ANYhoo, this one has two registers and it's nearly always packed, but they almost never open more than one register at a time. Everybody talks about it. More than once, I've been in there when there's a line halfway to the back of the store and someone's at the other register, but won't open it. Why? I don't know! But I digress.
I'm pulling things out of my basket and trying to set them wherever they can find purchase, because the checkout counter is exactly like 8" wide and Pippi Longstocking there has all her arts and crafts shit scattered across the whole thing - Scotch tape, some whistle thingy, a snack, a drink - I wanted to "accidentally" knock her crap into the floor, and go, "Think maybe you could do your job at work and your hobby at home?" but... you know - Christmas spirit and shit. So, I get as much as I can get up there and I'm waiting for her to clear some of it off and I'm standing there with toilet paper under one arm and a 2-liter Pepsi in the other, and I look up to give the mile-long line behind me a, "Sorry, not my fault" shrug-and-smile, when I see a box with a picture of Robin, the Boy Wonder, on it.
She gets some of it done and I set the stuff in my arms down and take a closer look: it's a Teen Titans collectible card game! I had no idea! So I pulled one of them out and asked her to price it and she says, "$1.00." I said, "Can I get them all and the box, too?" She looked a little shocked, but said sure. Before she'd checked me out, I had other folks scouring the store, looking in the back stock - the whole nine.
I got three starter packs and the display box. I have no idea what they're worth, how it's played, when it was released, or by whom. But I got them - every, last one of them.
BOOYA!
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