I happen to be better at it than you guys are you don't have to take it so seriously. So I got bored of that after a while I figured I wasn't wanted in their circle any more so I started chatting with people. I ended up trading seat eight for seat two (it was a little kid he didn’t care what number he got as long as he got a Wii. Then I traded seat two for seat one. Whiling away the last three hours was easier than I thought it would be I met this pretty cool guy named Caleb and we exchanged Myspace addresses and played a game for the last half hour. Then it came time to start handing out the tickets (not wristbands like the lady said) to "guarantee you a Wii. The man handing them out said "Now this does not guarantee you a Wii." And I was wondering just what they were for then. Then a man by the name of Josh (The man I spoke to on the phone who said the X Box 360 guys lined up at ten) started wheeling out the equipment it was five to midnight. Midnight came and the he wheeled out a large amount of Wiis in a shopping cart. This was it I was thinking I’m finally going to get one after months of anticipation. Then I started thinking something was going to screw up so I got all paranoid. I ended up being the first customer in Sioux Falls to touch a Wii not that that really means a whole lot but you know it was kind of cool. I got Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, a Wii, a Virtual Controller (also called the Classic Controller) and 2000 Wii points. I had ten dollars left in my wallet and I left I told Stephy and his gang to take it easy they sneered and I walked away with a Wii and a sense of happiness I had not known in some time.
Sunday November 19th 2006 12:05 AM
It was at this moment I realized God didn’t hate me he just had a sense of humor. He made me get scared out of my mind that I would have to wait until March to get a console and screwed up all the careful planning I did which ended up meaning nothing. But I ended up getting a seat anyhow, seat one no less. I went home plugged in my Wii and had a blast.
If you want to make God laugh show him your plans for tomorrow that’s all I have to say.