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What is your white whale?
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Just curious ChadTower. How did you react?
I know I would have seen white (like that explosion of white pain you get when you violently stub your toe), fell flapping to the floor like a fish freshly out of water and start screaming new and improved obscenities never before heard by mankind.
ChadTower:
I did it at my workplace after having won the machine at auction (Twilight Zone). Luckily I was alone in the room, so while I was very very quiet, I did just sit there for a couple minutes contemplating the stupidity of my existence. It was a Douglas Adams moment for sure.
After evaluation, only one corner was structurally damaged and was repairable without detection from the outside, and the "glass" sound was actually the cabinet striking the piled up legs on the ground. No glass had actually broken, not that that really matters in a modern pin, but the sound... it was like slapped hit in the face with a steaming bag of my own idiocy.
Jeff AMN:
ChadTower,
So it sounds like you were able to fix it though, right? Don't worry, I've got a little story that will make you feel better about anything stupid you've ever done.
My uncle had a friend that used to run an arcade distribution company in the early '80s until the middle of the '90s. During that time there were a few machines he left boxed up and never sold or never got out to a location. Anyway, about 10 years ago, when my uncle was diagnosed with cancer, his friend gave him a NEVER PLAYED Pinbot and Missle Command. They were beautiful. Well, when my uncle died, a few years passed and neither had been played for quite some time. My aunt remarried, and eventually sold the two machines FOR $100 TOGETHER. When I visited and saw that the machines were gone, my stomach dropped. When she told me the story I almost fainted.
To think that they could have been mine if I only knew that she was planning to unload them.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Jeff AMN on March 28, 2007, 10:42:13 am ---So it sounds like you were able to fix it though, right? Don't worry, I've got a little story that will make you feel better about anything stupid you've ever done.
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Yep, did get it fixed.
--- Quote ---To think that they could have been mine if I only knew that she was planning to unload them.
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Everyone has one of those stories, I think.
Kremmit:
--- Quote from: horseboy on March 28, 2007, 12:23:05 am ---
--- Quote from: Kremmit on March 28, 2007, 12:19:24 am ---Moving one of those things is the second worst arcade-related task there is.
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Ok, I'll bite. What is first?
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Moving two.
Bah-dum-bum!