Posted: 11/23/2011 8:44:09 AM EDT
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without saying "if I have to explain this, you wouldn't understand." Try to explain anyhow.
Why do people have to be the first to buy the latest gimmick toy, video game or whatever? Bragging rights, status symbol or what? I mean, standing in line outside a store in all kinds of weather, just to be number 1. I don't get the mindset of folks. |
Slept outside of the Service Merchandise in my car all night, or more or less stayed up most of it, waiting for the store to open to get Pac-Man for the Atari 2600. I made dang sure my LED watch with countdown timer and alarm was set right so the alarm would go off every hour, and then went off before the store opened. I got a little chilly in my parachute pants and my zipper adorned jacket wasn't much help. It was ok though, I jammed all night to some gnarly tunes on my underdash mounted tapedeck for sure. 
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Because we are brainwashed since our toddler days to be uber-consumers in this country, and it works on a lot of people. I think that you have nailed the answer. God forbid anybody do anything because it's fun. You must be a blast at parties. I have a great time at the parties I can make it to out of the ones I get invited to. Then again, most of the people I party with don't generally waste their time standing in lines for hours or days to buy toys, and wouldn't view that as "fun". We could make it fun if we were waiting for something important, but for a toy? Eff that stupidity. |
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Yay!
Something new to buy. I'll wait in line to get something that I think will make me happier. And it probably will for a few days cuz I'll be the first to get it. Then it won't anymore because my freinds have it now too and I'm not cool for being the only one with it. Yay! Something else new is coming out. I can be cool again! |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Because we are brainwashed since our toddler days to be uber-consumers in this country, and it works on a lot of people. I think that you have nailed the answer. God forbid anybody do anything because it's fun. You must be a blast at parties. I have a great time at the parties I can make it to out of the ones I get invited to. Then again, most of the people I party with don't generally waste their time standing in lines for hours or days to buy toys, and wouldn't view that as "fun". We could make it fun if we were waiting for something important, but for a toy? Eff that stupidity. Yeah, people different than you are stupid.  |
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Quoted: Sometimes people do things for fun. Imagine that. Standing in line with a bunch of people that are there to get the same thing and the flurry of excitement can be entertaining. Day after Thanksgiving, 25 degrees, wind howling out of the north, stand in line for 3 hours (or longer) out in the weather. Yessir, that's SO fun.  |
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Slept outside of the Service Merchandise in my car all night, or more or less stayed up most of it, waiting for the store to open to get Pac-Man for the Atari 2600. I made dang sure my LED watch with countdown timer and alarm was set right so the alarm would go off every hour, and then went off before the store opened. I got a little chilly in my parachute pants and my zipper adorned jacket wasn't much help. It was ok though, I jammed all night to some gnarly tunes on my underdash mounted tapedeck for sure. Did you have the quick release mount? 
Because the hard mount tape deck guys were posers with no equalizers. |
| To me, the companies want to create a hype that will put people into a frenzy. Think sharks and chumming. Part of the way this is done is by making people think that if they do not buy it now, that they will all be gone. Be first to have one, or do not get one at all. |