Wow! Really? You're Waiting in Line for What?

Nerds and virgins made the news yesterday as people with nothing better to do began to form lines to get their hands on the new Sony Playstation 3 game system which comes out tomorrow. I think we're all in agreement here that these people are just about the lamest of the lame! It's a video game system, people! Are you really that bored with every game on the PS 2 that you need to declare to the town that you're a looser and have nothing else to do with your life than play video games and wait to play more video games? How much better than the PS 2 can it possibly be!? I'm still trying to beat Toy Story 2 on the original Playstation. And at $599.00, people should be boycotting the PS 3 not encouraging Sony by sleeping on cold pavement for the honor to shell over six hundred bucks! Everybody got all ant-sy about the Playstation 2, and look...every kid in America eventually got theirs!

Camping out in line is fun but I think they're pushing it here with this video game system. If people start marathon lines for every highly anticipated product that comes out, then the whole sleeping in front of the store thing becomes normal and not fun anymore. The experience of camping out in line for something should be reserved for these four occasions:

Concert Tickets With a concert, someone famous that you like (and others) is coming to town for one, maybe two nights. There is a set number of seats available, and once the tickets are gone...they are gone! Concerts are unique, one of a kind experiences and if you really dig Aerosmith, Snoop Dogg or The Wiggles then camping out might be the only way to get your hands on some tickets. (In my case it was The Spice Girls, 1998, Nissan Pavilion. Show sold out in like 20-some minutes! We were near the front!)

A Kick-Ass Sale Sometimes (like Black Friday) somebody like Wal Mart will advertise that they've got 50 laptop computers for $200, or flat screen TV's for a couple hundred. Why should your neighbors get all the good deals while you're fast asleep. There's nothing wrong with getting down to the shopping mall early and staking your claim on some good prices! (By the way, $600 bucks for a video game is NOT a good price - I don't care how good the graphics are!)

Transplants I don't think they handle them this way, but if you had to spend the night infront of the hospital to get a relatives name on a Transplant list, then that would be ok! I think you just make a phone call or write a letter, but if they chose to go the "camping out for a kidney" route I wouldn't make fun of you for waiting in line.

Star Wars Let's face it, Star Wars gets in people's blood. It's part of who they are. They practically invented camping out for something stupid. Sure, the movies are the same 24 hours later when you can waltz right into the theatre to see it, but the Star Wars clan does it with style! They dress up, they play games, they build little sim-communities on the sidewalk in front of the theatre, heck...they even get movies made about THEM!

So leave the camping out to metal heads, hippies, and 27-year old guys in Stormtrooper outfits. The Playstation 3 will still be there for you in a couple of weeks, in the meantime why don't you go play with your Tickle Me Elmo Extreeme that you paid $400 bucks for on e-bay.