!@#%^ Kids!

I'm trying to backup and add a lot of things I have missed. I am working more and just got out of school since getting laid off the 'money' job, so this has fallen behind on priority list. I will try to update while school is out though. Don't expect all my stories to be from one day...

1. I called an employee at another store today to ask about a game. Now, this game may not be known to every customer, but as 'avid gamers' I basically expect every hard core gamer or employee to have heard of some of the biggest and best games ever. Case in point... "Shadow of the Colossus? What is that about, I've never heard of it..."

2. Customer phone calls are some of the best. ""I need the Nintendo Double Screen. Not the DC or DS or whatever the hell it is. Not the DSI, not the dual screen, sp, advance or that sh**, the DOUBLE SCREEN."


3. Not always game related, but relevant to discussion or interest. We were talking Christmas songs, namely ones that aren't technically 'Christmas' songs. I was talking about how War is Over (Merry Xmas) by Yoko and John was actually a protest against Vietnam, and basically glazed in Christmas as a dig. This customer's reply:

"He just wants us to bring our troops home from Iraq with Christmas spirit in it too."
--You know John Lennon is dead...right?--
"Who's that? The guy who did this song?! Sad! When did that happen?"

4. Our favorite story of the week came about today. This is as close as I remember but the other employee who was their might be able to fill in the holes or cut additions. We had a very 'redneck' customer come in today. He had an interesting way of sarcasm. I think we heard him threaten divorce to his wife over Christmas presents, and being very straightforward about what we were charging him. He related this story that had us busting a gut.

"So the damn kids dumped my cologne down the drain and then lied about it for months! So they finally fessed up after I threatened my belt, and I told them lying is wrong. You know what the little sh*** did next? They said, Dad, if lying is bad, then who is the real Santa Claus...So now my damn kids don't believe in Santa, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, and probably Jesus! D*** kids.

5. "SO I don't want to run a cable downstairs, and can't connect my xbox to the computer screen upstairs. Now what."
--You could plug the box into a tv upstairs?
"Too much work. Can I download it from your store?"
--We don't have the internet actually
"!@#% Can I borrow your wireless thing then?"
--A wireless adapter? You could buy one...
"No, I just want to borrow yours, can you open it and I will borrow it?"
--Uh no, way against company policy
"!@#%, then I will just have to buy a new internet"


6. This is from one of our regulars I may or may not have mentioned before...
"So I have to download my downloadable content from the internet? Don't I just type this code while I play the game and the stuff comes in my mailbox or something?"
--No, you need the internet.
"D***. Guess I will have to buy another game that includes it."
---The only way to get it is by downloading it...