A Tale of Inescapable Luck
I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, and no I'm not
intercontinental when I eat French toast. But I do have some of the
most amazing luck when it comes to my hobby. I believe I may have a
little help, see if you can find evidence of it.
This is where I spend about half of my time enjoying life to the
fullest. I spent two years researching my television, a 56 inch 1080p
DLP, while I scrimped and saved. Two months after buying my tv I was
sent an email saying that the place I had bought it from (name
withheld) had received my return, and refunded me the price. Yes, thats
right I got a $2000 TV for free, and that my friends was just the
start.
A week later as I was looking to upgrade my audio, hesitating at
the looming cost of the speakers I would be investing in I walked by a
street sale and saw those beauties, a pair of very nice 150watt 3-way
speakers. Exactly what I was looking for, at the low low price of $50,
I snatched them up as soon as I saw them.
You may be wondering right now, how the hell did this happen? Why
this schmuck? Well It starts here, with the lack of a Nintendo. I had
one back in the day, and it was my prized possession. While I rarely
played anything worthwhile besides Contra and SMB 3, it was still the
one thing I held near and dear to me. But when my parents bought me
that Genesis there for Christmas one year, I didn't hesitate to give my
Nintendo to my younger cousin who had been asking for one. Similarly
with my my first PSOne when I accidentally damaged my college
roommate's Playstation I owned up, and gave him my middle school
companion. Last weak While at Goodwill I found this one, one of the
original runs with the RCA jacks that was posted about on here a while
ago.
While in Japan on vacation I noticed an older French couple looking
rather lost in Den Den town. I gave them some help looking for a game
store, and a few minutes later found that Navy Blue DS for about 5,000
yen below average. Also I like my Super Famicom.
I have also been blessed with a very nice set of computers both at good values.
I also make sure not to buy games used, and rather than sell my old
games back to retailers, I let my friends have the ones I don't want.
To reward me the universe has given me a friend who got a job at
Insomniac who got me this copy of Ratchet signed by everyone at the
company.
Pretty much what I'm saying is that good karma can go a long way
for a gamer, and while we may not all be able to afford everything we
want, maybe we can try to take care of each other and we won't have to
worry about whether or not we'll be taken care of in turn.
Also, leprechauns help.
http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/mrberns/my-source-of-joy-78700.phtml
