Luke has been working for me and earning money. Plus he’s been saving his money. Refusing to spend his allowance on anything. He’s obsessively worried that he needs to save for college and try to help me out financially. Sweet boy. (Also High Anxiety so I have to balance these impulses with assurances.)
I keep telling him that this is his earned money and it’s his to do with as he see’s fit. And not to worry so much. We’ll always have enough money to put a roof over our head and food on the table. Just not a new laptop! lol
So I finally convinced him that with his up and coming birthday money plus the money he’s saved & earned… he can buy the PS3 he’s wanted (wanted ever since Sex God brought over HIS PS3 for a week when Playstation was offline & let my boys play with it). I’ve been replying that he can buy his own for weeks now and today he brought it up again.
And I realized if I didn’t pop him over to GameStop right after dinner it would get put off and put off until his REAL birthday. With only 2 weeks of school left I thought this would really make his summer. So off we went!
I love my GameStop. 🙂 They recognize me! No really, they do! Its not like I go in so often that, of course they recognize me; the harassed parent who buys her kids electronics. It’s that I flirt and smile and so of course they remember me! Hee hee. Such cute Cubs those employees! 🙂
Anyway.. less than 3 hours before we walked in they had lowered the price of a NEW PS3 by $50.00. Putting it into the price range of their mid-memory used one! Nice! Then Oliver comes in from the back with one that includes the exact game Luke’s wanted to play (which would have been another $60) and it has twice the memory. Well, we snatched that up!
Hooking it up wasn’t too difficult (once I got past the point of realizing the reason nothing would turn on after I plugged it all in was because in switching this plug with that plug & putting this plug into the extension and that plug into the strip…. I’d inadvertently plugged the strip into itself!). And Luke took over at that point like a master!
When he popped the game in I recognized it and asked him if he’d not played it already when Sex God lent him his consol? He swore he’d not but it nagged at me. Until I realized it wasn’t HIM I’d watched play this game, it was Sex God! With a grin I told Luke, “Well if you want any tips on how to navigate it, let me know. I know them all for the first two levels!”
I soooo never thought I’d ever utter THOSE words!