Funny thing while at Fry's

So I got a nice gift card to Fry's for Christmas ... well ok it was just 20 bucks, but hey free money is free money.

I upgraded my main account to Wrath on the first day, but put off the other four accounts to save up for Christmas. With gift card in hand, I drove an amazing 1.5 miles from my house to the Manhattan Beach store.

I found World of Warcraft in the games section, but no Wrath of the Lich King. After walking around for 10 minutes, I grabbed an employee and asked where the game was.

"Follow me," he said.

We go down two aisles and he grabbed one of those step ladders. We then go to the Macintosh aisles and he stops in the antivirus section (macs need av??). He steps up and blindly reaches into a big cardboard box on top of the shelves. The top of the box is several feet above his head and I can tell he's straining to feel for something.

After 15 seconds, he finds Wrath and hands it to me. He's winded from trying to maintain his balance and stretching. "Is that the one?"

I nodded and told him I needed three more. His face was priceless, a mix of resignation and WTF. Fishing around for about a minute, he grabbed the other copies and handed them down one by one.

The guy looks like he's about to have a heart attack. He asks, "Are these on sale or something?"

"No, I just play 5 characters at the same time."

He's about to step down from the ladder when two college kids in USC shirts walk by and look at my Wrath copies.

"Oh we were looking for these too. Can we get two each?"

lol - thanks for sharing, that made me laugh.

Fry's is definitely a weird place. I bought 2 copies of wotlk and they made me do two separate transactions because apparently there was a limit of one per customer - although they let me buy two of them. They had to get a key dude to approve it because apparently at Fry's the system doesn't like it if you run a credit card through twice in some period of time. It's a truly WTF type of place. It's like in the process of retail evolution, Fry's was branched off in the primordial stage.

The only thing missing is the overbearing middle aged female manager smacking the guy on the butt and telling him "Good job sweet cheeks!".

(cue 40 year old virgin)

Edited for clarity.