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Jingle All the Way
November 12, 2008I feel a little disgusted admitting this, but I believe that I have started turning into Howard Langston.
I've been looking to buy my less than 2-year old son a remote-control car for Christmas. It's not like I've waited to buy it at the last minute, so I should be able to buy it with ease.
The toy is the Tonka Bounce Back Racer.
It shouldn't be that hard to get a hold of, right? Well I was wrong.
I've known for a little while that I wanted to get Lennox, my son's name, this remote-controlled car. He has one, its a construction dumpster, but it is attached on a cord. Kind of lame, but he's only 19-months old, so he doesn't really care.
So the journey began.
I saw the commercial and figured why not. The toy isn't all that expensive to begin with, about $25.
But everyone was sold out. I called ToysRus and Target and checked every web site. Heck I even checked KBtoys, for those that remember the store used to be in our mall, located somewhere between the Foot Locker or Hollister stores.
Amazon's cheapest price was $57, everywhere else it was out of stock. As of yesterday, I didn't know inflation had hit us that hard.
So I figured surely Wal-Mart would have it. I checked their site, but it didn't allow me to see if the racer was in stock at a particular location. Doesn't Wal-Mart have an advanced enough inventory system to be able to tell customers if something is in stock?
I almost gave up, one because it was a little frustrating to learn that buying a Christmas toy could be hell and two because it was time to go to lunch.
Just on a whim I called Wal-Mart. They had it, thank God, so I dashed from work to Wal-Mart to get the racer.
I was channeling my inner-Arnold Schwarzenegger at the moment, ready and willing to take out any old Granny or Sinbad that got in my way. They had two in stock and during the entire journey I was on my phone talking to my wife admitting to her the "Jingle All the Way" reference.
My son has to have the Bounce Back Racer.
Nobody wants a Booster.
Posted by Clayton Hein at 11:36 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Once again the Nintendo Wii is one of the hottest gifts this Christmas, they're selling out fast. I found mine at http://www.efoundit.com/
