Action Jack (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} actionjack) wrote,@ 2008-12-28 16:38:00 |
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A tangled web
A lot of video games changed hands in the Rinsky household in the last month. Let me pitch you the whole soap opera- you don't need to know anything about video games to follow this (I drop names for reference only):
When I came home for Thanksgiving, my brother Isaac splurged and bought me a shiny new Xbox 360 from Microcenter. Included were two games: Fallout 3 (from my cousins), and Fable 2 (from my parents).
But I didn't want Fable 2, so I went with my father to exchange it for Left 4 Dead. But Microcenter didn't have any copies, and they would only give us store credit. We talked them into refunding the price of game on Isaac's credit card, then we went to Best Buy and my dad bought me Left 4 Dead. But Isaac was no longer in town at that point, so at press time he still owes them a reimbursement.
Isaac also told me he has a copy of Fallout 3 that he's not using anymore, so if I left mine in the package I could have his and then exchange it. I stared at it on my mantle for all of last month, and then sure enough, he gave me his this past weekend. But he left his receipt in Columbus, and I left my shrinkwrapped copy in Chicago. So when he comes up to visit in February, we will take the game and the receipt to Microcenter Chicago and put an end to this business once and for all.
Oh, and Isaac didn't make a gift list for the Rinsky Family Non-Denominational Holiday Funtime Fiesta. So I gave him a little coin purse stuffed with $64.04 (the price of an Xbox 360 game after Franklin County sales tax). He used it to buy Fable 2.
But all the complication was worth it when I popped in Fallout 3 last night, and the character creation screen informed me that I could give my protagonist a "muttonstache."
A lot of video games changed hands in the Rinsky household in the last month. Let me pitch you the whole soap opera- you don't need to know anything about video games to follow this (I drop names for reference only):
When I came home for Thanksgiving, my brother Isaac splurged and bought me a shiny new Xbox 360 from Microcenter. Included were two games: Fallout 3 (from my cousins), and Fable 2 (from my parents).
But I didn't want Fable 2, so I went with my father to exchange it for Left 4 Dead. But Microcenter didn't have any copies, and they would only give us store credit. We talked them into refunding the price of game on Isaac's credit card, then we went to Best Buy and my dad bought me Left 4 Dead. But Isaac was no longer in town at that point, so at press time he still owes them a reimbursement.
Isaac also told me he has a copy of Fallout 3 that he's not using anymore, so if I left mine in the package I could have his and then exchange it. I stared at it on my mantle for all of last month, and then sure enough, he gave me his this past weekend. But he left his receipt in Columbus, and I left my shrinkwrapped copy in Chicago. So when he comes up to visit in February, we will take the game and the receipt to Microcenter Chicago and put an end to this business once and for all.
Oh, and Isaac didn't make a gift list for the Rinsky Family Non-Denominational Holiday Funtime Fiesta. So I gave him a little coin purse stuffed with $64.04 (the price of an Xbox 360 game after Franklin County sales tax). He used it to buy Fable 2.
But all the complication was worth it when I popped in Fallout 3 last night, and the character creation screen informed me that I could give my protagonist a "muttonstache."
