Stupid Kids...

So, I'm sitting in the store, minding my own business, when a kid about 10 walks in. He walks to the counter and asks to trade his games in. So, I proceed in trading the kids games in, like he asks. After I tell him the value of his games, he looks at me stunned, and answers: "But, but, I have reciepts!" "And?" I reply, returning his blank look. "Well, I wanted to return those games, and trade in those other ones!" (sigh, here we go again...) "Well, we have a 30 day defect guarantee on games if they are defective, and we have a 'try before you buy' policy, so you don't get stuck with games you don't want."
The kid looks at me still blank in the face, and stutters a reply: "Well, these two games don't work on my PS2! I put them in and it goes, (he then proceeded in making a loud gutteral sound), and then it says, disc read error." Then he sat there with a satisfied look on his face. Well, not to be distrustful, I looked back at him in the face and said, "Well then, lets try them on OUR system!" The kid looked flabbergasted, and replied, "No, no, it's ok, last time I tried them they worked on your system, but it must be a problem with my PS2!" Well, lo and behold, the games worked perfectly. So I asked him about his PS2, and he said it was a phat PS2, that Sony stopped making new almost 3 years ago, but this kid insisted that he had bought it brand-new from walmart only last week. Sighing at his logic, I proceeded in telling him the truth: "We can't return your games that you say don't work, but we can trade them in, like you asked me to do in the first place."
The kid finally looked resigned that he wasn't getting a return, and went to look around the store for a while. Much to mine and Andi's dismay, he didn't leave, but just sat staring at the PS2 section. After a while he yelled from the corner of the store, over the customers I was helping "Do you think that I could get a game that's $14.99 for $12?" Utterly bewildered, I exhanged glances with Andi, breathed deeply, and responded: "Um...no."
I gotta say, the kid looked dejected, but hey, with math skills like that, who needs school? He continued to look around the store for a little while longer, came up, bought a $12 game with his 12 dollars, then asked if he'd have enough for a drink. Andi then responded "No." He turned around, left with his game, opened the door, got his skateboard, then tried to mount it, but the skateboard didn't want to be mounted, and it flipped out from under his feet, leaving him to smash his face into the concrete welcome mat oustide the door, right where Me and Andi were looking.
Moral of the story: don't be that kid. ever.

Brady