Me, the Shoulder Devil, and the LED Signboard
There it was, sitting on a shelf in a pawn shop.
ok, wait, hold on. Let's backup for a minute.
Today was spent in downtown Indiana, PA and in the mall of the same name as well. The two main goals of the day were to find hopes of employment and to sell off some old Playstation games that aren't played anymore. since Plan A's hopes were quickly dashed, it was all up to the latter goal. To give you some idea of what Gary's trying to sell, it consists of two Playstation controllers, about ten PS games (all sports titles), two SNES games, and one NES controller. This was the stuff that didn't sell at the yard sale or the flea market.
The first logical stop is Electronics Boutique in the mall. Ok, maybe it wasn't the most logical stop, because if you're a gaming consumer you'll know that any games traded in will probably result in mere pennies in store credit. And, you guessed it, that's what I got: $2.15 for everything in store credit. As the clerk said "enough to buy a pair of fingernail clippers for the guy ahead of you." The guy ahead of me had manicured wolverine fingernails.
The opposite of man hands.
Not wanting to absolutely shafted, he suggests taking the games over to a pawn shop downtown. Best idea I've heard in a while. However, the shop closes at 5 pm and it was about 4:25 when I left the mall, so it was rush time.
Cut to: the pawn shop.
I was already familiar with the place before because I was in there a couple of times when myself and Chris worked at Intersearch in 2000. And fast forwarding 5 years to the present, the same headache inducing pot/nicotine smell of the place was (un)freshly preserved. The guy takes all the games and controllers in exchange for $15 store credit. A far far cry from two packs of gum and sales tax.
Now came the dilemma that remained unfinished: What do you buy with $15 from a pawn shop? Golf clubs? no, already have a set. Playstation games? Have a glass of irony, most of the games were outdated sports titles. TV, DVD Player? already have both, but the parents could use a DVD player. Well, a new one at least.
I'm pretty sure I spent next to an hour trying to find something useful to buy with $15, but looking through the collection of CDs that were more like a "Hits of 1995" selection the hopes were quite dashed. Then came the front window stuff, complete with a few sirens, black lights, and other stuff that was ludicrously overpaid at Spencer's at one time.
and that's where I saw it.
An LED signboard.
and that's when my hopes were again dashed, when the guy said "I don't think that's for sale, buddy." After perusing for a good 15 mins after they closed, they gave me a receipt and I left. and coughed from the fifth-hand smoke inhalation and weird hash smell.
CONTINUED ABOVE
ok, wait, hold on. Let's backup for a minute.
Today was spent in downtown Indiana, PA and in the mall of the same name as well. The two main goals of the day were to find hopes of employment and to sell off some old Playstation games that aren't played anymore. since Plan A's hopes were quickly dashed, it was all up to the latter goal. To give you some idea of what Gary's trying to sell, it consists of two Playstation controllers, about ten PS games (all sports titles), two SNES games, and one NES controller. This was the stuff that didn't sell at the yard sale or the flea market.
The first logical stop is Electronics Boutique in the mall. Ok, maybe it wasn't the most logical stop, because if you're a gaming consumer you'll know that any games traded in will probably result in mere pennies in store credit. And, you guessed it, that's what I got: $2.15 for everything in store credit. As the clerk said "enough to buy a pair of fingernail clippers for the guy ahead of you." The guy ahead of me had manicured wolverine fingernails.
The opposite of man hands.
Not wanting to absolutely shafted, he suggests taking the games over to a pawn shop downtown. Best idea I've heard in a while. However, the shop closes at 5 pm and it was about 4:25 when I left the mall, so it was rush time.
Cut to: the pawn shop.
I was already familiar with the place before because I was in there a couple of times when myself and Chris worked at Intersearch in 2000. And fast forwarding 5 years to the present, the same headache inducing pot/nicotine smell of the place was (un)freshly preserved. The guy takes all the games and controllers in exchange for $15 store credit. A far far cry from two packs of gum and sales tax.
Now came the dilemma that remained unfinished: What do you buy with $15 from a pawn shop? Golf clubs? no, already have a set. Playstation games? Have a glass of irony, most of the games were outdated sports titles. TV, DVD Player? already have both, but the parents could use a DVD player. Well, a new one at least.
I'm pretty sure I spent next to an hour trying to find something useful to buy with $15, but looking through the collection of CDs that were more like a "Hits of 1995" selection the hopes were quite dashed. Then came the front window stuff, complete with a few sirens, black lights, and other stuff that was ludicrously overpaid at Spencer's at one time.
and that's where I saw it.
An LED signboard.
and that's when my hopes were again dashed, when the guy said "I don't think that's for sale, buddy." After perusing for a good 15 mins after they closed, they gave me a receipt and I left. and coughed from the fifth-hand smoke inhalation and weird hash smell.
CONTINUED ABOVE
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