Friday, December 15, 2006

A Movie Script?

Every day after she drops her kids off at school, my sister does the circuit. She goes to Future Shop, Best Buy, Walmart, and so on til she's visited all the local Nintendo Wii retailers.
"Sorry, we're not expecting an order today..."
"Sorry, you just missed out..."
"Come back later..."
On Thursday her last stop of the morning was Electronic Boutique.
"Are you expecting any Wiis today?"
"Yeah, we have an order coming in at around 2. Come back later..."
She was preparing to leave when she noticed two women hovering in the store.
"Are you waiting for the Wiis?" she asked them.
"Yes. We are numbers one and two in line."
It was 10:15 am, but Jul decided to wait it out.
By 1:30 pm she was starving so she zipped out across the street to grab a Frosty from Wendy's.
When she got back, she dropped to number 4 as someone else took her spot in line. As the afternoon wore on, the line grew to a dozen women.
At 2:15, the order arrived and was opened. The manager announced, "there are only 3 Wiis in this order. The first three in line can buy them."
Just then an older woman walked into the store. "I'm number 3, that third one is mine."

Claws were uncoiled and fangs were revealed by the docile dozen who had waited for hours. The aggressive older woman with balls of steel did not back down; "No, I was the third in line. I'll take that last one..." She looked into the eyes of the manager with sincerity and said, "That third one is mine."

Seconds before her limbs were ripped off by a mob of Nintendo crazed soccer moms, the manager said with all the authority and power vested in her by her possession of the pricing gun and packing slip, "NO YOU WERE NOT THE THIRD IN LINE." Order was restored and tempers cooled.

And after wasting 4 hours of her life, my sister left empty-handed.
"We're expecting another order tomorrow," the manager called after her. "Come early and bring a lunch..."

Apparently Toys R Us has an order in stock that they are going to make available for sale on Saturday morning at 10 am. I drove past the mall a few hours ago and there were 10 kids in sleeping bags on lawn chairs camping outside the mall entrance.

I told Clint and Max to go join them.

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