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So, I was visiting my brother, B, and my probably-will-be-Sister-In-Law, H, a few weeks back. And on that occasion, we went to the local GameStop so I could burn off some of my birthday money and B could buy Super Mario Galaxy (which is awesome, btw).
So we're at the store, browsing through games for my DS with B trying to talk me into buying "Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland" (I'm a huge Zelda nerd, so I was tempted, but ended up not buying it... yet), and we're listening to the little kids playing the new games for the 360 and PS3 on the displayed machines, when She enters the store.
She is a very big woman (I'm overweight and even I thought it was gross), flanked by two little boys at around 6 or 7 years. The kids, being kids, of course make a beeline straight towards the game displays. No suckiness in that, that's just normal. And the kids were pure angels, especially compaired to their troll of a mother.
The woman starts screaming at the other kids to get away from the displays because her boys want to play. That alone earns her quite a few "WTF?" looks from the rest of the store (it's not very big. The woman was taking up an entire aisle, though), but her boys tell the other kids that it's okay, they can wait, and they even end up playing with some of the other kids while their mother is looking at the games. I wish more kids were like them.
So, when the boys finally get around to playing, their mother looks over and lets out an ear-piercing shriek when she sees what the boys are playing. The name escapes me at the moment, but it wasn't all that violent. She then tells the kids to get away from the, and I quote: "devil-spawning contraption". All the kids freeze and look at her, she gets even more "WTF lady?" looks from the rest of us, and then she starts going into a rant about how games make people violent and commit murder, and she saw it in the news from the US and how dare the store sell these kind of things, blah blah blah.
At some point, B has had enough of her ranting, and calmly tells her:
"Ma'am, I'm a seasoned gamer. I've been playing games for years. My kid sister is a gamer as well. Most of our circle of friends are gamers. Trust me, it's not games that make people violent. It's people like you."
She was shocked silent. It was so awesome.
While I was cracking up with most of the rest of the store, she stomped out, leaving her kids behind. The clerks were cool, though, and told the kids they could stay and play until their mother finally remembered where she had left them.
And to thank my brother for being so awesome, I bought his Christmas gift (Super Paper Mario) while he and H were outside of the store for a second. Probably one of the best use of my money I've had this year
So we're at the store, browsing through games for my DS with B trying to talk me into buying "Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland" (I'm a huge Zelda nerd, so I was tempted, but ended up not buying it... yet), and we're listening to the little kids playing the new games for the 360 and PS3 on the displayed machines, when She enters the store.
She is a very big woman (I'm overweight and even I thought it was gross), flanked by two little boys at around 6 or 7 years. The kids, being kids, of course make a beeline straight towards the game displays. No suckiness in that, that's just normal. And the kids were pure angels, especially compaired to their troll of a mother.
The woman starts screaming at the other kids to get away from the displays because her boys want to play. That alone earns her quite a few "WTF?" looks from the rest of the store (it's not very big. The woman was taking up an entire aisle, though), but her boys tell the other kids that it's okay, they can wait, and they even end up playing with some of the other kids while their mother is looking at the games. I wish more kids were like them.
So, when the boys finally get around to playing, their mother looks over and lets out an ear-piercing shriek when she sees what the boys are playing. The name escapes me at the moment, but it wasn't all that violent. She then tells the kids to get away from the, and I quote: "devil-spawning contraption". All the kids freeze and look at her, she gets even more "WTF lady?" looks from the rest of us, and then she starts going into a rant about how games make people violent and commit murder, and she saw it in the news from the US and how dare the store sell these kind of things, blah blah blah.
At some point, B has had enough of her ranting, and calmly tells her:
"Ma'am, I'm a seasoned gamer. I've been playing games for years. My kid sister is a gamer as well. Most of our circle of friends are gamers. Trust me, it's not games that make people violent. It's people like you."
She was shocked silent. It was so awesome.
While I was cracking up with most of the rest of the store, she stomped out, leaving her kids behind. The clerks were cool, though, and told the kids they could stay and play until their mother finally remembered where she had left them.
And to thank my brother for being so awesome, I bought his Christmas gift (Super Paper Mario) while he and H were outside of the store for a second. Probably one of the best use of my money I've had this year
Because none of our customers have the balls, and I don't want to get fired. (crazy devil woman goes into any Gamestop at least once a week.)
If I really want the full effect, as I'm blowing things away in Doom, I'll crank up Weird Al's "Trigger Happy" mainly for the line ... 'there's no feeling any greater, than to shoot first, and ask questions later...' 
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