Roach Motel

During the whole Tux Ordeal this past weekend, I decided to step out of the store and get some fresh air. There just so happened to be a locally owned video game store directly across from the After Hours store. That’s exactly what I needed to get the ol’ blood pressure down. I walk into this store and its as if I’ve died and gone to gamer heaven. They had everything from just about every console game ever made. Atari to NES to Sega CD to Neo Geo and so on.

It was bliss. I didn’t know where to begin.

While I was looking over their massive load of games, the guy behind the counter had a Xbox open and was taking a soldering iron to it. He looks up at me and says, “You know, I just don’t believe some people.”

“How so?”

“Well…roaches. How hard is it to figure out you have a roach problem? I understand that people get roaches but not doing anything about them is another thing. For example, I can always tell when a house has a new or old roach problem. When I take off the top of a console and the roaches scatter, that’s a new roach problem. If I take off a top and the roaches just look up at me like, ‘Yeah, I know, I’m not supposed to be here.’ and slowly move back into the shadows…that’s an old roach problem. Those people have had roaches for so long they don’t care. Which sucks for me either way because I have to clean out the fried roaches and fix their console.”

“Wow”

“Yeah…but hey, do you know what I enjoy? Call them back to let them know roaches fried their system. Hey, I’ve gotta call this guy back to let him know that I’ve fixed his Xbox. You want to stick around for this?”

“Sure!”

Sadly he got the dude’s answering machine. But true to his word, he told the Xbox owner that roaches fried his system and he should probably call an exterminator. In the meantime, he should put mothballs around his Xbox to prevent future infestations.

At any rate, I got a smile out of it and found some Sega CD games I’d been looking for.

Now you too can walk around like you are on a reality TV show.

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