Five days after my birthday, I was finally able to score a Wii! That’s not bad considering how hard it is find one, especially in the Bay Area. So, yesterday I was frequenting the forums over at slickdeals around 5:45PM, when someone posted that the Game Stop at Valley Fair had just received a huge shipment of Wiis. At first I was skeptical. Plus, if the post was true, I really doubted that I could get there before they ran out. I was a good 20 minutes away from Valley Fair since it was commute hours. At 6PM, I finally decided that I had nothing to lose, so I left work and raced over to the mall.
I get to Valley Fair at 6:20PM. And as I neared Game Stop, I passed by someone walking out of the store with a Wii. Oh wow, so they really did have Wiis in stock. Now, I hoped there’s one left for me. When I entered the store, there were three people already waiting in line. I hopped to the back of the line and waited patiently, or as patiently as I could. I peered behind the counter and saw a bunch of boxes of Wiis on the ground and was confident that one of them was mine. When I was finally next in the line, the guy at the counter had a bunch of questions for the cashier. “Hurry up! You’re killing me,” I was thinking to myself.
And then it was finally my turn. “Can I help you?” asks the cashier. “I’d like to buy a Wii,” I answer, as I try to calm myself down. “Sorry, we are all sold out,” he responds. My jaw hits the floor. “Oops, reflex….I’m just so use to saying that,” jokes the punk behind the counter who thinks he’s a comedian. “Is there anything else I can get you?” he asks as he unveils a Wii from behind the counter. Yeah, maybe a defribillator to get my heart started again!
So, I walk out the door at 6:30PM with a Wii in hand. I didn’t hang around to find out when they ran out, but I check the forums later to find that they sold out 10 minutes after I left. Now that I’ve got a Wii, you might not hear from me for a while. 😉