I very recently bought an Xbox from my friend with a wirless controller and a whole box full of good stuff for $60.  He's for the most part my pretty close bud right now.  I suppose i caught him at the moment for this crazy deal.  He had just bought an Xbox 360 and was desperately in need of a game, and i'm pretty sure he would have sold me the carpet from his room if i'd have let him too.

So here I am with this sweet cheap Xbox and absolutely no games for it.  I happened to be in Lincoln for the weekend on a retreat with my youth group and saw a Gamerz across the road as we went out to eat.  I decided that they may have a copy of Halo to start out with and I was willing to sacrifice my eating time for video games.  Don't judge, you know you've done it at one time or another.

I walk in the store and there's this one guy standing behind the counter and i suppose he thought it was really cool to stare at customers when they came in the door.  I personally found it a little awkward, but that's ok, I can get over it.  I found Halo without a problem, seeing as how there was at least eight copies on the wall, not counting the new copies.  Just as I'm about to get to the counter to check out, this guy walks in and cuts me. 

For about ten minutes this guy and the clerk talk about their lives on World of Warcraft and how they can't wait to get D&D Online.  When they finally finish the guy comes to the counter and is like, "sooo, can I help you or somethin".  At this point I kinda wanted to walk out at this point, because I was growing impacient and to be honest, the place smelled a little wierd, but that's beside the point!

First the guy wants to see my ID.  So I think, no big deal, he just wants to make sure I'm of age and all.  But then it gets wierd.  He procedes to ask me for my phone number, address, age, email, sn, and i don't remember what all else.  I guess they make a habit of knowing the life's story of everyone who buys a used copy of Halo for $4.99, and I was that day's lucky winner.  Who knows.

Five hours later I get to my house and run downstairs to my room to play me some Halo.  But NO, I get the infamous and dreaded disc error!  I was up until around 3am trying to get that thing to work, using all kinds of unconventional methods that I found on the internet.  Just so ya know, a combination of car wax, Pledge, and soap and water treatments will usually do the job for minor scratches(and don't use toothpaste, it'll scratch it).

I ended up getting a new copy of Halo and it works just fine thank goodness, but I must say that i'll stick with EB pretty much from now on.  They are a fantastic store full of people who won't treat you like crap, will talk games with you if you wish, and are always reliable.  They come highly recommended from me anyway.  And as to the guy from Gamerz, man maybe you were just having a bad day, but try to resist the urge to steal my identity from all the info you got off me.