So I go pick up a couple of games tonight a DKjr and a Ghosts N' Goblins. I get there the guy is really nice, the games are in expected condition - the Ghosts N' Goblins cabinet is pretty much shot at the bottom. I'm very happy with the actual games and the seller was a top notch guy.
So these games are in NE Indiana, and I traveled about 50 miles from NW Ohio - it's cold, cloudie. So the seller was helping me load the games and I'm like - maybe I should cover the games - I didn't.
Games are positioned with the Nintendo cab sideways up against the cab of the truck and Gn'G on it's back.
So I get like 40 miles back and stop to get a beverage - I look up and see the DKjr Monitor bezel literally blew out of the cabinet at some point during the drive. It was probably the nicest part on the game and I can't even describe how pissed off and disappointed I was/am at myself.
So I'm like fxxx that, I'm backtracking until I find that thing! So I drive back about 40 miles, until about 2 miles outside of the town where I picked the game up and realized it's gone. I remember a truck passing opposite lane hauling ass and hearing a smack wacking noise like halfway through my trip, so I look in that general area and it's not there.
I say forget about it - turn the truck around drive about 10 miles and THEN it starts raining. I drive past a stop sign and careen into a driveway and just start frantically covering these games with plastic. Thankfully they only caught a couple sprinkles, I ripped my sweater off and wiped them down, then covered them with plastic and wrapped rope around them until I had no more.
I basically lost my mind tonight - my stupidity is going to cost me whatever a DKjr monitor bezel costs and could have ruined the games. I'm so tired of having 3/4 of a game - I'm going to buy the nicest freaking bezel I can.
Screw the midwest in late fall/winter and I'll never leave a game uncovered during transit again, no matter how short the drive.
So these games are in NE Indiana, and I traveled about 50 miles from NW Ohio - it's cold, cloudie. So the seller was helping me load the games and I'm like - maybe I should cover the games - I didn't.
Games are positioned with the Nintendo cab sideways up against the cab of the truck and Gn'G on it's back.
So I get like 40 miles back and stop to get a beverage - I look up and see the DKjr Monitor bezel literally blew out of the cabinet at some point during the drive. It was probably the nicest part on the game and I can't even describe how pissed off and disappointed I was/am at myself.
So I'm like fxxx that, I'm backtracking until I find that thing! So I drive back about 40 miles, until about 2 miles outside of the town where I picked the game up and realized it's gone. I remember a truck passing opposite lane hauling ass and hearing a smack wacking noise like halfway through my trip, so I look in that general area and it's not there.
I say forget about it - turn the truck around drive about 10 miles and THEN it starts raining. I drive past a stop sign and careen into a driveway and just start frantically covering these games with plastic. Thankfully they only caught a couple sprinkles, I ripped my sweater off and wiped them down, then covered them with plastic and wrapped rope around them until I had no more.
I basically lost my mind tonight - my stupidity is going to cost me whatever a DKjr monitor bezel costs and could have ruined the games. I'm so tired of having 3/4 of a game - I'm going to buy the nicest freaking bezel I can.
Screw the midwest in late fall/winter and I'll never leave a game uncovered during transit again, no matter how short the drive.


