The Day the Earth Still

This morning about 8 o'clock, #3 son came upstairs from his room still half asleep and mumbled something no one could understand. I said you are going to have to speak more clearly, son, so I can understand you. He repeated himself and I was able to understand "Do you know what time Best Buy opens?" For some reason he assumes I get up every morning and the first thing I do is check the Best Buy opening time for that particular day. With my mind racing full of a whole lot of ideas for a smart-ass comeback, I cut him some slack, and said I figured they would probably be open by ten o'clock. The only reason I'd be concerned about a Best Buy opening time was if a new ZZ Top cd was coming out and then I'd probably buy it at Wal-Mart. I asked him what he needed, and he looked at me like I was crazy and said "Oblivion" comes out today. I confess I already knew all about this video game but I just LOVE messin' with the kids. I'm thinking of saying "What's an "Oblivion?", but I knew he wouldn't fall for it because that's ALL he's been talking about for months. I can tell that 10 o'clock is toooo far away for him to deal with right now, and I was right. I'm sure I saw his eyes glass over and foam coming from his mouth at the thought of waiting nearly 2 hours for this life-altering event. I swear I heard him mumbling to himself so I looked around to see if the Thrift Center lady had come to visit and stalk ME. I leave for awhile and when I come back he starts telling me about the characters in this game have 24 hour lives, you can get arrested and yada yada yada. The only video game that's ever impressed me is "Pong" and that's because it was the FIRST video game. I must admit however that this X-Box 360 thing in high-definition is definitely impressive. Which brings up another question. WHY does Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, need to charge 70 DOLLARS for a video game?? and if he is going to make a system called the 360, why don't he re-release "Pong" so it would TRULY be a 360?? Just wondering. Anyhow, my 18 year-old son managed to make it thru those 120 minutes that the earth stood still waiting for the store to open. We walk in there and you should have saw the look on his face when they said they weren't in yet. I 'bout busted up laughing but didn't because he IS a really good son but about then another guy came up and said the truck was backing in right now. I hadn't seen that much EXCITMENT on his face since he found the Pamela Anderson/Tommy Lee video on the internet. Anyhow, he purchased his greatly over-priced game, we went home, and he retreated to his basement bedroom where there is now a steady stream of gaming friends coming and going and being "Wowed" about this earth-shaking event. Me? I'm just left with my computer watching Pamela and wishing I was Tommy.