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serindeSo, the big Nintendo flagship store at Rockefeller Center has, so their web site saith, a "limited number" of Wii Fits available, first-come first-served, every morning. Yesterday morning, therefore, I stopped on my way in, got there around 8:50, joined the line (which was only about eight people long), and prepared for joy. Alas! They had no shipment today. We should come back tomorrow.
So I did.
Arriving at 8:45, no one else seemed to be on line. Bonus! There was a whole mob of people right along the edge of the street which appeared to be spillover from the Today Show about 20' away around the corner, where some group I couldn't care less about was playing a live show, but no one in the Line Spot from yesterday. So I made me a line, and waited, and waited. 9:02, salesman unlocks door. "What are you here for?" "Wii Fit." "Do you have an armband?" "...no. What armband? I came yesterday, they said there weren't any and just come back tomorrow." He said nothing actually about where one gets an armband, but gestured to the 60-man line that I thought was for the Today Show. They did indeed have armbands. I don't know how, since no one had come out of the store. Perhaps they'd come the day before. Perhaps they made them out of leftover Today Show garbage. I did not stick around to find out, since I was already late for work.
Fuck this shit with a large toaster fork.
So I did.
Arriving at 8:45, no one else seemed to be on line. Bonus! There was a whole mob of people right along the edge of the street which appeared to be spillover from the Today Show about 20' away around the corner, where some group I couldn't care less about was playing a live show, but no one in the Line Spot from yesterday. So I made me a line, and waited, and waited. 9:02, salesman unlocks door. "What are you here for?" "Wii Fit." "Do you have an armband?" "...no. What armband? I came yesterday, they said there weren't any and just come back tomorrow." He said nothing actually about where one gets an armband, but gestured to the 60-man line that I thought was for the Today Show. They did indeed have armbands. I don't know how, since no one had come out of the store. Perhaps they'd come the day before. Perhaps they made them out of leftover Today Show garbage. I did not stick around to find out, since I was already late for work.
Fuck this shit with a large toaster fork.
