Well we obviously didn't play Video games...

[TheDarkness]

At a video store I worked at, we had lost our computer system for a weekend as they did upgrades and the like. It was horrible, but the worst part was that we couldn't rent any video games, due to restrictions that the corporate office imposed. SO we placed up signs, at least 4 on the entrance doors, and one in each bay of the game section. Everyone pretty much accepted the no games thing and left it alone. But then, of course, the Fool had to come up.

Me: Hello, are you ready?
Fool: Yeah I want this. ( and he hands me a cover box for a game. now in our store there are boxes behind covers to bring up. that's what you bring up, so that was his first mistake )
Me: Oh, I'm sorry sir, but we can't rent any games today. Our computers are down.
Fool: But I want this game! ( Yelling as he's become instantly irate - a sign that he'd read the signs and came up simply to argue )
Me: I'm sorry, we put up signs. We can't rent any games today.
Fool: No! You're going to rent me this game! I don't care what your sign says!!
Me: Again, I can't rent this game. If I do, I'll be in trouble. ( Sad but true )
Fool: I don't care! I'll give you my credit card number and I'm taking this game!!!!
Me: I'm sorry sir, I can't rent games to you today. I'll hold it until the computers are working again if you wish.
Fool: NO! I'm here ALL the time! ( Of course, they ALL are "Here all the time" ) I'll never shop here again!!!
Me: I'm sorry to hear that.
( So he starts to leave, then turns arround )
Fool: SO what did you do before you had computers?!
Me: ...


... Yeah. Pretty much.

[CaptainJaneway]

lol

I had one of thse type of customers except this had to do with the escalator where i work.

They had turned off the side where the carts go down because some milk had spilled when a cart overturned. So it caused a major back up and the elevator is slow as shit.

so i had a lot of irate customers and one guy in particular was yelling at me what do you do if there is a fire?

Well what i wanted to say would have gotten me canned.. i just looked at him with a wtf expression.

If there is a fucking fire my ass would be out the fire exit and in the parking lot. Not trying to get my effing cart of groceries down an broken escalator or a slow elevator. besides one does not use elevators in a fire. lol

Geeze i think common sense has vanished...

[smileyeagle1021]

Ah, the what did you do before computers question.

Of course my smart ass answer is "I'm sorry, but computers have been around longer than I have... so I've never had to worry about it... why do you ask"

my serious answer- "well, if you'd like I can do it like we did before computers... I will require a full payment for your room, upfront, in cash, plus a $100 deposit. I will need to photocopy your drivers license. Oh, I'll also have to fill out this registration card by hand, this will take a few minutes. You will be issued only one key, not two, as it is that the only reason we can issue multiple keys is because of the computer. Oh, and you don't have any guarantee on getting all that deposit back when you check out, even if there is no damage to the room, after all, tax is a very complicated thing to figure out, I may have done my figures wrong, in which case the extra would come out of your deposit. I can gladly do that... or you can wait for the computer to work... whichever your prefer".

[South Texan]

Fool: NO! I'm here ALL the time!

"In that case, sir, might would you care to get a life? People usually find them just outside our door."

[jiarby]

Fool: SO what did you do before you had computers?!

Well... We DIDN'T play video games did we!?

[bloodrose]

Well... We DIDN'T play video games did we!?

Awww...beat me to it!

Yeah, seriously, dude. You wouldn't be renting a video game if we didn't have computers.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Well... We DIDN'T play video games did we!?

No but we had board games.

Just had to get that one in.

[SG15Z]

Well... We DIDN'T play video games did we!?

Damn, you beat me to it...

Also we didn't have video rental stores period.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Damn, you beat me to it...

Also we didn't have video rental stores period.

And that was just after one glass of wine . . .

[JustaCashier]

Fool: NO! I'm here ALL the time! ( Of course, they ALL are "Here all the time" ) I'll never shop here again!!!

(Of course they ALL say "I'll never shop here again!!!")

MIke

[Racket_Man]

Well... We DIDN'T play video games did we!?

well lets seeeee...... we played outside in the "fresh" air with sticks and dirt and old cups and water and toy trucks and shovels and ....


HEY that sounds like fun. reminds me I have to tend my flower garden

[Imogene]

We rented tapes and had movie nights. Video games didn't figure into it until after computers came out anyway. Board games or card games, if it wasn't VHS movies.

[SG15Z]

well lets seeeee...... we played outside in the "fresh" air with sticks and dirt and old cups and water and toy trucks and shovels and ....


HEY that sounds like fun. reminds me I have to tend my flower garden

That does sound like fun! I remember when I was a kid (back in the early 90s) my parents would lock me out of the house and I didn't go back inside till it was dark. Now I'm lucky to see kids outside at all. They don't know what they're missing.

[Racket_Man]

and when we did play inside we had board games made of real cardboard and plastic and the peices did not move themselves or have coool graphics and fun sounds and light shows and blood and gore and veins in my teeth eating dead burnt bodies. I said KILL KIIIILLLLLLL KIIIILLLLLL and I would start jumping up and down yelling KILL KILL KILLL (cookies for reference)

sorry we played unPC games like Cowboys and Indians, dodge ball, tag, Simon says, hopscotch, 4 square, freeze tag, red rover. we had imaginary adventures using our brains. like ashpit in my backyard was the Fort and the alley was the grassy plaines. that old closed theater was Draculas mansion, the alley was for homeade go-cart racing (yes my Dad and I build one and so did others not some Bill Cosby routine), and yes we did the bike jumping ramp thing back in my day too (before real skateboards came along)


Heck I remember D&D done with a huge sheet of graph paper, some little ceramic or pewter peices a bunch of dice and a night of fun adventuring

when I was a there was not really anything on TV for kids (esp during the weekends except Sat morning) anyway and outside was THE PLACE to be esp during the summer.

[Tuxian]

and when we did play inside we had board games made of real cardboard and plastic and the peices did not move themselves or have coool graphics and fun sounds and light shows and blood and gore and veins in my teeth eating dead burnt bodies. I said KILL KIIIILLLLLLL KIIIILLLLLL and I would start jumping up and down yelling KILL KILL KILLL (cookies for reference)

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Heck I remember D&D done with a huge sheet of graph paper, some little ceramic or pewter peices a bunch of dice and a night of fun adventuring

Alice's Restaurant, gotta love it.

As for the D&D, I recently got my hands on a game that's kind of like D&D in boardgame format, called "Descent: Journeys in the Dark." And it's a LONG game, even for a single dungeon. Some friends and I were playing last night, we played for close to 7 hours and still didn't finish the game yet, had to leave it set up for a finish on another day.