phancy - November 20th, 2006

I bought a Wii this morning. It was a remarkably painless procedure, especially after seeing crazy riots for PS3. Originally my plan was to wake up early and walk over to Target when they opened at 8AM. Except I slept in until 8AM, so I wound up leaving my house at 9AM. I sauntered over to Target only to find out they had sold the last Wii 5 minutes before my arrival. Best Buy is only two stores down the stripmall, so I continued my walk. There was a short line out front, so I thought "Why not?" and hopped in back of it. Apparently the line had been quite long earlier in the morning as the sidewalk was littered with empty Starbucks cups and McDonalds bags all the way to the next store. After a short wait I was given a ticket and ventured into the store. I picked up an extra controller and a copy of the new Zelda game, received and paid for the Wii. Best Buy, normally Hell On Earth, was amazingly quiet and organized. Elapsed time from getting in line to exiting the store was less than 20 minutes. Take THAT, people who lined up at some ungodly hour of the morning! Even including the walk to and from the store, I was only out of my house less 40 minutes.