A pretty amazing thing happened to me today.  I went out to get a Wii and had a hard time getting one.  It was only amazing to me because I thought that the people that live in my area wouldn't care about the Wii.  Well I was wrong. 

I headed up to the W Appleton Best Buy and arrived around 8am, only to see a line of about 40-50 people.  I sped out of the lot and went to the E Appleton Best Buy only to be told that there were only 15 and I wasn't going to be getting one.  The next trip was back to the otherside of town to line up at the Toys R Us.  Seemed like that was going to be my lucky ticket...if they had any left.  They only had 15 Wii's and I was number 17.  So close!

A little dejected I gazed across the parking lots to the Sears connected to the Fox River Mall.  I laughed and thought to myself "Why not?"  A quick hike over to Sears and I lined up with one of the guys that also was too late to Toys R Us.  I stayed, but he decided to leave.  Big mistake.  If he would have stayed he would have gotten one.

The nice thing was that the next person to arrive was a mother who was getting one for her son for Christmas.  Some other people arrived and we organized and had it set up that I was 1, the mother was 2, and everyone else just got a number as they arrived.  The mother that was #2 said that she asked an employee on Saturday if they were going to get any and she was told that there would be 2.  2!!! 

I got there when it was 8:15am and the store didn't open till 11am so there was some time for discussions and confidence building for the people who were 3 on back.  Around 10am with some help from one of the other people standing in line we were given the word that there were only 2.  True to everyone's words, I was #1 and the mother was #2.  No one was upset and everyone said there goodbyes and we got our "tickets" and ran for shelter where there was warmth.

After warming up 11am came around and I got my Wii, along with Zelda and and extra Wiimote.  Lot of patience, and some good luck and I'm happy as can be.  Played some Wii Sports boxing and burned off any of built up frustration.  Got some homework to do before I start Zelda...but I also have 2 days off of work to play some Zelda, and I couldn't be happier. :)