Girls can be gamers too!

[karma_gypsy]

Yesterday afternoon, I was watching the floor. The pawn room was busy, but the floor wasn't. A guy comes in and I ask him if needed any help. He asked if "the shorter guy" was in and made the motion of how short the guy was.

I said he was, but he was working in the pawn room and couldn't be able to help (as he was busy and helping another customer). I asked the guy what he needed.

"Oh, no, that's o.k., I'll just wait for him."

"Well, he's busy with other people. What can I get for ya?"

"It's a question about video games," he said it in a way like I didn't even know what a video game was.

"It's gonna be a while, he's really busy right now. What's your question?"

The guy was rude from the beginning, like he was having a bad day and was taking it out on me. "Well, I was just looking for a memory card type thing for the N64 . . ." he kinda mumbles. "You know, the thing that goes in the system."

"An expansion pack?"

"Yeah, I think that's it . . ."

I proceed to go over to the gaming counter, pull out an old, broken N64 system, point to the expansion pack bay. "Like the thing that goes in there? That allows you to play the bigger games like Ocarina of Time and all that?"

"Yeah, that's it. Do you have any?"

We didn't. I tell him that they're fairly rare and hardly come in, even without the system. If a system does come in with the expansion pack a part of it, the system usually sells for more (about $40 as opposed to $20). So, he asks about a controller, which we do have, brand new for around 14 bucks. He says he can get one cheaper at GoodWill. Fine by me.

He goes on, goes through the VHS tapes (the dollar bin - tapes in there are usually less than 60 minutes long). My video gaming co-worker is still busy in the pawn room.

So, the guy finds two tapes and brings them up to the counter. I ring him up and the grand total comes to $2.15 (including tax). The guy asks if there is any guarantee on the tapes (these are used tapes, by the way).

"Well, no, they're really being sold as-is. There's a big sign out by the tapes saying so. I guess, if they didn't work, bring them back with your receipt and you can exchange with another DOLLAR movie." (I know management would never do that but I highly doubt he'd come back in to return his tape.

So, in hearing this response, he tears the tapes from the bag I had just put them in, throws the bag aside (all pissy and dramatic like) and (tries to) checks the ribbon inside the cassettes.

My co-worker comes out from the pawn room. The guy immediately turns to him and asks where he could find an expansion pack. Co-worker replies "eBay. Only place you'll probably find it." Then he goes on about how rare they are and all that. He said you could probably find the packs for about $30-40. Guy didn't like the sound of that and made a huffy little noise (he had bagged up his own movies by then).

That's when I piped up and said,
"Yeah, that's how much I paid for MINE a couple of years ago." With that, I left to do some other work.

I told my husband this story, and he kinda laughed - to which he also replied, "I bet there wasn't a ring on his finger."

[Anakah]

Ha. Those jerks. I'm a girl gamer too. I never assume just because someone is male or female that they don't know what they're talking about.

[CancelMyService]

My female co workers at the cable company get a lot of (usually older) men who demand to speak to a male employee since girls can't possibly know about all that fancy e-lectronical stuff.

Funny story about that, my trainer told me about a new guy who would put the caller on hold and ask her how to solve a problem. When the guy's problem was solved, he said "I'm glad I got a guy, a woman wouldn't have known how to fix this"

[Shironu-Akaineko]

If you knew how many guys I shut up with my Final Fantasy knowledge...

My ex thought because I didn't PLAY shooters, I didn't give two sh!ts about Metal Gear or Resident Evil.

And I got the expansion pack for my N64 back when it was commonplace. Ocarina of time was the first Zelda I've beaten.

I bet I can pwn this guy at Duck hunt.

[Reyneth]

I'm sure I've mentioned this here before, but another instance of "you don't have a Y chromosome so you can't help me" syndrome....

At the camera store I worked at, a customer comes in and I'm the only one available. He asks me questions about X camera by Y brand. I answer everything with no problem and showed him various features etc.

Apparently he didn't like what I told him because he then went to my male coworker and asked him the exact same questions. J looked at me, looked at the guy, and said something along the lines of "You just asked her these questions, and she answered them. She has the camera two models above X from Y brand, she knows what she is talking about with this camera. I've been here less than a month."

Of course, sexist customer didn't like that and was all huffy, ignored me and tried to get the eye of my manager (also male) to ask him the same questions. Manager ignored him for the rest of the time he was in the store. It was all we could do to not laugh in front of other customers when he finally gave up and walked away.

So if you don't respect the employee, you might regret it!

[phoenix_rising]

Man, I remember my expansion pack. Little bugger. We only needed it for Majora's Mask, you know, so it basically sat around the rest of the time. Ocarina of Time was so much better anyway.

[zzapp the witch]

I like my Hogan's Alley, you can keep your duck hunt.

Hehehe, I love it when guys see my myspace and tell me that there's no way I can be attrative AND play online RPGs..... Idiots been in their basements too long.

[powerboy]

Whenever I go into the little game shops in the mall, and I see a woman working there. I never think twice about it. Oh so what, if the employee is a member of the opposite sex. Most of the women can do things better then men, can. And vice-versa.

[Bluenomi]

I have a similar problem all the time. They ring up asking for the male member of staff convinced I can't help them because I'm female. Little do they realise I taught the guy all he knows. I do laugh when he tells them they have to speak to me cause he can't help them.

[GingerBiscuit]

I get that a lot. I am young, and look younger, and female, therefore I MUST have only been hired to be decorative and stack shelves. It's not in gaming but health foods/herbal products, but the attitude is still there. I love when they ask me a question, I answer, they don't believe me and ask someone else, who invariably asks me again as, as my manager put it- 'she's our expert'.
It's great when they've asked the manager and he ccomes and finds me. The expressions on their little faces...

[Sliceanddice]

I trust woman way more than men in game shops....
How else was i goign to know how awesome Alice looked when she died in Alice...
Omg cutting the wrists and stabbing herself.... almost made me want to just killing her to see it over and over and over again ...

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Well, some of these guys (the guy in your story, for instance) are playing their games all the time becaue they don't have girls in their lives.

There's a really, really good reason for that.

[mariamousie1]

How annoying. I'm a girl gamer. I think the most annoying part is when the guy comes out and the customer instantly asks the question that's already been answered for him.

[MadMike]

I haven't known that many girl gamers, but it's really cool when I do find one.

I think I kind of freaked this one out awhile back when I was playing Half-Life 2 Deathmatch awhile back. I was playing on the same server for awhile, and consequently, the same group of people. We were all talking, and I referred to the one female player in the group as "she." I guess while I remembered her from playing there before, she didn't remember me, and was wondering how I knew she was a "she."

BTW, she could kick ass just as well as the guys on the server.

[draggar]

Girl gamer geeks are sexy.