Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

Once upon a time there was a little husband named Jake. Jake loved his video games and was always looking for news updates on the computer to find out when the newest versions of games and game systems were being released.

One day, he discovered that his FAVORITE video game manufacturer Nintendo was coming out with a brand new system called Wii (pronounced Whee, or as we like to pronounce it, WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!). But it wasn't going to come out for a long time. It had innovative game playing and a whole new world of games. He waited and waited, and when it came close to Christmas time, he told his wife that he wanted Wii for his Christmas present, since the release date was a few weeks before then. His wife, looking at the price tag, said "no way" and that was that. The little husband was very sad. He decided that he would sacrifice and trade in his other game systems in order to lower the cost of the Wii. He had the Nintendo Game Cube and the newest version of Nintendo Gameboy, plus a few good games that he could get a lot of money for if he traded them in. And with that promise, his wife agreed. The Wii would cost about $320 including taxes, but the trade in value of all his other stuff was to his calculation about $100. And that was okay. Release day was November 19th 2006 for the Wii. Little Jake was so excited the night before, he decided he would go to the store at 7am to try and buy one. His wife told him about the time she was 8 and she and her mom and her sister sat outside a Woolco from 6 in the morning waiting for a Cabbage Patch Kid. She had put nailpolish on the night before, but wasn't allowed to wear nail polish, so this was a naughty thing for her to have done. She was afraid that if her mother saw the nailpolish, she wouldn't let her come on the neat adventure, which happened to be on a school day. In order to hide the nailpolish, she wore some gloves, but then a little birdie flew itself into the window of the store and stunned itself. The caring mother and girls carefully picked it up and let it recover on their hands. The mom and sister laughed as it walked around on their bare skin, and they told the naughty sister with the nailpolish to take off her gloves so she could feel the tickly sensation of the birdy's feet. Wanting to feel the birdy feet, she removed her gloves and the nailpolish was discovered. She was in trouble.

But I've digressed.

So Jake woke up on Sunday, Release Day, half an hour before the alarm he'd set, and went out to wait for a Wii. The first store he went to had a huge crowd, and only 20 systems available, he knew he would have no chance there. As he passed Future Shop, he saw people with tents who'd camped out over night waiting in line. He got what he thought was a good spot in line at Zellers and was hopeful. He was seventh in line, but just before the store opened, the manager came out to say they only had five, and Jake was out of luck again. He came home and was sad. He looked online throughout the day and saw that people were selling them on Ebay, but they were going for anywhere between $600 and $900! That's too much, Bob! said his wife, even tho his name was Jake.

Then Monday, the day after release day, Jake and his wife went out shopping with their two little children. They took Jake's old systems in for trade, and actually got $50 more for it all than he had originally figured. On a whim, the family went to Wal Mart to see when their next shipment of Wii's would be. Jake asked a very young and pimply sales clerk if he knew when they'd be getting more. The clerk said "there's some in the back. I"ll get you one." WHAT? Jake became very excited. They waited and waited for the clerk to come back. They saw another young pimply clerk and mistook him for the one who said he'd go check. Jake asked if he'd found any in back, and the clerk said "no, we don't know when we'll be getting more in. Could be a few weeks." Jake asked his wife if that was the same guy. His wife had forgotten what the original pimply clerk looked like, so they both assumed it was the right guy. They waited a few more minutes, but had lost all hope. They needed a cable for their VCR, so they went to go look for one. Just then, the original pimply clerk showed up with a box of three Wii's! Jake and his wife couldn't believe it! They got one! Jake asked if they could get two, thinking to sell one for profit on Ebay, but there was a limit of one. Oh well. The family hoofed it back to the store where they had a credit, so they could get the necessary games and an extra controller. While there, another customer asked that store clerk if they had any Wii's. Jake volunteered the information that there were two Wii's behind the counter at Wal Mart as of five minutes ago. His wife said "Just ask the twerpy clerk, he'll get you one!" Jake said "they're all twerps" and then to their chagrin, they both noticed at the same time that the second pimply clerk who had told them there were no Wii's was in the store and looking at them. He said "Yeah, he wasn't supposed to sell those ones. The manager had told us not to touch them." Oh well! Jake and his wife felt bad for calling the sales clerks twerps, but their guilt faded quickly as the excitement of owning a Wii overpowered all other emotions.

And they lived happily ever after.

The End.