“Wiithdrawl”

Spare batteries are on a pedastool in a locked closet in the dark side of of our household.

 

Source: Go Nintendo

This Guy Really Needs His Wii!

This man’s imagination is completely open to anything…

 

Source: Go Nintendo

Our Wii Line Story!

As tension grows to get a Wii at our household, we will take any chance to get one. With such a want, I am crazy enough to camp out for more than 4 days. On the other hand, Roy keeps telling me that I am the craziest person in the world. His mind was changed this morning.

We were planning on staying awake all night last night to leave at 5:00 to go to Best Buy. Somehow, we had both fallen asleep and at 6:00, I miraculously woke up and we got out of the house in less than 2 minutes. With our bellies rumbling, we arrive at the scene to a 45 person line and our hopes had gone down, knowing only 21 Wiis belonged to the store. Thankfully the Best Buy was next to a Toys R’ Us that had a 50 person line, but they had gotten 40 the past night. Hope seemed to fade away as the clock got closer and closer to 8:00.

We look ahead and it turns out we’re about 70th in line and our confidence was too small to count on. All of a sudden, somebody thinks it’s hopeless and leaves and about 30 other people follow him. We were imagining walking out of the store with our Wii above our heads, giddy, and screaming at the people who didn’t get one.

While this happened, I left to go check everywhere else with low hopes. EB Games, Gamestop, Target, and Wal-Mart all had sold out and on my drive home, my dream is starting to fade away. As I pull up to the Toys R’ Us, it not being open, I see a huge chunk of the line missing and I started to think, “Oh snap! Roy must’ve already gone inside!”, since I had yet to see him. I run up to the line and I see his green link sweatshirt and he explained to me what happened, and we really got our hopes up!

They passed out the tickets 30 minutes before the swarm left and we were standing next to the last ticket holder, #40th, and we were exactly #45th. We kept thinking that they can’t have exactly 40 Wiis and then the doors opened.

We rush inside, Roy speeding ahead and cutting about 20 people, and the manager yells out, “All of the availible Wiis are spoken for with tickets. We left the store in shame of not getting a Wii.

We had faced defeat and we didn’t care because we were thinking of next wiikend. On our way home, we drive by the local GameCrazy where nobody is waiting and we decided that we would stick out 1 hour and a half more, it being 8:30.

We’re sitting outside GameCrazy, Roy wrapped in his sleeping bag, and I on a chair wrapped in a blanket with a box of doughnuts playing Cooking Mama from the DS Download Station inside. My friend drives up to the gas station next door and I tell Roy that I think that was him and I pointed to his car. We start to yell his name and it was him and he’s been looking everywhere for a spot and was dissapointed. We told him our situation and he decided to sit with us and we were yelling at everybody and eating doughnuts galore. 2 more people drive up and wait with us and one of my friends from EB Games drives up. He left his chair at the EB Games he worked at, thinking it’ll garuntee him a Wii and he drove over to GameStop to wait with his other friend. He drives back to EB Games at 8:45 to find his chair in the bushes and the other people waiting yelling at him that he left and he lost his spot.

So my friends, Roy, and I are sharing doughnuts until the GameCrazy employee shows up with that status. They didn’t have any and weren’t getting any today. We didn’t care, we waited just to wait and say we stook it out at a GameCrazy where nobody else dared to tread! The employee told us that they get shipments during the week and we’ll be calling everyday now until they get the shipment with out Wii. If we are unsuccsessful with GameCrazy, we’ll leave for Best Buy at 2 in the morning.

Wii shall perservere!