Be me

Take your strawman and fuck off.

I have never once encountered this odoriferous bogeyman in all my time playing Veeky Forums related stuff. If you honestly dislike the hobby because the people are overweight or "autistic looking" like in the OP, you're a faggot anyone and should GTFO.

I dislike it when my friends dont bathe, i loathe it when people i dont know do it. Fuck off and die

>unwashed neckbeard is a legend that doesn't exist
my store is a great place, but has a frequent customer we call "the great unclean one" who fittingly plays nurgle and uses great unclean ones
he smells terrible, has a gut that protrudes out of his t-shirt and over his pants, is a giant WAACfag, and is generally unpleasant to be around.

Do you even know how the thick air forms in the first place? An unwashed, overweight horde mass-sweatinf half their body weight into the air in a closed space where deodorant is nothing short of a myth is not an uncommon context to find

I was joking user. I agree about the looks bit but let's not pretend people who smell bad are a boogeyman.

No True Scotsman?

Don't joke like that when you can't control your context or tone. People legit believe that

Is there anyone who'd really look at a post saying you need to tolerate the smell of stale cum and take it seriously as if someone believes that?

I used to work at a shop, that's now closed.
While I respect the people who Run the best shops for the community I can honestly say it's probably one of the worst jobs to have, and one of the worst business to try to run.

I'll not name names, but we had 4 and a half Shops in town. Within a 5 year period, everything went to shit. If you guys want some horror stories from every end of it, I'll tell you greentext or otherwise.

Please do user

>>BisonOFCOURSE!.gif

Grognard get out

>strawman

Do you even know what a strawman is?

What the fuck are you talking about?

>Guy like user comes into store
>Complete and total brain dead chad
>Thinks he has the intelligence to play any of our games
>Would be lucky if he could understand how to play Uno
>Starts judging everyone based on appearance
>We get tired of his shit
>Proceed to combine all of our power and blast ass at him
>He almost falls to the ground crying from the smell as us true gamers are immune to it after years of not bathing properly
>He leaves the store almost vomiting
That's what FAKE GAMERS get!

Fuck yeah. That's a great find for an LGS.

Uncleanliness is one of the few things I will put my foot down about. I even sprayed my fat-ass friend with a bottle of fabreeze after the third time he got into my car without taking a shower. He only punched me in the arm and I was honestly surprised he didn't punch me in the nose, but after that he always took a shower before I picked him up.

I need some horror stories.

>Be me
>First store I did any work at did Vidya, 40k, Magic, and Yugioh. Later we expanded out.
>Pretty good first year.
>We get a couple of "Eccentrics" that start stopping by

One's 6' 5" and close to 300lbs. Let's call him "F". His best friend is the same weight, but packed into a 5' body. We'll call him "B". both were in their late 40's

>F&B become a bane of my existence. Neither wanted to buy anything, but would talk to each other for hours or try to ask unrelated questions to anyone.
>F&B show up on a 40k night. B smells like a turd covered in aftershave. F keeps asking when we'll start selling Apple 2 software.
>B starts trying to talk with the 40k players.
>B tries to get the players to quit 40k and join him in a historical game campaign that he holds at his house.
>pleaseleave.jpg
>Manager does nothing.to stop this.
>F asks a 14 year old girl hanging out with her boyfriend if she needs a ride home in their van.
>I tell them to leave for the night as it's 10 minutes to close.
>The girl and her bf thanked me. I was chewed out by my manager for making a scene.

F&B kept visiting until F was kicked out for bringing in a pornographic comic book HE DREW and trying to show it to a mother of two.

Jesus Christ MORE.

Listen here, kid. I am a level 20 veteran player who is too experienced for my own good, and any problems as a result of it, just proves how great of a player I am. New players who look better are just fluking their way to success, or applying their normie mentality to gain popularity with the other players. So despite actually being terrible role players, a fact anyone with as many years of experience as I have can easily tell, other people are lured into believing they are actually good. Then, because they are aware of how great I am, and know their cover might be blown by my presence, they might try to convince the other players I am actually not as great as I clearly am. Being young and dumb, some of the lesser intelligent players will believe this, until even those who know the truth will have to comply out of peer pressure, as their weak will crumbles to the pressure of the normies.

