Raulandpinboy
<font color=blue>Table-dancing auctioneer<br><font
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- Jul 15, 2001
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Yes for I have seen what Satan's home world will be like, for you see I was Wall-Mart at 5:30 this morning.
If pin trading has taught me one thing its patience in the long lines, I was lucky, unlike the hundreds of others who were not trained for this type of commando early morning maneuvers.
I learned to sit in line and wait my turn, I learned to talk to my fellow person next to me and make light conversation, and my most valuable lesson I learned to go the place the night before and find out where the voucher for the pins Errr I mean digital camera's will be handed out.
The few five hundred or so amateurs that showed up to get the 100 Samsung 27inch TV's on sale for $148.00, and the other 2000 or so that wanted one of the 250 Kodak Digital cameras. I'm sorry but next time spend a few days with us at Disney standing in line for pins and we will teach you the do's and don'ts of how to get what you want.
So now thats it all over I would like to say .
To the lady that tried to kill sixty or so customers with her shopping cart when she found out the TV's were on the other aisle, and they were just handing them out to whomever was next to the pile of them. (I told you your silly line that you created meant nothing)
To the lady that screamed when the manager said only one game boy advanced per person, are we to blame if you have three kids at home, rule number #3 of pin acquisition (two pins per person if the pins are LE, and the persons must be present to purchase) and really ordering the only three men in line to give them up and give them to you that was wrong.
To the lady not strong enough to hold on to the DVD player that was tossed to her and having it snatched from her hands by the little old lady behind her, ma'am if you noticed that little old lady had a Walt Disney Sweater on, and the true signs of a lanyard burn were visible around her neck, you were dealing with a pro and did not stand a chance, yelling all those foul words only made the crowd laugh and all the pin traders there in secret just snicker quietly.
To the man who said over and over and over again this is impossible we can't be everywhere at once, how can we be here for the TV and there for the camera, and then standing over in that isle for the DVD, and wait in the other line to get the game boy. Well sir any pin trader will know how many troops to bring and where to place them and if your low in numbers pair up with other members of another pin house and divide and conquer. In other words you sir were not prepared "You are the weakest link goodbye"
And last Thank you Thank you my friends my pin pals for teaching me all the lessons I needed to make this a hoot of a day, the planning the strategies, the knowledge to make me a master of the game all paid off. From 5:30 am to now 11:30 am. My shopping is done I got everything I wanted, and even had time to trade for a grumpy head with the little old lady at Wall-Mart (She owed me, after all I deflected that DVD her way a bit of nepotism you might say) I will wear my grumpy head proudly as I now go off to the parks to spend the rest of my day with my pin family and friends. Letting the few miserable souls still looking for the CDR rewritable CD-ROM available for $9.99 after rebates I got mine. Thanks pin pals.
The morning in brief detail
5:30am to 7:00am Wall-Mart long lines I had a person at the registers from the minute we got there. Another family at cameras, me at TV's and Electronics Donna safe in lady lingerie and making a mad dash for electronic toys when the manager came out at 6:30 with a restocking box.
7:15am to 7:30am Best buy no parking anywhere, and the wonderful Orange county police department though it was a good day to check license plates, thus leaving police cars scattered all over the parking lot adding to the confusion. Abandoned this idea and headed to Staples.
7:45am to 8:45am no parking had Donna fake a heart attack and ran inside got everything except web cameras on sale for $9 drat on to the next.
8:55am to 9:10am Kmart its safe again since they dropped Martha Stewart, parking was easy got in got out no hassles bought nothing since they had nothing that was supposed to be on sale, boy did they look silly.. Got a bunch of rain checks though fine "I'll be back"
9:20am to 11:00am Best Buy got lucky found parking spot in front of store this saved ½ hour at least got to the front of the building a woman drove by and called me a jerk seems she saw the parking spot from the turnpike and declared it hers and in the name of the province of Quebec her home town. Went inside and found no carts got the last of almost everything checked out just as they announced the sales where now over. We ran out just as the X-boxes started to fly the look of fear in the manager's eyes spoke volumes as we knew we will never see any of them again.
On a side note for those of you shopping today, remember your training at pin gorilla camp, use the force and be at one with the universe. Anyway it 65 degrees outside
ED and Donna you just went shopping on the craziest day in the universe, what are you doing next? "We're going to Disney World"
We have to Manny and Michelle are there waiting for us so beware evil doer's where ever you are .. the Manuello brothers will soon be getting together .
