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Post all your stories here. I'll post mine in a second.


Okay, starting yesterday I was going to get money from the bank. My mom knew that our bank was closed so we were going to the only other one that was close to us. When we got there it was closed. Now we had to rely on cold hard cash at home. Anyways....

I woke up at 5AM this morning. Darth woke up at about 5:35. We got out of the house at 5:55, and arrived at Target at 6:05. We saw no one by the door and then I saw a group of people outside the store. We went over and we knew that there weren't more than 24 people (our Target had 24 wiis, that's what it said on the internet). It happened that we got 15th. Everyone there was friendly. It was freezing! About 30 degrees F to be exact. Someone who was waiting with the group came out of the store and said they were coming out with hot chocolate and tickets at 7. At about 7:05 we saw the people with red shirts come out of the store. They came with cappucino, tickets, and accesory/game reserve sheets. I didn't take a cappucino, darth did. They went around gave out tickets and reserve sheets. People were filling the reserve sheets out, but we didn't need anything so we didn't. Then we went to the car, turned on the radio and heat. I even took off my shoes and put my feet by the heater and my hands. Also I dropped my water bottle out of the car and it rolled under somenoe elses car , I never saw it again . Then at about 7:53, Darth and I got out of the car, and the rest folllowed us. In a matter of minutes the employees came out again and explained what we'll be doing. We are going in numerical order (from which you got tickets) single file through the store to the video game section, one at a time to get a wii and then you wait until the security escorts you to the parking lot. So the first half finished and was escorted and Darth and I got our wii and was first in line for waiting to be escorted to the parking lot. At about 8:40 we were finally on our way to the parking lot, everyone made it safely to their cars and drove home. I carried the wii box in, then we opened it, took out all of the stuff and started assembling everything. From like when we got it set up and now we've been playing Wii Sports non stop. It's an awesome game! Boxing is the best; then tennis, baseball, and bowling; and golf is okay.
 
(posted from nsider)

So, my alarm goes off at 5:15, just as planned. I was really excited for Wii...but fell asleep again because I was tired. Well, around 5:35, my brother came into my room and re-woke me up. I did my stuff (got dressed; grabbed my wallet, phone, water, keys; ate 2 mini muffins - I really wasn't that hungry; brushed my teeth; etc). So, at about 5:50, I began driving to Target (which was our first stop, if too many people, we'd head to WalMart, then BestBuy) with my brother in the passenger seat. We got to Target at about 2 minutes prior to 6:00. We didn't see anyone at the front door, but noticed a small group about 30 feet to the side, along the front wall fo Target. There was a sign there, saying "start of line for Wii". There was one group of 4 people that ahd actually camped out in a tent. The next guy got there just before 2:00 in the morning. All of the people were really cool in line...ranging from 2 college guys who's friend was in the back of the car (passed out from drinking), to a mom and dad buying Wii for their sons for Hanukkah, to another 2 guys who were majoring in gave development at a college about half an hour away...to an old guy (balding, grey/white hair) who was one of the 4 people who stayed in the tent. I had lots of fun talking to everyone. At about 6:50, one guy went to the front door to make sure there were employees there for us, and there were, of course, and they told him they'd be otu in 10 minutes with some hot chocolate as well as the tickets. So, about 7:03-ish, 3 employees came out, and first handed out the French Vanilla Capuccino. Mmmhmmmm...was that good, and nice and hottttt! My little brother doesn't liek chocolate, so he didn't take one...

Well, the people right behind my brother and I were getting very nervous, because, depending on how many people in front of us weren't getting Wii (there were lots of groups, or partners at least, some in which all people would get a Wii, others, like myself, where only one was being purchased). It ended up that everyone in line by 7:00 got a Wii (there were 24, and 22 tickets were handed out). Within about 3 minutes, the last 2 tickets were taken. I got #15 out of 24! Also, they gave us a couple minutes to fill out a sheet if we wanted games/controllers/etc. I didn't have enough cash on me to do so, so I brought the sheet home, and scanned it (see below).

So, to warm my little brother up a bit, we went to the car, and I turned on the heat and radio for a while (by the time the employees had handed out the tickets, it was about 7:20). We sat in there until about 7:55, when we headed back to the line, which we were instructed to do. About half the people were also in their cars, and followed us.

So, aat 8:01, 2 security guards escorted us, in single file, to the electronics deptartment of the store. When we arrived in the line, we saw their Wii display, and above was a TV wit hminute-long ads for PS3 and Wii games. I just talked to the two game developer guys for the 25 minutes we had to wait inside (they were checking out two at a time...so it took a while). Once I got my Wii, I WAS SO EXCITED! We had to wait for the last 9 people getting Wiis, since the guards escorted us to the parking lot for our own safety. By about 8:30 we were heading out, and I could not wait to get home (I only did 5 over the whole way...believe it or not).

Got home, opened it up, set it up, and started playing. Me and my bro have been alternating plays all day long. It was an awesome experience, and I got my Wii!!!


Note - PKMNMasterSamus (story on pg. 13 of this thread) and I have the same story, told from different viewpoints...seeing as how I'm the one that drove him there.


Target order sheet thingy that I scanned:
targetwiiscan.jpg
 
Went there, picked up my preorder, stared at TP the whole way back, got it taken away, wuz sad for a few min, played wii. Thats all


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