I can always find a new group. A lot of groups value a player as great as I am, so it doesn't matter how many of your kind I encounter. I am a diamond in a coal mine, you never expect me, but when you do encounter me, your life will become better. You will know when you finally meet one of my kind. We are rare, but we are the best the hobby has to offer, an I assure you. So unless you are part of the normies crowd, I will be the best thing to ever happen to your group.

>pro-painted tyranids

user please, these people are delicate.

Another store, this one pissed me off.
There was a nearby comic shop, guy is a great dude, been in business in 20 years, but does no events. He sells magic.

Our shop and his shop get along great. He sells a lot of product for a very low price, but his biggest market is sports, old comics, and trophies.

A new store comes in, on the same strip as us, focusing entirely on wargaming. We just had 40k and card games for TG, so this wasn't a big issue, but we did take notice.

We really took notice when they Confronted us and asked us to stop stoking 40k as it was THEIR MAJORITY OF SALES. We told them no, we've been here a year, we have a customer base, we can't just drop this product line.

They comic shop calls us two hours later saying the new shop stopped by and wanted him to stop selling magic.

I tried to be nice to these guys, but they flatly wanted to be cunts. If they new an employee would want something from their shop, they'd try to overcharge by $5 and heckle them. One of the guys tried to claim he could sue us or tell GW not to sell to us.

They somehow lasted 2 years.

>be me
>dress well and work out
>move to new large city
>walk into local geedubs
>large store with like 4 tables and painting desk
>everyone is friendly, all but one guy looks normal
>he's overweight but obviously takes care of himself
>some girls in the store painting models, one playing
>staff is helpful and friendly
>they only play with fully painted armies
>seem to be enjoying themselves and the company

>go to check the other lgs
>everyone is overweight
>immediately stare at me as I walk around the store checking the place out
>they start shuffling out of the way whenever I get close
>no women
>a bit of funk in the air
>couple people are playing
>check armies
>one is primed and the other one is bare plastic
>they are arguing whenever they other guy makes any moves
>staff is reading comic books and not really paying attention
>store is kind of a mess with bunch of random sections

Not really what I expected to see in either case.

>Game store opens in my town.
>First 6 months are great.
>always filled with people playing Magic, so it's a good place to hang.
>Undesirables start showing up.
>Autistic 15 year old and a arrogant son of a bitch 10 year old are always in the store.
>Constantly ruining games by cheating when they think they can and play ignorance when they're caught.

>"Did I drawn a card this turn?"
>"Have I played a land this turn?"
>Un-tapping tapped card when not looking.
>Changing life totals when not looking.

I stopped going to the store cause they'd always challenge people to games in magic and do shit like this.
Get these people out of your business, teach them that they can't get away with this shit or your brick and mortar will fail.

>Be me
>School lets out, kids want something to do.
>Come In, Play magic, Yugioh, most are very well behaved. I'm actually surprised by this since some are as young as 11.
>I set up small events after school, have a report card program(1 rare from the $1 rare box for each A)
> Kids love it.
>Then Baybays kids start coming around.
>These kids are hellions. I will forever hate them. I can still hear them in the back of my mind sometimes.
>We're on strip, a hair salon is right next door to us.
>This old black lady brings these kids in as she goes and gets her hair done.
>The oldest is 5, there's 5 of them
>NONE KNOW HOW TO ACT RIGHT
>Oldest keeps spitting sunflower seeds on the carpet.
>Two of the younger ones try to climb on the videogame demo units.
>The youngest keeps crying.
>KILLME.PNG
>45 minutes pass
>Old gal with new hair opens the door, we want to talk with her.
>she yells for the kids and heads right out for her car.
>There's a shitty diaper on the floor.

Cont?

Ye gods, yes

I have a store much like the first you mentioned.

