Just got time to take these pictures and post this, here are the pics in case you aren't interested in the story, in case it gets too long! 
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I took the Thursday and Friday before Christmas off to start my shopping. :freak: Most of the time I spent trying to track down a Nintendo DS lite for my youngest. Had no luck with cars or DSs for those two days but put a nice dent in the shopping nonetheless.
Friday night my wife and I were heading out to shop, first time we went shopping together for Christmas this year. She suggested we go to a certain WM to pick up some items. I said I was already there that afternoon and didn't feel like going back, but I didn't have a choice since she had some ideas for presents that I didn't have, so off we went.
Well there were pallets everywhere that Friday night, and on one was a longer RC2 box, said JL Precision on the side. I wasn't sure what was inside, but after playing possum with a few employees I cut the sucker open and sure enough it revealed new JLs!
So, I dump the box in the cart, and make way for the area where the cars are in the toy dept. figuring I'll peg them. Well of course there were no pegs for JLs, so I drove to the nearest price checker thingy. Well I scanned a car, and it came up "Please see an associate for help".
Quickly depressed me but that was only the beginning. As I pushed the cars around checking them the one with the bright white tires was staring me down. Well I went back to the box, and put the other 11 cars back in. (Forgetting momentarily that I would need the regular issue, too!)
The store was closing shortly, so I figured I'd take my chances and see what happened. Well luck was on my side that night (for a change!) and the WL rang up $3.96 just fine! So I went back to the toy dept and looked around for the pallet with the cars, and it was moved, but I found it, and secured the regular issue pictured above.
Well that was a fortuitous trip to the store to say the least. Thanks to Xmas shopping and my wife's suggestion, I have 2 great new cars in the collection.
Happy New Year all and happy hunting!
I took the Thursday and Friday before Christmas off to start my shopping. :freak: Most of the time I spent trying to track down a Nintendo DS lite for my youngest. Had no luck with cars or DSs for those two days but put a nice dent in the shopping nonetheless.
Friday night my wife and I were heading out to shop, first time we went shopping together for Christmas this year. She suggested we go to a certain WM to pick up some items. I said I was already there that afternoon and didn't feel like going back, but I didn't have a choice since she had some ideas for presents that I didn't have, so off we went.
Well there were pallets everywhere that Friday night, and on one was a longer RC2 box, said JL Precision on the side. I wasn't sure what was inside, but after playing possum with a few employees I cut the sucker open and sure enough it revealed new JLs!
So, I dump the box in the cart, and make way for the area where the cars are in the toy dept. figuring I'll peg them. Well of course there were no pegs for JLs, so I drove to the nearest price checker thingy. Well I scanned a car, and it came up "Please see an associate for help".
Quickly depressed me but that was only the beginning. As I pushed the cars around checking them the one with the bright white tires was staring me down. Well I went back to the box, and put the other 11 cars back in. (Forgetting momentarily that I would need the regular issue, too!)
The store was closing shortly, so I figured I'd take my chances and see what happened. Well luck was on my side that night (for a change!) and the WL rang up $3.96 just fine! So I went back to the toy dept and looked around for the pallet with the cars, and it was moved, but I found it, and secured the regular issue pictured above.
Well that was a fortuitous trip to the store to say the least. Thanks to Xmas shopping and my wife's suggestion, I have 2 great new cars in the collection.
Happy New Year all and happy hunting!
