I believe in mercy killings.

So I’m on my way home from work; Leslie called and asked me to stop at the store to pick up spaghetti noodles and Fresca (mmm, citrusy goodness). I’m coming home from BJC this evening, so I take I44 to Laclede Stn Rd. No grocery stores on a direct route. Shit.

‘Aha!’ I think to myself. ‘There’s a WallyWorld on the way home, and they have groceries; I’ll just stop there.’

While in WallyWorld I recall that hella-cool helicopter WB gave Alden for his B-Day. Alden said they had them at WallyWorld–mental note, must get ‘copter.

So I go searching for the ‘copter…. lots of crappy Transformers toys, no ‘copter. Grrr. Ooh boy, Robosapien. I had one of those-it sucked. Now they have a Robosapien Dinosaur… hmm, maybe I could terrorize Dexter with that. Hmmm, for $60, it could be just as crappy as the robot. Let’s keep looking.

I scour the toy isles to no avail. I decide it’s time to look for a new 360 game. Hmm, played that, that looks stupid, nothing new that looks any good. Ooh, what’s this? A lone Wii box in the Wii display? I thought those were still impossible to find.

I go find Todd the Troglodyte. “Yeah, we got a shipment in 3 days ago, that’s the last one. They’re flying off the shelves.” Shit. A quick check of eBay–they’re not cheap, but not selling for the $$$ they were a couple of months ago. But still going for ~$350; this is $250. Shit.

So of course I buy it, along with Wii Play and an extra nunchuck–$340 with tax, still better than ebay. It’s sitting on the dining room table right now–I’m in the same position I was when I bought the 360. Take it back, sell it on eBay, or open it and play the fucking thing. What’s your vote?

On another note; the Maplehood WallyWorld is really the best place to find electronics. Not so ghetto they don’t carry the good stuff, but ghetto enough that most of the obligate-mouth-breathing patrons can’t afford it. This, BTW, is the same place I found the 360 when everyone else was sold out and they were going for $800 on eBay.