I chalk it up to Veeky Forums having very little experience with FLGS, or me being lucky. Either way, I am happy that the local store is great.

The only bad story from there was this girl who had been there almost from the start. I brought my sister who had been trying to get into roleplaying games, and considering 2 other girls were already regulars, I assumed it was fine.

The one of the girls was a quiet Wargamer. The other was a fat MtG player. And oh boy did she not like new blood.

She pestered her for the first 2 days, and made my sister not want to join day 3.

The store owner was a great guy, however, and asked why she didn't show up that day. When I told him, he had a chat with the MtG chick, and afterwards told us not to worry about it again.

Fat chick stopped bothering her, and we are still going to the store now 3 years later. They pretty much just ignore each other, but considering their interests are wildly different, it doesn't really matter in a store that large.

>Get these people out of your business, teach them that they can't get away with this shit or your brick and mortar will fail.

This is so true, you do not want to cater to gross people and you shouldn't let parents treat the place like a day care. The gross people will drive away regulars/people who could become regulars unless they are gross just like themselves.

yes

>>War game club is meeting in FLGS for a few months
>>Owner/staff happy to accommodate us. We're all adults with real jobs, etc. No pizzas and liters of Mtn Dew. Coffee and donuts instead.
>>FLGS game night is usual mixture
>>Several MtG games
>>A few WH40K "games" which never seem to start or end. Various adult spergs and children attracted to the figs unpack their models, place them in the table according to notes from last week, roll buckets of dice, argue, replay previous move, rinse, wash, repeat.
>>War game club is in the back. A pair of DBM matches, a homebrew ironclads game, Old West shootout, and 2 guys playing cribbage waiting to play.
>>Soccer moms always wandering in either dropping off or picking up Junior with his Magic cards or WH40K figs.
>>Look around in despair and spot normal humans playing in the back
>>Wander over, make chit chat, eventually ask questions
>>How long have you played?
>>What do you do for a living?
>>Did you go to a university?
>>Do you have a wife and kids?
>>Answers impress them with how normal we are - Engineering degrees, medical tech, researchers, steady jobs, wives, homes, etc.
>>Soccer moms usually hang around us "normies' while waiting for Junior.
>>One mom sits drinking some coffee we gave her. Watches her kid "playing" WH40K across the room.
>>Slowly repeats to herself in the low voice "My son's a genius, my son's a genius, my son's a genius..."

Pretty fucking sad. The store was nice and the owner nicer, but we were happy to move to a local lodge hall if only to avoid the broken-hearted soccer moms.

Fuck it, I'll just tell the whole story.
>it took me two hours to clean up the mess
>Manager had to leave early(I might get to that)
>The next week Bayabay's kids make a return
>OH NO.
>I'm the only one on shift, it's 7pm.
>THIS IS MY SHIP MOTHER FUCKER.
>There's photos on my phone of the mess from last time.
>They come in, ten minutes in one is trying to throw boxes of orcs around.
>"Hey Guys, you need to get your mom in here if you want to stay in here"
>Oldest goes next store.
>Comes back 5 minutes later
>"My grammie said we can be in here"
>Tell your grammie to come in here if you want to be in here.
>Kid actually listens and goes back next store.
>Grammie arrives
>I tell her children this young can't be left here without supervision.

This was when things got insane.

>She calls her daughter, The famed Baybay.
>Grammie is cussing me out, calling me racist.
>I tell her that these kids have damaged property and littered.
>WELL STAP DEM DEM MUTHER FUCKER

>Baybay shows up, starts screaming at me.
>I tell them both we aren't a daycare, the kids have damaged stuff, yadda yadda
>Baybay pulls a knife out.
>I'm behind a counter with 911 dialed up.
>Baybay keeps saying she's goin stab me
>Cop is already pulling up. She takes off running.

one of two times I had to call the cops.

>the previous owner took all the cool old D&D stuff with him when he left
>the new guy just sells board games and magic cards

He's a lot nicer than the previous owner but I missed out on buying the Village of Hommlet.

