I Feel Guilty
Thanks to reader Nick (Twitter) I now have an Iron Man 2 Hulkbuster, but in thinking about my trip to Target I feel a little guilty about how I managed to score one. Nick notified me through Twitter that a Target in Austin had Hulkbusters and he moved them to the back of the pegs for me so I set off to Target.
As I reached the Iron Man 2 action figure display in Target I noticed someone else starting to search the pegs. I started looking at the back of the pegs beside the ones he was searching, but the overstocked pegs led to figures falling off the rack as I snagged the last Hulkbuster and then a Guardsman.
Thinking back about how that went down I feel a bit guilty. By digging right to the back, and knocking some toys off, I had to look like a rude geek to the other shopper. Knocking toys down was completely unintentional (and I picked them up), but what’s the proper etiquette for toy shopping when someone else is looking through the same display? Should I have waited until he finished examining the available figures?
Man, now I feel like a jerk.
Everyman for himself! hehehehe. I cant count the times where I have seen a fellow collector load up on a whole pegs worth of a new toy wave and I get nothing left for me. Sometimes we gotta look like Ubernerds to get our plastic fix. It could be worse, I could have hidden them somewhere else in the store and no one else would have even had a shot at him.
Don’t feel to bad, it’s not like you’re going to ebay it. It’s good you feel remorse & sadness because that means you still have a heart. I’ve seen collectors/ scalpers buy every single toy on the pegs because it was a store exclusive.
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Its the nature of the beast. The other dude should have parked in the handicap. Then maybe he could have beaten you to it. Hope you got to use your $5 off coupon.