Poll of the Day > Was going through the old facebook page of the game store i managed

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Started feeling nostalgic and sad. For those who may remember I used to talk about it often and post pictures of some of the cool stuff that came in. I started off as a regular employee and worked up to store manager after a couple years. That place meant the world to me we had a solid group of loyal customers and kids who would come in and play the test systems we had set up.

Sure there was the occasional crackhead trying to sell a broken roach infested 360 but it was mostly good people. My wife at the time would stop in on Sundays and hang around with me during the slower hours. Eventually things behind the scenes with the owner and his partner started going downhill and they started jacking up the prices and started hiring bad employees who were related to one of them. By the time it shut its doors it lost a lot of the good will it had with the regulars and it really felt like a piece of me went with it. I know it was just a managerial position at a retail job but it meant a lot to me.

Sorry for the wall of text just wanted to put it into words I guess.

Rereading this I think a part of it was my marriage ended not long after that and it kinda fucked me up it's been six years or so and I've moved on but it just kinda killed the idea of romance for me.