I once walked into my LGS bathroom and. Immediately realized my mistake. Its smelled like old and new shit, and possibly death.

I won't say I gagged, but holy fuck the only reason I still stayed in there to piss is because I realized why everyone looked at me funny when I first walked into it.

Prides a hell of a drug. Dear god I can still smell it in my dreams.

>Cont?

Please post more. This stuff belongs on those "The customer isn't always right' sites.

>tolerating cheeto farts should be required
>but other smells are so extreme they're a strawman
right

how do you have half a shop?

Why do some women treat hobby shops as daycare? That's so weird.

there's a card and comic shop. Nice guy, refuses to do events, doesn't stock miniatures, doesn't stock RPG's. he sells mostly comics, sports stuff and Trophies.

He sells magic and pokemon at damn near wholesale.

>Why do some women treat hobby shops as daycare?

Women treat the WORLD as daycare, user, because being a mom is "The Hardest Job In The World" and everyone needs to help.

(For the spergs here, that was sarcasm.)

Here's another shop, probably the weirdest shop I've ever seen. it's long gone, but I'll call it MoF.

MoF looked like a pawn shop, but was selling MTG, Yugioh, pokemon, whatever. They also sold Knives, Bows, Vintage Porn magazines, old computer parts, and had an Engine Block sitting in the middle of the floor for sale.

That lasted six months. They tried crowdfunding as they alleged they were 200k in debt after closing, but wanted to open a new shop in a wealthier nearby town.

>be in high school
>check out a game store in a mall on the other side of town with two friends
>the place is amazing
>instead of a play area there are shelves and shelves of paper-back books
>obscure supplements and small press and indie stuff, going back to the 1980s
>get to know the owner and his daughters, great folks
>we swing by from time to time to talk about playing, running, and designing RPGs
>sometimes he'd insist on selling us little things at a discount, and joke like they were used, acting like a used car salesman
>"Hey, these dice are still great! They were only rolled on Sundays, to and from church. $3 for the set!"
>about four months after the first visit there's a fire in the mall
>we go to check it out the weekend after, store is shuttered, there's still visible fire damage
>ask around, turns out they lost something like 2/3 of their inventory
>store never reopens

A damn shame. It was almost ten years ago and I still think about it.

>Be me, readers.
>Go into LGS
>No one playing Warhammer
>All just sitting around researching snow
>Ask manager what's up
>"This isn't your LGS, Terry."
>"It's an Antarctic research station. "
>Christ, I really do have shit for brains.

gw is corporate and they make sure your store is run appropriately, if they get complaints they send out regional managers to check your store

and they'll get tricky, they'll pull a regional manager who's from another region to check you in case you know your regional manager

>>Baybay pulls a knife out.
I lost it

As long as they keep the store sperg-free and people coming back for games, it's all good with me.
I am really glad to have at least one good store to play at since even though it is a large city there are only like 3 stores that do wargames/warhams at all.

>an actual physical manual in sellable condition from '87
Buy it you stupid fuck.

OK, another shitty customer story.

There's this guy, he's gotta be on the spectrum, and has a few issues, but was nice enough for the first few months. He was a loyal customer, nice enough, but it became chaos after he got comfortable.

Let's call this Guy "K"
K is moderately well off, he's a bit sperg, but spends his money for use of the tables at 40k.

K starts really buying in, Gets about 3k in Orks, 4k in nids, and even buys BA by the dozen.

I also play Orks and Blood angels, so I do my best to help him make purchases.

If I was a lesser man, I would have sold him half the stock on the spot. But A happy customer is a returning customer, honesty and integrity make happy customers.

A few months pass. We have a bathroom in the back for regulars to use. K wore muscle shirts and those adidas running pants since he was a competitive weightlifter. He went in like that and came out in short shorts with a babydoll spaghetti string top.

Looked like a dark haired brock lesnar in drag. He even had the heels.
nothing is showing and he just spent $800. I'll just let it go.

