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Psyrixx's X-Box Odyssey (kinda OT and long) | |
Posted By: Psyrixx <psyrixx@psyjnir.com> | Date: 11/15/01 3:45 p.m. |
What follows is the story of my quest for the coveted X-Box. There are no Halo spoilers in this post. ******* When Electronics Boutique started taking pre-orders for the X-Box, I immediately went to their online store and put myself down. "I can easily have the cash for an X-Box by the release date," I said to myself. "No problem." The months rolled by until 7 days before the scheduled release I had accumulated all but $75 of the cost of my EB X-Box preorder. I asked my older, well employed, cousin if I could bum $50 off of him because I was pretty sure I could work up the extra $25 with no problem. He replied by signing me over $100 that following Monday, three days before launch. I decided to hold off on cashing his check because I wanted to fix a little problem on my website and I could just as easily cash it the next day. The following day, after I got home from cashing my check, I had an e-mail from Electronics Boutique telling me that because my account had insufficient funds they were unable to ship it to me on that date and that if I didn't contact them within 2 days my preorder would be cancelled. "OMG! I could've had Halo a day early!" I thought. "DAMN! WHY didn't I cash that check yesterday!?!? Oh well, I'll call 'em up and they'll ship it tomorrow and I'll get it on launch day which will be fine anyways." I called EB up and explained what happened and the customer service representative said that they'd try again the next day. ...but they didn't. Using the EBOnline Order Tracking area, I noticed that they kept my preorder on hold all day Wednesday. I knew that meant that I wouldn't be receiving it on launch day and that made me relatively angry. "Okay, I'll stay up all night and then go and camp in front of Target tomorrow at 5:00 AM and maybe I'll get a box on launch day. If I don't then I'll still have my preorder to fall back on." This I did, and I managed to be number 14 in line for 22 X-Boxes. I was thrilled! At 8:00, the doors opened and I rushed over to the games area (since we were given tickets guaranteeing us X-Boxes...) only to find... ... no Halo. "WHAT THE F*CK!?!?!?" I said to myself. "HOW can they not have HALO!??!"
Unwilling to ditch my X-Box simply because they didn't have any good games, I went and grabbed my X-Box and a second controller (which brings my total up to 4 controllers... I bought a couple about two weeks ago because I'm lame. heheh) and decided to check the local "Fred Meyers" (like a walmart...). An hour later I had been to Fred Meyers, K-Mart, ShopKo (another walmart clone...), and the local Electronics Boutique and none had Halo. "Great. Just great. I have the console but I don't have any games for it." Then, I remembered a little jingle. It went something like this:
I put down a wager with myself that Halo would be among the video games.
I promptly snatched it (along with DOA3 and Project Gotham Racing...) and paid and received and came home. I set up the X-Box and got everything ready. Then, I turned on my TV...
"GOD DAMN WTF?????" I hollered.
I was finally home again. ******* Ok, so the "finally home again" thing is the only part of my story that makes it an Odyssey (well, that and the fact that I went to every store on earth before I found games...) but it's all true, unlike that piece written by Homer. pshaw! What a load of crap. Come on, journeying all over unwillingfully just to see your family again? That's just lame. But journeying all over unwillingly to get Halo, now *that's* a true Odyssey. ;-) |
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Psyrixx's X-Box Odyssey (kinda OT and long) | Psyrixx | 11/15/01 3:45 p.m. |
Re: Psyrixx's X-Box Odyssey (kinda OT and long) | griffon | 11/15/01 4:23 p.m. |
Re: Psyrixx's X-Box Odyssey (kinda OT and long) | Psyrixx | 11/15/01 8:37 p.m. |
Re: Psyrixx's X-Box Odyssey (kinda OT and long) | Djof | 11/15/01 9:24 p.m. |
Re: Psyrixx's X-Box Odyssey (kinda OT and long) | Psyrixx | 11/15/01 9:40 p.m. |
Re: Psyrixx's X-Box Odyssey (kinda OT and long) | jcampen | 11/17/01 11:59 a.m. |
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