XBOX 360: Postscript
So, this weekend Tina and I were visiting some friends, when I related my pathetic (and failed) attempt to get my hands on an XBOX 360.
“Well, I had my hands on an XBOX 360,” my friend told me. This certainly piqued my curiousity, especially since I did not observe the mystical console sitting inside his entertainment center.
He went on to tell me about his extremely unique launch day experience. As a Sears employee, he was surprised to find about thirty young men lined up in front of their store on the morning of Tuesday, November 22. Apparently, this was because they were waiting for the store to open so they could each score an easy XBOX 360.
When the doors opened, they rushed the electronics department to find no 360’s to be had. Because, as my friend said it: “We’re Sears.”
Apparently, Sears is not exactly the top tier when it comes to gaming consoles.
However, this wasn’t totally the case. Later that day, my friend signed for a mysterious delivery from Microsoft — two XBOX 360 core systems. Unsure of what to do, he took the systems and stashed them in the warehouse, high up behind the television sets.
Later, two of his colleagues approached him. They’d heard a rumor that he signed for two XBOX 360’s. He couldn’t deny it, so he told them that he’d hidden the 360’s in the warehouse.
After a pause one of them nodded sagely. “Good work,” he said, “that was exactly the right thing to do.”
Not knowing how to distribute the two system to the throngs of people who desperately sought them, they now sit hidden in a Sears warehouse like the Lost of Ark of the Covenant, mystical radiation produced by their heavenly powers kill rats and driving Sears employees insane.
And so gentle reader, I leave you with the legend. Somewhere in the United States of America, two XBOX 360 core systems sit unpurchased in a Sears back room, stashed away from the hungry masses. But what city they reside in I refuse to say, except to tell you that there is no Sears within the limits of my own home city of Washington, D.C. And my friend flatly refused to sell one of them to me. But perhaps you could be luckier?
Good luck and godspeed.
