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How I Got My Wii
I discovered the week before Thanksgiving that a Wii had become a high priority item on my son’s Christmas list. Given a greater amount of lead-time this may not have been as big an issue as it turned out because Wiis are ridiculously difficult to acquire. On Black Friday my Brother in-law and I went on my first Wii mission, I had a lead that Game Stop had a promo so off we went at 6:00am. We arrived at about 6:15 to a line of about 40 people. At about 7:00am I discovered that they had run out of Wiis 10 people in front of me. Ok, plan B, there was another store with an ad, Game Spot. They did not open until 8:00am and we were only number 4 in line when we got there. At this time I’ve totally got my hopes up. After standing in line for 45 minutes I get inside to find out that they actually did not get any Wiis in even though they had them on ad…letdown! Following this we floundered around Target and Walmart which was pointless. Returning home exasperated we continued to make futile attempts to locate a Wii online
This last week I stopped in at Toys R Us to build a strategy. I talked to one of the Electronics dept sales people and he said the key was to check their ad on Saturday, if Wii was in the ad then be sure to show up on Sunday. Yesterday I checked the ad and low-and-behold there was the Wii in the ad. This morning I got up at 5:30am, the store opens at 8:00am, and pulled into Toys R Us parking lot at 6:30am. I was number 29 in line and wondering to myself if I blew it. It is totally cold and rainy and I am thinking that if I am unsuccessful then I will have to come up with creative reasons why Santa was unable to deliver on the Wii, after all Santa has strong magic, a huge workforce of elves, and contingencies for bad weather, such as Rudolph; so it is very unlikely that Santa can’t actually deliver for a boy who is definitely not on the naughty list.
Then something truly wonderful happened, a nice man who was dressed in red began moving through the line handing out small slips of paper. He came to my position and gave me a slip which said that I was going to be the proud owner of a Wii, of course the slip also provided discounts for other cool up sell items that one must have in order to provide a completely fun Wii experience. They then began allowing four people at a time to enter the store before opening, this was greatly appreciated because it was really freaking cold and rainy out, still I did not make it to the door until 8:00am at which time they opened to everyone. All of us moved in an organized fashion to the Electronics Department to get our share of Wii love.
Today I can now revel knowing that I do not have to stand in any more lines this year, I really don’t enjoy standing in lines. However, I have to comment that there is no other group of people such as the Wii line standers that I would rather stand in line with. In each attempt, hanging with the others who share the same goal was a really cool experience. We shared stories of failure, and why we continue to endeavor the elements in our pursuits of Wii happiness. And in our success we shared our joy and reveled at our persistence.
I now returned home, 150 bucks over budget, able to bear the number one priority item on the Christmas list…So worth it!
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