It's been about a week since i was up north, but two tuings have jumped out and caught my attention as being noteworthy but i think i can safely file them under the title Damn, Dude!
Ok, the day i pull into town i decided i wanted to go get a movie from the video store. a night of beautiful inertness on the couch sounded really inviting so i jumped into the car to go get the necessary provisions. On my way to video store number 1 i noticed red flashing lights in my rearview. Fortunately the cop was not after me but it still kind of gave me a jolt. The cop stopped some guy right across the street from video store 1. I went in to look for my movie thinking 'wow, sucks to be that guy.'
I looked around in the video store and they didn't have the two movies i wanted so i walked outside and started my car. Just before i get back onto the street, the same cop comes barrelling out of whatever hidden area he was in and pulls over some other guy at the same freakin spot! i was like "woah, this cop is gonna make quota tonight!"
i drove a little ways to video store number 2 with a bigger selection but still neither of the two i was looking for. I headed back towards home debating on whether or not to waste my time trying to check at video store number 3 for my movies when i reached a red light at the intersection whee video store 1 sits. while i watched the same cop pulls out and gives a ticket to some other guy! Please keep in mind that this all happened in the space of about 20 minutes!
I decided to go home and stay off the road for the evening if the cops were going to be that strict.
The second thing that i thought was funny happened about a week later. I was at the video game store browsing around in the racks when i heardone of the clerks start talking to a girl. I glanced out from behind the racks and saw that the girl was kind of good looking, but i wasn't there looking for girls. I was there with the intent of getting information on a game i heard about at E3 and maybe picking up a game to tide me over till that game came out.
The girl asked the clerk if he had seen...one of the other clerks. i don't remember his name. we'll call him Itchy.
It turned out Itchy was in the back so he came out and started talking to this girl, asking her how school had been, asking all sorts of questions about mutual friends they had had or didn't have any more and varios other things. It was really hard to ignore since the shop is so small and was almost deserted. As i listened it became increasingly obvious that they guy was definately hitting on the girl, or at least trying to. I say trying to because he was just doing an awful job (I'm saying this so that should give you an indication of just how bad this guy's skills were)
As i walked up to the counter and stood by the register with my game. Itchy glanced at me and called one of the other clerks from the back. Sleepy came out and started ringing up my purchase and answering my questions about the E3 game when suddenly the girl says "Oh wow, you have Duck Hunt! That's bad ass!" Itchy suddenly was on solid ground. "Oh yeah we do, we even have it where there are three games on the cartridge and not just two!"
Sleepy and i exchanged glances like "what the hell?" Itchy move on, undaunted. "I have a top-loader nintendo system at home."
I looked over at Sleepy and said "Is that the pick-up line the girls all want to hear? 'hey baby, i have a top loader nintendo?'"
Sleepy shrugged. "Must be that special kind of girl." he said. As he finished ringing up the sale we swapped a couple more lines to use on those girls. I'll leave them here for you all to use.
"Hey baby, want to come back to my place and see my high score?"
"You know what? I got ALL of the shine sprites. yeah, you know you want me!"