I gaze at the store’s lightly tinted window, my eyes fixed on the price of the computer in big bold red writing $16,350. I scratch my head
I think to myself as I walk inside, through a door tinted a dark shade of blue with the company logo stamped on it. Past the scary looking police officer. The store was much better than outside, the air conditioning gave a whole different feel than the hot summer sun that had me baking outside.
“This is gonna be tough isn’t it. What did I do to deserve this?”
I say softly as I gulp then inch closer and begin asking her about the item in question.
"Excuse me ma'am but is there anyway you can drop the price of the item over there?" I say as I point to the computer. I was met with the quickest
"No."of my life, she didn't even look at me and continued filing her nails...
"A-Are you-" I was cut off as she says "Yes, I'm sure now if you're not going to buy something, leave or I'll have security throw you out." she declares.
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Me not believing the horrible customer service for one second I slammed my hand down on the desk in front of her and demand that she listen to my requests.
"Now I don't know what kind of con thing you're running here but you could at least not cut me off and not threate-" I was cut off again as she yelled for security. "Security! This guy is being a nuisance, escort him out please." The officer must have teleported behind me I thought, no footsteps heard and he grabbed me took us just outside the door and literally threw me out of the store.
"Whoaaaaah!" I yell as I fly over to the sidewalk with my butt in the air.
I pick myself up off the ground and start dusting myself off.
“Well that didn’t work, I guess I’ll need to find something to do with a big payoff, I have no idea what to do though.” I think to myself as I start walking back in the direction of my house.
“Maybe I should get Curry Udon, yeah! That sounds perfect.” I think and agree to myself as I stop to the store to get the food right before heading home.
“Good thing I live right next to the convenience store, Lord knows I’m too lazy for all this walking.”
Finally home I open my door and head straight for the kitchen’s microwave to heat up my noodles for quick eating.
I wait a few seconds and go to my computer chair with my noodles and sigh heavily I sigh again as I turn on my computer and comb through the internet for any leads on something remotely close to the money I need that wasn’t impossible and something I at least had a chance of doing.
I live by myself so other than door-to-door salesmen sometimes coming here I usually just talk to people online from my computer.
A few hours pass as I look through forum after forum and I finally caught something! “Finally! I’ve been looking for something like this, a game jam! Half a year from now apparently and it pays…10 thousand, not really what I was hoping for but it’s a lot as an added bonus I could get publicity from this and maybe, just maybe be able to sell the game and get the other 6 thousand I need. Alright! I have this all figured out, now all I need is a team and I’m golden, but where will I find a small team of talented individuals is beyond me..."Keyboard Bash" huh...strange name."