Today was a doozy

Deadbeat Dadurday is a doozy every week, and I was workin' the Big Daddy Shift (12-9:30), so I was not expecting it to be a great day at work. But wow. Wow.

I had multiple parents come up to me and complain that Pokémon is a huge scam that's ripping them off and ruining their lives. The first mom, I was like, "I think it's taking over her life, not yours."

"NO. NO. IT IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE."

Why, because your daughter sits quietly and plays Pokémon? Ok, player. God forbid these people ever find out about Skylanders, which is just like Pokémon except you have to buy all the monsters in real life instead of catching them in the game.

Not that I consider children's toys a "scam," mind you. Maybe don't have kids next time!

Speaking of Skylanders, I had a guy last week who bought Skylanders Swap Force in a really elaborate manner and then came back today to accuse me of stealing his pre-order deposit. Basically, he'd bought a new system since he pre-ordered the game, and he wanted the game for his new system, but hadn't changed his pre-order. The pre-order bonus for Swap Force was a bonus figurine that only rings up as the freebie price when rung out in the same transaction as a pre-order pickup. So in order to get him his bonus character, I had to have him pick up and pay for his pre-order normally, then do a second transaction to exchange the wrong version of the game for the right version. This kind of thing happens at my job a lot, so I knew what to do and explained what I did as I did it. Of course, Doofus lost the first receipt, and claimed he didn't get his deposit back, so I had to dig through the computer to find it and show it to him.

Do these people ever think to check their bank statements to see that they weren't charged the full amount? It's not my fault you didn't call and update your pre-order and I had to do register gymnastics to get you all the bonuses you're entitled to. Would you rather have not gotten your free character, sir?

Finally, we had the mayor of Team High Maintenance come in right at close to do some shopping for discounted PS3 games. We have about a million different sales running right now, none of which overlap, so he ended up spending forever in the store doing about four purchase-and-return transactions to try to get the best "deal,"  and whining about it if his $5 used PS3 games didn't look brand new.

The last exchange worked out that he owed me $0.02.

I made him pay it.

IN CONCLUSION: Fuck this shit.