“Today’s word is legs…” (this is one of my old favorite pickup lines)
“…so what do you say that we go back to my place and spread the word!” (sound bad joke drum symbol here)
Actually boys and girls…todays word is Greed. I know I shouldn’t let this have any sort of effect (affect?) (I never paid attention to how to use which during class) (today I am the king of parenthesis) on my mental being, but I can’t really help it.
I want a Wii. I do but I don’t. I want one, but I am not willing to buy it from some jackass who knows exactly when the truck unloads at Walmart and has an insider that tells him when to come to pick them up. This same jackass takes a product that is advertised at 280.00 and sells it on ebay/craigslist for 400.00 or more. The saddest part of the Wii shortage, is that it isn’t so much a shortage as it is a problem with society today. Greedy mofo’s. What bothers me even more is that I could actually buy one right now from Walmart if I wanted to. I couldn’t buy it for 280.00 bucks though…try 680 bucks. Walmart has chosen to offer the Wii, and force you to buy options as well as 6 games.
I am a good salesman. I have finally sold my wife on the idea that life would be so much better if we owned one. But I am smart enough to know that it would be a waste of my breath to to ask her if she would be down with me dropping over 700.00 on a gaming system. Will I eventually drop that coin on the system? Sure. But I can’t validate spending more than 100.00 over retail for a basic system, or buying the system along with 6 additional games in one swing.
I don’t even have time to play it. This might just be my obsessive compulsive addictive personality rearing it’s ugly head, and I can’t get it out of my brain. It’s like I have to have one now just to beat the system.
The word of the day is also brought to you by the Chicago Cubs. I have been in a “virtual” waiting room for over an hour now watching a little web browser count down from 15 seconds until the next refresh while I wait to be “randomly” chosen to buy Cubs tickets. What pisses me off about this…on top of the whole Wii thing…is that I am a fan who just wants to watch a freaking ball game. It makes me ill that I am going to be unable to get tickets at face value for my team because scalpers are in the know and are scooping up all of the tickets that they will turn around and resell for a ridiculous profit while I type this. (wow, run on city!)
Lastly, my wife and I are planning on going to see a country concert this summer at soldier field. I am a Gary Allan (I know, who cares) fan and Jeanne likes some of the other people performing as well. Something like 8-9 mega country stars. Anyway, I bought tickets yesterday from ticketmaster. They aren’t on sale to the general public yet, just fan club members. Well, I’m not a fan club member but I was able to find the fan club member password for this event through a general google search and was able to buy decent tickets. What amazes me is that you can go online right now and find the tickets that I have going for four time the cost of what I paid. They are selling too! Am I dumb for not buying up 8-10 tickets and then throwing them out there and having my overpriced bought Wii sponsored by my own greedy actions? I don’t think I can do that. I guess that’s the type of guy that I am.
Sorry to Rant, but today I am surrounded by many greedy bitches and I am looking down the barrel of one long balloon twisted weekend. I have four parties all together. A School fair for two hours tonight, two-two hour parties back to back tomorrow, and another two hour birthday party on Sunday.
Have a safe and happy weekend!
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