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We wait for Wii (Bible Belt edition)
After reading about the PS3 pre-order debacle at the local GameStop, I decided to drive the extra five miles to the Athens, GA EB Games inside the local mall. At 8:30 a.m., 90 minutes before the store opened, seven people were waiting in a broken circle. Most people had shown up 7:30 or later, but one gentleman, Hasan, arrived at 5:30 a.m. (one of the perks of being a mall employee is that you can show up before the mall even opens).Fifteen minutes pass and the crowd nearly doubles to 12 people and two DS phats. No one seems worried about getting a Wii; the general consensus is that every store gets about 14 Wii consoles, with maybe two going to EB Games employees. We all decide to form a line. "Just because it seems right," notes one college student.A rather boastful security guard walks up, shakes his gun holster and asks, "y'all got tickets?" We all look at each other inquisitively until he announces, "well that sucks, I got to get my Wii first." As he walks to the end of the line, one heckler calls out, "I got speeding tickets if you want those!"
