A Wii Bit Early

I set my alarm for 6am on Sunday. And I hopped out of bed a few minutes before it went off. Mrs. iFlipFlop said, "Want me to go?" I said, "Nah, I'll go over there."

It was in the wee of the morning, and I was seeking a Wii at Circuit City. A clerk at Circuit City had whispered to Mrs. iFlipFlop that 20 Wii units would be up for sale first thing Sunday morning. "Don't tell anyone." I guess we weren't the only ones she told.

I popped by Starbucks (did you know they open at 6am on Sunday mornings?), got a skimmed latte, and was ready to be first in line at Circuit City. I was prepared - hat, gloves, warm coat, Sunday paper, smiling attitude. Then I rounded the corner into the parking lot. Wii-Mania!

I was 47th in line at 6:20am. Plus, there were pros in line - people with down sleeping bags and pup tents and even more little scumbags waiting in cars. It was a nightmare. I talked to a few people for a while, even the contingent who swooped over from Best Buy that morning after finding out that they were woefully short of Wii-z. (Okay, I don't like the look of the plural of Wii, which is Wiis.) A buzz was going through the crowd. And it wasn't a good buzz. More like, "They don't even have 20 of them here." And that fact was sadly affirmed about 10 minutes later, at about 6:45. A store employee put up a sign in the front window saying, "Sorry, but we didn't even get the 20 we advertised that would be here." They should have just written SUCKERS and sent us on our way.

There was some good to come out of all that, though. I took the picture below at 7:09am that morning when I came home and took Snickers the Wonder Dog out for a walk. We saw a beautiful sunrise. Wii like sunrises.

Sunrise Sunday Morning