If pin trading has taught me one thing its patience in the long lines, I was lucky, unlike the hundreds of others who were not trained for this type of commando early morning maneuvers.
I learned to sit in line and wait my turn, I learned to talk to my fellow person next to me and make light conversation, and my most valuable lesson I learned to go the place the night before and find out where the voucher for the pins Errr I mean digital camera's will be handed out.
The few five hundred or so amateurs that showed up to get the 100 Samsung 27inch TV's on sale for $148.00, and the other 2000 or so that wanted one of the 250 Kodak Digital cameras. I'm sorry but next time spend a few days with us at Disney standing in line for pins and we will teach you the do's and don'ts of how to get what you want.
So now thats it all over I would like to say .
To the lady that tried to kill sixty or so customers with her shopping cart when she found out the TV's were on the other aisle, and they were just handing them out to whomever was next to the pile of them. (I told you your silly line that you created meant nothing)
To the lady that screamed when the manager said only one game boy advanced per person, are we to blame if you have three kids at home, rule number #3 of pin acquisition (two pins per person if the pins are LE, and the persons must be present to purchase) and really ordering the only three men in line to give them up and give them to you that was wrong.
To the lady not strong enough to hold on to the DVD player that was tossed to her and having it snatched from her hands by the little old lady behind her, ma'am if you noticed that little old lady had a Walt Disney Sweater on, and the true signs of a lanyard burn were visible around her neck, you were dealing with a pro and did not stand a chance, yelling all those foul words only made the crowd laugh and all the pin traders there in secret just snicker quietly.
To the man who said over and over and over again this is impossible we can't be everywhere at once, how can we be here for the TV and there for the camera, and then standing over in that isle for the DVD, and wait in the other line to get the game boy. Well sir any pin trader will know how many troops to bring and where to place them and if your low in numbers pair up with other members of another pin house and divide and conquer. In other words you sir were not prepared "You are the weakest link goodbye"
And last Thank you Thank you my friends my pin pals for teaching me all the lessons I needed to make this a hoot of a day, the planning the strategies, the knowledge to make me a master of the game all paid off. From 5:30 am to now 11:30 am. My shopping is done I got everything I wanted, and even had time to trade for a grumpy head with the little old lady at Wall-Mart (She owed me, after all I deflected that DVD her way a bit of nepotism you might say) I will wear my grumpy head proudly as I now go off to the parks to spend the rest of my day with my pin family and friends. Letting the few miserable souls still looking for the CDR rewritable CD-ROM available for $9.99 after rebates I got mine. Thanks pin pals.
The morning in brief detail
5:30am to 7:00am Wall-Mart long lines I had a person at the registers from the minute we got there. Another family at cameras, me at TV's and Electronics Donna safe in lady lingerie and making a mad dash for electronic toys when the manager came out at 6:30 with a restocking box.
7:15am to 7:30am Best buy no parking anywhere, and the wonderful Orange county police department though it was a good day to check license plates, thus leaving police cars scattered all over the parking lot adding to the confusion. Abandoned this idea and headed to Staples.
7:45am to 8:45am no parking had Donna fake a heart attack and ran inside got everything except web cameras on sale for $9 drat on to the next.
8:55am to 9:10am Kmart its safe again since they dropped Martha Stewart, parking was easy got in got out no hassles bought nothing since they had nothing that was supposed to be on sale, boy did they look silly.. Got a bunch of rain checks though fine "I'll be back"
9:20am to 11:00am Best Buy got lucky found parking spot in front of store this saved ½ hour at least got to the front of the building a woman drove by and called me a jerk seems she saw the parking spot from the turnpike and declared it hers and in the name of the province of Quebec her home town. Went inside and found no carts got the last of almost everything checked out just as they announced the sales where now over. We ran out just as the X-boxes started to fly the look of fear in the manager's eyes spoke volumes as we knew we will never see any of them again.
On a side note for those of you shopping today, remember your training at pin gorilla camp, use the force and be at one with the universe. Anyway it 65 degrees outside
ED and Donna you just went shopping on the craziest day in the universe, what are you doing next? "We're going to Disney World"
We have to Manny and Michelle are there waiting for us so beware evil doer's where ever you are .. the Manuello brothers will soon be getting together .
