Brother can you spare a cartridge?
Saw a strange sight today... walking through the city (
Sydney,
Australia) streets around 9 this evening when I found my self walking towards a guy asking for
money. Well not actually asking.. he had a
Burger King wrapper laid out in front of his sitting spot to collect coins.
Well I guess he's not asking for food money.. even though there were a couple of
coins sitting on the wrapper.
Then looking closer at what was in his hands, not the usual "NEED MONEY FOR FOOD + ACCOM" sign, but he had a
Gameboy, and he was fully engrossed in whatever he was playing on it, instead of looking emploringly at passers by!
I mean dude, you need to
market yourself better.. what were you saving up for?
Mario Kart?
3 for $50 => $16.67 each?
The other
strange thing that happened was that I went to buy a copy of "
This is Spinal Tap" on
DVD. It was on a rack that prominently said "3 DVD's for $50". Looking at the selection it referred to, I couldn't see much else I was interested in so I decided to pay the
sticker price ($29.95) and get it anyway because I'd been looking for it for a while. Going to the cashier I had $30.00 ready to pay for it and she rung up the
price, it came to $16.67. I
deftly stuffed the $10 back into my wallet and handed her the
money in that "Yeah I knew that, I just like
flashing money around" way, thinking maybe I'll be getting away with
ripping off this particular
department store chain. She either noticed me
flailing money about, or caught my
quizzical look because she then
proceeded to say,
"Oh yeah, that's part of the 3 for $50 deal, they are in the
system at that price."
Wow, some
system. I just imagine how many people got stuck with a copy of "
Stallone:
Cobra" and "
Deuce Bigalow" and paid $50 thinking they were getting a good
deal on the
DVD they actually wanted.
(Don't be scared at the prices nice
USAians, those are
Aussie dollars, and worth less than
Steve Irwins first pair of underwear.)