Both Ends of the Spectrum...

The Unlucky Part: I was playing my brand spankin' new Grand Theft Auto 4 game. Running a muck all over the city. When all of the sudden, FREEZE! No, that wasn't a cop yelling freeze. That was my game freezing, locking up, ceasing to exist. Yeah... Anyway, I turned the damn thing off and went to bed. While I was at work I pulled up google and searched for "GTA IV" only to find that a lot of people have been getting this same error. Great... So I go home and turn on my game. What do you think happens? NOTHING. The game is screwed. Well... yay.

The Lucky Part: So I call Gamestop in the mall and tell them that I know there are problems because I read it all over the internet. I tell them that my game is screwed and expect to hear nothing good from this guy on the phone. To my delight, he tells me to come right in and pick up another copy. Ok... That was easy. So I drive over to the mall, not to happy to be there, but I'm about to get a new game so whatever. Do the 'ol switch'a'roo. Then back to the house I go. The new game works perfect. But wait... What is this? What is this I have found in my game box??? Holy Hell! It's a coupon card with 1 Month of free XBOX Live gameplay! Hot damn! But wait... Why didn't I get this in the first game? You know, the game I waited in line for until MIDNIGHT to get. Yeah, why didn't I get it in that one? So, I called up the guy at Gamestop again.


"Hello sir. Is the new game not working either?"

"Oh no, it's working just fine. I'm killing people right now."

"Great!"

"But, why didn't I get this free card to play online in my other game?"

"Ohhh... Actually, you got very lucky."

"Very Lucky?"

"Yeah, those were only supposed to go in the Special Edition games. But they made a packaging mistake and put it in 1 out of 10 regular edition games."

"Ahhh! I see. So I was very unlucky at first, and now I'm very lucky."

"Uhm, yeah I guess so"

"Well, well, well. Things seem to work themselves out, I suppose."

So anyway, I guess I visited both ends of the spectrum dealing with this game. I got online last night with my friend Scott, and we killed people left and right. Oh yeah! Apparently, Scott got lucky too. He got one of those cards as well. So, HAHAHAHA! to all of you people that paid extra for the special addition! I gots mines fo free!!!