Sometimes the sperg pays for that spot...

>Please be my friend and let me in your games ;_;

Lol. Since you said you were on strip does that mean it was in Vegas? If so, all that stuff isn't that surprising, but still kind of funny.

Weirdest I ever visited was in northeastern CT back in the 90s. This was before the CCG craze so it only sold RPGs, wargames, and minis. There were no game nights or events other than whatever private games the owner ran.

The building was a office/garage kind of thing. There was an overhead door on one side, cement floors, etc. The "store" occupied a only a small part where the owner had haphazardly framed up some walls and whatnot. He also began building a Tardis as a front door, you'd walk into it and then into the store. He never finished it over the several years a I visited.

His stock was a incredible jumble, stuff was just stacked and piled around with some really old stuff hidden in the mess. You could spend hours just searching through it. It was like something out of the hoarders TV shows. The owner's "real' business was computer repairs and he had a few huge 1960s IBM cabinet, reel-to-reel, mainframe cabinets sitting in the dust near on of the building's few windows.

The owner was a sweet guy with an old school hippie ponytail & goatee (it was the 90s) and a constantly running nose. The fact that the building was barely heated had more to do with that than cocaine. His wife was an engineer and had a real job which apparently supported both his "businesses". His two kids were often in the store. Towards the end, his wife was divorcing him, his kids hated him, and the store was closing. I was away when he had a going out of business sale that my war gaming friends still talk about fondly. He let the stuff on his shelves go for pennies because anything he earned would go to his wife.

A strip mall. I wish it was in Vegas.

In it's heyday, it was a part of a large shopping center. Today it's falling apart.

I can tell stories about bad customers, bad management, the other stores some more.

I can't give full details, but I can say a similar situation happened in the shop I worked. it's always a bit tragic.

Pretty sure that is a pasta. I am 99% sure I saw it a few days ago here on Veeky Forums.

>hanging out at a strip mall flgs
>soccer mom with two kids in tow storms in
>tosses down several open pokemon boosters and demands a refund
>kids didn't get the cards they wanted
>clerk refuses, tries to explain booster packs
>soccer mom goes into turbo bitch mode
>makes all kind of (non-violent) threats
>storms out screaming she won't shop here again
Soccer moms using strip mall lgs as free daycare. That's pretty much a lgs story archetype at this point.

>Since you said you were on strip does that mean it was in Vegas?

"Strip" can also refer to "strip malls", those low end retail spaces which can be had for low rents.

I seriously doubt a fucking game shop could be found on the Vegas Strip with it's millions per linear foot rents, no matter how much GW wants for it figs.

Oh god I had a dad that pulled that kind of shit.
Kid would trade in video games for store credit, dad would be there for it, he'd buy pokemon cards and want to trade those in for store credit for video games. Dad got pissed when I would take the majority of the cards, and only for $10.

We got a BBB complaint for that.

Sorry, I wouldn't take the majority of pokemon cards.

The problem with gaming is the people that do it.

>A few months pass. We have a bathroom in the back for regulars to use. K wore muscle shirts and those adidas running pants since he was a competitive weightlifter. He went in like that and came out in short shorts with a babydoll spaghetti string top.
>Looked like a dark haired brock lesnar in drag. He even had the heels.
this isn't real

It seems to only be a problem in burgerland.

Was this place in Western Massachusetts?

>local FLGS
>Mostly obnoxious people there, but store owner is cool, and he is very good at importing models or paints in requests.
>I am a painter more than anything, I like painting up armies without actually playing with them. I just put them in display cases with dioramas.
>This kid comes in, maybe 8, and sits at the painting table. Start painting up some Tau mechanics
>Starts helping him, as he looks a bit lost.
>Surprisingly great considering how young he looks, and with just a few pointers, and showing him a few tricks, he actually makes a pretty bitching Crisis suit in a pretty neat Tron like colour scheme.
>Mom comes in to pick him up
>Thinks I printed the model
>Never put a brush on it
>Her kid starts painting another one
>She let him finish another one.
>has to give him a few reminders and show him some of the painting techniques again
>Mom is just watching quietly.
>as he finishes the second model, she is super impressed, and goes on to praise him for like 30 minutes as I just continue working on my own models
>She asks when I expect to be there next time
>excuse myself saying I am not sure, just when I have time after work, as I don't want to become a non-paid baby-sitter
>Asks if we can schedule a date at her place in the weekend instead
>Mfw
These people, I swear to God. You can almost smell the desperation.

