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June 13, 2006
Do you have a one-piece?
Granny gave Jack some birthday money. Jack would like to use it to buy a Game Cube game called One Piece something.
I had hoped it was a game involving Swim Suit Models and that maybe Jack would let me borrow it when he was at his mother's.
The game, as it happens, is called ... One Piece: Grand Battle. (Which does not necessarily mean that it isn't about swimsuit models, I guess. Seeing them battle might be interesting.)
Sunday evening we went to Target only to find they didn't have it. We then went to EB games to find them closed. Meijer didn't have it either.
I told Jack we'd go by EB Games Monday evening.
Monday I decided to surprise Jack and pick the game up at lunch. I made the trek to EB Games and applied a keen eye to the shelves -- there was no One Piece.
I asked the guy behind the counter if he was familiar with the game. He said he was, he knew they were out, and he knew the game had been discontinued.
I asked if he'd write, on the back of it, "I am out of One Piece. I don't think Wal-Mart has it either." He did.
On the way back to work I stopped by the house to visit with Jack. I showed him the note and explained that a new One Piece: Pirates something was going to be released in September. Jack asked if we could continue the search after work ... well, he asked if we could do it immediately and I told him I had to go back to work.
After work Jack asked about the game again. I told him it looked like we'd exhausted most of our resources and asked if I didn't at least get partial credit for looking for the game at lunch. Jack told me I did get credit for the lunchtime journey and then continued to politely suggest his need had not yet been met.
I looked over at my dad and asked, "Dad. When I was Jack's age how many times did you run me all over the city looking for Game Cube games?"
"Never," replied Big D.
"That's because the wheel hadn't been invented yet and it was too hard to go anywhere," chimed in my oldest.
As it happens, we did have the wheel when I was Jack's age. Fire was well known. And I'm pretty sure we'd gotten our first color TV by then.
Today at lunch I went for a haircut. Next to my barber's is a non-chain video store. While they didn't have a One Piece: Grand Battle, I got a line on one there: EB Games. The same EB Games I'd been in yesterday. When I told the line-giver that I'd been to EB Games yesterday and they'd been out she told me (and this was a customer) that she'd just left and they had one now.
I drove over. They did have a One Piece: Grand Adventure ... for the PS2. (The line-giver at one time had an awareness that I was looking for a GC game, as she'd repeated it to me. However, in a man-like fashion she slipped up somewhere between forming a thought and expressing it verbally.)
I eventually placed an order with Amazon. They have it all. All the time.
Posted by delmer at June 13, 2006 8:34 AM
Comments
Yes, we had the wheel, fire, and even color TVs when we were Jack's age...but we didn't have Amazon.com. ;-) (And we had to walk up hill going to AND coming home from school!)
Posted by: Missy at June 13, 2006 9:58 PM
In the snow, Missy. You left out the snow.
Posted by: Rob at June 14, 2006 10:02 AM