Christmas spirit: Guy gives away Wii ticket

Dorfdad · (12-30-2006, 01:57 AM)

Now this is the stuff that makes the season so much more fulfilling. Check out this post on the Dean Guitars forums that really brings out the holiday cheer.

The story goes that forum poster JammerML was visiting different stores to get a shot at buying a Nintendo Wii for himself. After a couple of stops, he finally finds a store that had 15 tickets for the shot at a Wii with only 14 people lined up. He continues,

A lady had gotten in line behind me, and convinced herself that not everone in line was actually going to buy one, and that some of them were likely just standing in line together. She called her husband, and told him to go ahead and bring their son up there, as she thought they were going to get one, and it would be a big surprise for him.

The kicker was that the lady's son was wheelchair-bound. "She was devastated (sic- devastated) when they handed me the last ticket, the look that only a parent knows all to well when they let down their child."

You can guess what he did next. He gave the boy the ticket, said Merry Christmas, and walked away. He writes, "It sucks to know that I cannot win, but at the same time... It felt like a win to me." All we have to say is that you're wrong. It was definitely a win for you.

via: http://www.deanguitars.com/forum/vie...er=asc&start=0

He goes on to write that he Needed to get this story out a bit. Take it for what you will, but It felt good to be a little bit of Santa this Christmas.

Do me a favor if ya can, help those who need it this christmas, even if it's just a smile....IT really does make a difference.

Congrats to you Jammer your spirit is what we need more of... Have a Happy New Year may your blessing be passed on to you and your family in the comming year!

I hope all you ebayers feel a little guilty.. At least a little.

MaestroRyan · (12-30-2006, 02:00 AM)

Everyone knows the Mom was trying to get it for her deadbeat husband and was so desparate to please him she paid off a cripple to act like her son

this guy got pwnt

jarosh · (12-30-2006, 02:00 AM)

orfdad

CrapSandwich · (12-30-2006, 02:02 AM)

Sorry, but I'm way too hardcore for this story.

*sniffle*

sprsk · (12-30-2006, 02:03 AM)

Our very own srider did the same thing, ain't he just the greatest.

temp · (12-30-2006, 02:04 AM)

What a weird thread.

Core407 · (12-30-2006, 02:06 AM)

Moral of the story: it's good to be crippled.

echoshifting · (12-30-2006, 02:08 AM)

I don't get it.

Norse · (12-30-2006, 02:10 AM)

I handed the only ps3 in the local best buy to a family on xmas eve morning....and yes, I felt so frickin good the entire day....I got another ps3 just yesterday. I just told them merry xmas and they were so happy. They are only video game systems people. Much more important things in life.

MaestroRyan · (12-30-2006, 02:13 AM)

Originally Posted by Norse:

I handed the only ps3 in the local best buy to a family on xmas eve morning....and yes, I felt so frickin good the entire day....I got another ps3 just yesterday. I just told them merry xmas and they were so happy. They are only video game systems people. Much more important things in life.

they are probably going to sell it for drugs

thanks for helping crime

westical · (12-30-2006, 02:15 AM)

Originally Posted by Norse:

I handed the only ps3 in the local best buy to a family on xmas eve morning....and yes, I felt so frickin good the entire day....I got another ps3 just yesterday. I just told them merry xmas and they were so happy. They are only video game systems people. Much more important things in life.

You should have told them that while you were buying it for yourself.

Mike G.E.D. · (12-30-2006, 02:20 AM)

At least he didnt give it to his girlfriend.

Norse · (12-30-2006, 02:26 AM)

Originally Posted by MaestroRyan:

they are probably going to sell it for drugs

thanks for helping crime

they didnt need to sell a ****in ps3 to earn money for drugs...they had money. Not everyone lives in the hood....you need to stop playing GTA games as you have lost it.

Shompola · (12-30-2006, 02:53 AM)

Would be a better story if the kid was the one who posted it and not the guy who got the ticket. Now it just looks like he is bragging even if he isn't.

KyanMehwulfe · (12-30-2006, 03:00 AM)

A guy here in B.C. gave away a PS3 for $1 to someone deserving. And he paid $1800 for it originally on eBay apparently. I saw it on the local news. There's a website for it - it has advertising on it so I'm not linking it - so I assume it's been dugg or spread around at least a bit.

OuterWorldVoice · (12-30-2006, 03:07 AM)

I sold my Wii at cost to a French Canadian who wanted it real bad. In a way, I am better than ten United Nations envoys.

Stabby McSter · (12-30-2006, 03:28 AM)

Originally Posted by Stinkles:

I sold my Wii at cost to a French Canadian who wanted it real bad. In a way, I am better than ten United Nations envoys.

You know what would be better?
Giving me a Halo 3 Beta code.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Dragmire · (12-30-2006, 03:48 AM)

I was so happy when that guy gave me the ticket that I only sold the Wii on eBay for twice the markup. And my legs are almost better.

Lobster · (12-30-2006, 03:50 AM)

Story made me smile. Can't believe so many people still lining up for a Wii..Ah..the good ol days of "Walk in and out"

colinp · (12-30-2006, 03:51 AM)

Originally Posted by MaestroRyan:

they are probably going to sell it to terrorists

thanks for helping terrorism

fixed.

Nabs · 04:17 AM

Originally Posted by Norse:

they didnt need to sell a ****in ps3 to earn money for drugs...they had money. Not everyone lives in the hood....you need to stop playing GTA games as you have lost it.

terrible

Testicular Sound Express · (12-30-2006, 04:07 AM)

zomg you're on **********. Fame confirmed

Galactic Fork · (12-30-2006, 04:08 AM)

For every story like that, there's 100 like this: A friend from work was trying to find a Wii for her boyfriend, and managed to locate a store that had some. She got in line at the store and the guy in front of her got out of line and left the store. He returned a little while later and got back in line behind her. He didn't say anything to whole time, until it was clear that she was getting the last Wii. The man shoved her, grabbed the Wii from the counter, and was yelling how she had cut him in line. He had to be dragged away.

This was before she got a chance to pay for it, and she left the store in tears. One of the workers chased her down and put her name down on a list to get the next one they got in. They gave the Wii to the next person in line (After the crazy person) cause she left the store before paying.

Dragmire · (12-30-2006, 04:11 AM)

Way to bring the thread down.

lexi · (12-30-2006, 04:18 AM)

So he just gave the pre-order ticket? He didn't actually give away a monetary value?

Let us praise this saint of mankind!

Wario64 · (12-30-2006, 04:21 AM)

Originally Posted by lockii:

So he just gave the pre-order ticket? He didn't actually give away a monetary value?

Let us praise this saint of mankind!

Preorder? The console has been released for over a month.

lexi · (12-30-2006, 04:24 AM)

I guess pre-order doesn't work. Just ticket then?

Chris_C · (12-30-2006, 05:44 AM)

Originally Posted by Mike G.E.D.:

At least he didnt give it to his girlfriend.

You buy houses for girlfriends, not videogame systems silly.

tetsuoxb · (12-30-2006, 05:57 AM)

Originally Posted by sp0rsk:

Our very own srider did the same thing, ain't he just the greatest.

So did ourmuov.

Azelover · (12-30-2006, 06:13 AM)

Originally Posted by Shompola:

Would be a better story if the kid was the one who posted it and not the guy who got the ticket. Now it just looks like he is bragging even if he isn't.

Who cares really? The important thing is the example. He did something pretty simple that a lot of people wouldn't do, I see no problem with him passing it on or even bragging about it.