I'd like to say It wasn't always bad, My manager hated to WPN program, GW rep was very high pressure. There was tons of other issues, but if you look past the chaos there's a charm to it, when I started doing RPG nights, I had an amazing time and was getting paid for it.

I made a lot of friends, a lot of good memories, but yeah, it's not an easy job to balance. And to be quite honest not many shops can do it well.

+1

I can try to dig up a photo of him. But It's been at least 5 years since I last saw him.

>go to LGS
>average people inside
>quickly find the book I'm looking for
>buy some dice too
>get a cup of coffee from their cafe on the way out
Crazy, right?

I'd rather not say where, but I'll just say the midwest and leave it at that.

>roll up into my FLGS
>guy who runs it is ex-gw
>he's his own boss
>slings magic cards to stay alive
>decent board game stock but a good $20 more than amazon and amazon is $5 more than local online stores
>lots of wargames blisters filling up the walls collecting dust
>carries GW paint and Vallejo because he's retarded
>lots of table space
>board games for rent off to the side
>boxes and boxes of "terrain" lots of plastic citadel pieces though
>setup for a game of warhammer 40k
>some drooling retard with two boxes of magic cards (which he is cracking) looks over and says, "I could never afford to play warhammer"
>point out to him that my army costs less than those two boxes and has models that are from 10 years ago

Having been a magic judge I know that some players aren't stupid, but a great deal of them are. So many cardboard warriors with dreams of being a pro but they're as dumb as they come in all honesty.

say it with me, fly-over state.

The worst experience I’ve had at my LGS was when a hobo knocked on the glass window next to where I was sitting.

>We don't have it in stock but we can order it for you

No fucking shit, dumbass I came to your store to try and give you money and the only thing you can offer me is the chance for an impulse buy.

>I can't give full details, but I can say a similar situation happened in the shop I worked. it's always a bit tragic.

Don't get me wrong, I loved that store but I'm amazed it stayed open as long as it did. I had to make about an hour drive from where I lived to visit it and the owner. I'd only spotted it by accident when driving between Providence and Hartford on business once.

The location was insane. He was in this rural area 1+ from both Providence and Hartford, about the same from Groton and the navy base, and maybe 45 minutes from UConn. Where the fuck would any of his customers come from? This was long before internet sales too. I found it by accident, spread the word at game nights, and a famous long running game store in Groton used to let people know about it too, but you can't build a customer base like that.

It was the early 90s, the internet was dial up BBS boards, no google, yelp, or anything like that. When I traveled on business checking physical copies of the Yellow Pages was how I found FLGS to visit.

Anyway, it was painfully obvious that the owner wasn't earning enough from either of the "businesses" he ran to pay the light bill. He was going to fold sooner or later and the divorce just meant his wife pulled the funding which had let him "play store" all those years.

OH FUCK I HATE HOBOS IN STORE

I've had to kick out more than a few that wanted to treat the shop like a pawn shop. They smell as bad as the worst of the unwashed players.

One of the reasons I want to stay in my current city is it has two GWs and an FLGS that is open 7 days a week until midnight

Admit it, you really were only in the store long enough to get beaten in the 1st round of the Yugi-Oh! tournament and then your mom drove you home and bought you a Big Gulp and some nachos on the way.

>Local store is dead during the day
>By nightfall the Group arrives to play DnD.
>GM'd by a 60-something man and his wife.
>Have a party of like 9 regulars
>Others periodically drop in and out, while they aren't around, characters are kept in the party like NPCs
>Party is more like a small army in a campaign that has been going on for a year now.

