Posted Jan 28, 06:24 AM in Games by Scott Conley

A fact of my marriage is that we can’t walk into a Target without spending a minimum of a hundred bucks. Rest assured, it’s not something we’re proud of, or are particularly dissatisfied about. It’s simply the way it is. We walk in. We walk out. Our Visa has 100 fewer dollars of available credit on it.

We thought it might be different today.

• A bottle of calcium tablets.
• A bottle of bleach.
• One package of gel shoe inserts.
• Four boxes of mac & cheese.
• A Rubbermaid bin.

Wow! We toured the entire Target and only had these things to show for it, maybe thirty bucks. We even hit the DVDs, video games and toys sections of the place. No more.

Oh wait.

On second thought, we’ll take one of those five Xbox 360 systems. Yes, please. One of the white ones in the case there. Oh, a game? Why not.

w00t! I’m finally hooked up with the 360, and I’m pleased to report that thus far, Call of Duty 2 is every bit the 90 it’s sporting on metacritic. (I’ll probably put my own thoughts on the game up, later). Isn’t it strange how these things pop up? Not four hours earlier, I was in a GameStop listening to the clerk explain (yet again) to a customer that they “didn’t know when,” nor “how many” 360s they would get, and that, even then it would be “first come-first serve.” The frustrated customer asked if Target was carrying them, too, to which the clerk replied that they were, but were out; and if they had gotten some in, they would be gone.

As you can see, I’ve added my Gamer Card data to the site. Pretty n3rdz0r, but still entertaining.

Oh yeah. I’m also very happy to report that our streak of $100+ per visit-to-Target remains solidly intact.

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