Dec 15
Weirdos at Funcoland
I seem to encounter the most odd people when I go to my local Funcoland video game store. Today there was a guy standing at the counter with a woman. A quick glance gave me the impression that they were a couple in their late 20s. Their conversation goes something like this.
Dude: ‘Oh, Eragon, that is that dragon movie. Have you seen it?’
Woman: (must have shaken her head ‘no’, as I didn’t hear anything)
Dude: ‘Oh, I think it comes out on Friday. Yeah, it has a dragon in it. Kinda like Dragonheart, but this dragon doesn’t talk.’
Woman: chuckles
I keep catching bits of their conversation and at one point the woman points out, in a very motherly way, ‘well, it is your money’. And the guy giggles back ‘Yeah, it is.’
So I have to check these two out and it turns out to be a mom and her son, where the son looks way too old to be in this game store with his mother having this conversation.
However, this doesn’t top the time a kid was bringing back a game, claiming he had no idea it was an ‘adventure’ game. He thought it was a ‘fighting’ game. He didn’t know it was an ‘adventure’ game, otherwise he wouldn’t have bought it. This went on for a good five to ten minutes and plenty loud enough for the whole store to hear. It also prompted my friend Greg and I to proclaim things like..
“I thought this was a fighting ball of yarn, but it turns out it is just an adventure ball of yarn. What a let down.”
Anyway, you have to admire that sort of confidence. He knows what he likes and he doesn’t care who hears about it. He’ll broadcast it to the moon if he has to. He does not, by any means, like adventure games. That is all there is to it. Period!
I have to put this all in perspective though. I was the 33 year old guy huntched over the DS Lite station playing Elite Beat Agents and getting pretty psyched about it. So I guess I don’t have too much room to talk here. At least I didn’t bring my mother.