Anime A Nice Guy Finished Last

[DeathBug]

I just need to vent on the frustrating events of my YGO hobby this weekend.

So, it starts on Saturday:

There's a YGO event at my local Toys R Us, so while my mom & sister are in the mall, I walk across the busy intersection to Toys R Us. I'd never been to this type of event, and didn't knoww hat to expect, so I left my cards in the car, figuring I could get them later if I needed them.

So, I get there, and there's some hotshot with a binder full of foils. I say I'm only looking to trade, and I only want certain Light-attribute monsters.

He opened up his binder, and my jaw metaphorically dropped. Right on the first page, he had Airknight Paraseth and Mirage of Nightmare! On page two, he had Asura Priest!!

Keeping a cool poker face, I say I'll go get my cards. I make it across the intersection, narrowly avoiding being hit by a car. I unlock my mom's car....


....And the car alarm goes off.

My first inclination is to let it go off and deal with it after I trade some cards. But no...that's not right. I can't very well expect good things to happen in my trades if I'm shirking my responsibilities. I made the alarm go off, so I'd have to do the right thing and turn it off before I went to profit for mysel.


Panicing, I race into Dillards and ask the lady if she can page from the check-out counter. (The car alarm can only be turned off with the remote lock; I only have a normal key.)

The lady tells me that only the customer service desk can page, and the CSD is upstairs. Racing up the escalator, I ask her to quickly page my mom to the desk.

The lady behind the counter kept asking question after question....I wanted her to page a woman, not arrest her! Jeez! Then...she delivers the same intercom message I gave her in the first place, thus making all the questions I answered a big waste of time.

Fortunatly, my mom showed up, and gave me the remote lock. I ran to the parking lot and turned off the alarm, then ran back inside to give my mom the lock back...but she was gone!!

After more searching, I finally give her back her lock. I go back to the car and get my cards, and make it across the intersection yet again! I make it into Toys R Us and...

....everyone's gone.

I can't imagine why they left!

There were two kids left, and I completed two trades. (The Fiend Megacyber netted me a Royal Command, and I got a two for one when I swapped my Goblin Force for a Right Leg of Exodia and a Tribute to the doomed)

Rather disappointed, I decided to just buy a PGD pack and leave...

...And they had no new boosters.

The Helpoemer is larger than life on the front page of the stinkin' TRU newspaper ad, and they have no PGD boosters!!!

So...I went back to the mall and found one shop that has some PGD. I bought one pack...

....All rags. Let's see, if I ever want to play a zombie deck, I've now got plenty of strage support cards. Just a lame normal rare, too. Sigh.

It gets better!!

There was a YGO tournie taking place the following day across town. My family and I were actually in the area, and my mom asked if I wanted to go.

My father had to complete a project for work before he has minor surgery next week. My mother had to volunteer at our church to help a Children's project. Of course I wanted to go, and I know my mom offered, but she did'nt really want to deal with it.

It would have been selfish and downright mean spirited to ask to go. I'd have screwed up everyone else's day. I'd also have enjoyed the tournie greatly, and probably made some killer trades, and gotten most of my Light deck done. (It's mostly commons.)

So I said don't bother. *Sigh* again.

But wait! There's more!

My father's second cousin invited us to her house for dinner. While there, my tiny cousins showed me there modest collection.

They had an Imperial order.

They didn't even know what they had. It wasn't 'cool' like their other cards. They offered to just give it to me.

I could have taken it....

But I didn't. Instead, I explained to them how rare it was, and told them to hold onto it. I also told them that they could name their own price if they wanted to trade it.

So, that's three times this past weekend that doing the right thing totally screwed me over.

To paraphrase a song, I'm waiting for karma to make it's rounds.

[Domon]

Short but sweet answer about the Toys'R'Us thing. They have a YGO league from 9 till 11 in the morning. I go to Hastings' league which goes from 10-12. That's why no one was there when you got back. I'm very sorry about the other things that happened.

[gouf]

But you did the right thing besides most of the guys you meet a toy's r Us leagues are all spoiled brats. I've been to 8 toyrus leagues in 5 differnt states and most of them are jearks who can't play the game and make their parents buy all their cards and the parents just spoil there kids. I feel sorry for you man but trust me i've been there i have explained the rareness gemini elf to a kid and he traded it for island turtle, some don't listen others admire me, but it always pays off in the end. Being a nice guy got me a job. about 100 kids who all thought i was cool. It also got me in a fight. It will blance out in the end. remeber that.


Oh yeah one more thing Toys r us had to make it that eraly in the morning

[SS3Vahn]

man, dude, that is just sad. a similar thing happened to me. only these little kids accused me of stealing their cards, when they honestly didnt have anything to steal! i was jus trying to make them feel good about not having any good cards. but anyway man i feel sorry for you and give you all of my sympathy. best of luck next time.

[margerabam2001]

same thing happen to me, but they acually got to steel my cards>>>

[Mina]

[COLOR=coral][SIZE=1]You poor thing, ;)
Car alarms can be annoying....and somewhat embarrassing and too bad you missed out the trading. Hopefully the PGD had some good cards. I got the Helpoemer in the first pack I got.

You did the right thing with your couins, though I wouldn't say the same for myself. :sweat:
Good Luck next time.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

[Ben]

Heh, did you ever think to give your mom the keys [I]after[/I] you were done in Toys 'R' Us? :p

[Exodus]

That bites. I would pratically shoot myself if I had the same story. But it makes me feel bad because one of my friends gave me The Last Warrior From Another Planet and this wierd 12star Asian or Korean full Exodia body for free. I hate myself for the time being :bash: :stupid:

[Domon]

That full Exodia is nothing but a fake. I've seen Chinese cards at the place I go to league, my friend was dumb enough to trade somethi ng probably worth more than a Chinese BEUD with no level stars. Personally I think he's a moron but he's content, so if he wants to look like an idiot fine by me. But anyways Exodus that Exodia card you have is a fake and isn't a true Exodia.

[gouf]

domon it is a real card in japan he came out in japan a while ago. all i know is that you need a magic card called pact of exodia to summon him.

[Masterdramon]

As far as I know, there are 2 full Exodias. One is the Chinese Exodia, which is fake. Another is Exodia Necros, which is real.

[Domon]

Exactly, Exodia Necromancer is also a low level monster, the one I saw too was Chinese cause the symbol's were not in Japanese. And Exodia Necromancer is a rare type card sorry gouf but the Chinese one I saw is a fake.

[gouf]

i never said the one i saw was chinsese.