Oh, the horror! I actually snapped! Dammit I can't believe how badly I hold on to money! So I’ve been telling myself, "Don't buy Final Fantasy X-2 until it becomes a greatest hit" (Note: When a game hits "Greatest Hits" status, the game has to have sold at least 500,000 copies and the price drops usually from 49.99 to 19.99). But then I went to Best Buy today and I saw it for 39.99. That's 10 dollars less, and it was a few months old. I paced around the isles of Best Buy occasionally having to "no" the best buy employee whilst I wondered up and down the same isle for a good 10 minutes. And you know the whole adage about staying in a store for too long. I stayed too long, grabbed Final Fantasy X-2 and got to the counter. AND I GOT CARDED! Woo-hoo! Yeah! I still don't know why though. FFX-2 is rated Teen. Even if it was rated Mature, titles that are mature are 17+ (That's Me!). I looked at the screen and it said, "Please check if date is before 1987" and I was all like, "Shit 1986 is after 1987 right?"

I then went to Barnes and Noble, it's the Virgo hangout...heh actually I was going to KB Toys, and B&N is luckily next door. Any who, I walk right in and I find the toy I’m looking for in B&N! My luck right? It was the travel/zip bag Scrabble; I'm planning to bring it on the 10th during the Playland father's day party. ("Father's day?" - that's what I said) Maybe I could play against George and Aunty Marlette. So I decide to get that, my FF X-2 strategy guide, and a pocket dictionary (instead of the official scrabble book since it was 2 dollars cheaper and was smaller. Hey, I’m here and I have money. Any who, I’m up in the counter and I’m making small talk to the cashier guy (I looked at his tag, his name was "Richard"). So he looks at the strategy guide and is all like, "You a gamer?" and I’m all like "I play occasionally"... the lies, truthfully I really didn't want to talk to him. So he goes, "Yeah, I sorta stopped after SNES (Super Nintendo)". But the conversation wasn't the point. I realized how dorky all the people who work at the Barnes and Noble I go to (no offense to my sister) look. I was in the manga section, flipping through a few "graphic novels" and the woman who is price gunning is all thin, pale and looks like she has never talked to another human. The people who worked at the CD/Movie section looked semi-approachable. The ones at Starbucks were like a step above a McDonald’s person, so they were approachable teens/twentysomethings. But Richard and the two women behind the counter looked like they would drop everything and play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. If I had a choice, for all the good things I love at B&N, I'd get a job at KB Toys. Just so I wouldn't look like a wallflower that reads to learn about the outside world.