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Today a man summed up a my job (or at least a portion of it) in the most succinct and accurate way:
"Do you ever get really bratty kids in here? I'm sure you see the worst, a bunch of kids running around and screaming, demanding things. and I bet their parents let them too. It must be like having a bunch of little drunks running around, and you're there pulling the tap thinking 'Well, this isn't a good idea.'"
That is EXACTLY what it's like half of the time. The other half is dealing with blindingly idiotic people asking questions like: "Do you have the tape for that game?" Which, if they spoke english would translate to: "Do you have Mario Party 7 for the Nintendo Gamecube?" And the ever amazing "Can I get that game, you know, that Sony game?" Which means they want the PS2. And as confusing as mistaking systems for games could be it would be excusable if they didn't know that games were, well, called games, yet they do, which leads to this: "Do you have the game for the game?" Say that out loud, see if it makes sense. Don't say it too many times, your ears WILL bleed, but just say it enough to take in what little sense it makes. Then pretend that you expect someone else to understand exactly what you meant. I dare you not to black out from the sheer insanity.
Anybody up for coming up with a clever analogy for that particular brand of madness? I figure now that somebody hit the nail on the head for the obnoxious kids aspect, some one now needs to further simplify my job into a handy sentence or two. That way, when people ask me what I do for a living I can say "I get little drunk children even further shit-faced and (insert other analogy here)."
I'll buy the winner a beer.
Oh, and maybe somebody can clear this up for me. Do people even buy VHS tapes any more? Do they even make them? And as far as I can tell, they've never made video games on a tape format, have they? Cause it's the hot word of the season, next to the ever popular catch all "game" which was mysteriously popularized last year.
"Do you ever get really bratty kids in here? I'm sure you see the worst, a bunch of kids running around and screaming, demanding things. and I bet their parents let them too. It must be like having a bunch of little drunks running around, and you're there pulling the tap thinking 'Well, this isn't a good idea.'"
That is EXACTLY what it's like half of the time. The other half is dealing with blindingly idiotic people asking questions like: "Do you have the tape for that game?" Which, if they spoke english would translate to: "Do you have Mario Party 7 for the Nintendo Gamecube?" And the ever amazing "Can I get that game, you know, that Sony game?" Which means they want the PS2. And as confusing as mistaking systems for games could be it would be excusable if they didn't know that games were, well, called games, yet they do, which leads to this: "Do you have the game for the game?" Say that out loud, see if it makes sense. Don't say it too many times, your ears WILL bleed, but just say it enough to take in what little sense it makes. Then pretend that you expect someone else to understand exactly what you meant. I dare you not to black out from the sheer insanity.
Anybody up for coming up with a clever analogy for that particular brand of madness? I figure now that somebody hit the nail on the head for the obnoxious kids aspect, some one now needs to further simplify my job into a handy sentence or two. That way, when people ask me what I do for a living I can say "I get little drunk children even further shit-faced and (insert other analogy here)."
I'll buy the winner a beer.
Oh, and maybe somebody can clear this up for me. Do people even buy VHS tapes any more? Do they even make them? And as far as I can tell, they've never made video games on a tape format, have they? Cause it's the hot word of the season, next to the ever popular catch all "game" which was mysteriously popularized last year.