Can't help but admire that sort of dedication

The owner of our store was in a relationship with the manager for 10 years before they opened.

She paid for him to be manager. She paid rent, she paid stock, the store had a decent first year that wasn't bad

Worst decision from the start is all I can say.

>FLGS needs to have EVERYTHING STOCKED
grow up dude, if they stocked 2 of everything or even everything they'd go out of business without moving 10% of it

you should order from them anyways, before you know it whatever you wanted will be there, you've got a painting backlog and a gaming backlog so place your order and chip away at what you have

before you know it your new stuff will be in

Did you fuck the daughter?

I'm torn on this. It's no good to not have something in demand in stock, and a wide array of product is needed. But If no one shows intrest in a product (Like Robotech), I don't feel like risking cash and shelf space on Robotech.

Yet someone will get mad when you don't have an OOP or game that just doesn't sell well.

>Yet someone will get mad when you don't have an OOP or game that just doesn't sell well.

Dude I know guy who worked RETAIL and they'd be pissed if they didn't have something they wanted to buy in their store.

Literally their job is to convince people to order something in and they didn't want to do it.

AND THEY KNOW HOW FAST SOMETHING COMES IN. GW ships shit hella fast to stores, hella fast. They say 4-5 business days but I've seen things come overnight and it's almost always 2 days. And the fucking staff STILL wanted to pull shit off the walls I don't get it man.

>Real gamers
>Real men
Pick one and only one

Like we've never seen Beast of War.
Weak bait is weak.

Fucking niggers.

I can agree that waiting a few days for a duct is just a harder sale than a product that's waiting to be taken home.

When we'd order just it was comparable to amazon Prime, and people would rather just do that.

>She paid for him to be manager. She paid rent, she paid stock, the store had a decent first year that wasn't bad

I see "stores" like that all the time and not just game stores. It's usually the wife wanting the "play store" and the husband footing the bill because it's cheaper than divorce.

I live in an old northern New England mill town. The mill is long gone and the town successfully re-purposed nearly all the buildings. There's a nice little "downtown" with brew pubs, restaurants, and various businesses. A few store fronts change hands like clockwork every 18 months or so and they're always the same kind of knick-knack, objet d'art, tchotchke emporium owned by some middle-aged mom looking for something to do now that the kids are off to college.

They get to play store for a while until their husband has enough documented proof in the form of bills to convince them it isn't a good "idea". It's basically daycare for middle-aged women.

There's a D&D group like that at a university near me. All the original players dropped out long ago - like 20+ years ago - but the campaign keeps going on.

>When we'd order just it was comparable to amazon Prime, and people would rather just do that.

>people rather give their money to a soulless corporation

Capitalism is a failed system and nobody even had to sabotage it

>At local GW
>little Boy outside sitting in cardboard box 'will work for food' written on it..
>Is managers son
>Two poles playing warhammer fantasy
>Manager swears at them in polish for playing a dark age game
>Woman walks in
>Asks if manager can repair her shoes
>manager politely explains
>woman leaves confused
>Manager gets lump hammer from under gaming table
>'ill fucking use this on anyone else who has any stupid fucking questions like that'
>Laugh and buy some Tyranids.
>just another day at GW

>FLGS/CBS opened 39 years
>Kinda musty, has tons of stuff that hasn't been made in years.
>Largest in my state, 5th largest in country
>Run by same family when disaster strikes they help affected rebuild their game collection at cost and donate to help them get started. Also willing to let customers buy on credit.
>Is known for being a sort of gaming Tutankhamen's Tomb attracting people looking for OOP stuff.
>Never raise prices on older items, Magic is the exception.
>Does not sell anything online because they enjoy human interaction with customers.
> Has largest collection of terrain in the south, can easily make 40 tables for war games.

>People bitch about it because of the family friendly speech policy and they bag comics and won't let you read them.

>MFW

I can say it was his dream to own a store.
A dream he ruined.
I'm a bit bitter about it.