Our Wii and the Influence We Have on Our Neighbors

A couple of months ago some friends of ours came over and brought their Wii. This is Nintendo's newest video game system and we hadn't gotten it because we already had an Xbox 360 and knew that was the best "gaming system" on the market. Tim is very into video games and usually takes his system to work to play. He doesn't play so much at home, but the girls will have friends over to play. I can tend to get addicted to a game and try to play until I finish it (something that started in the early days of the Nintendo Super Mario game, one of my particular weakenesses) so I have pretty much stayed away from most games. Anyway...back to my story. We played the Wii that night and it was a BLAST! What makes it so different is that you have to actually move like you are bowling, playing tennis, etc. So it actually requires some activity. We decided that it would be a fun family thing to have and Tim set out on a quest to find one. Let me tell you that this was not an easy task. They are not widely available and you almost need to "accidentally" find one. One morning at work, Tim happened to see that Circuit City was getting some in and you had to go down and stand in line between 9 and 10am and then come back between 10 and 12n to get one. Well, Tim took the service truck down from work and stood in line and got the coupon and went back a little later and picked it up. My girls have had so much fun with it and even Tara can play it and smokes us all at bowling.

So now our neighbors have come over to play the Wii and have a great time. Their dad and mom decide they would like to get a Wii as well and, of course, can't find one. So, after Tim gives him his best tips, he starts looking for one and finds out Best Buy and Game Stop will be getting them in at the end of the week. He starts going to the store and sees a UPS truck and follows it to the store and waits for the guy to find out if he has any Wiis in his truck. Can this be considered stalking? He has to wait for the guy to unload the Wiis and inventory them so he can finally purchase it. It totally sounds like something Tim would do and so I have to wonder...are we a bad or good influence on our neighbors? Video games can be a lot of fun if they don't take over your time and life and this one, in particular, can provide for a lot of family fun. I hope they have as much fun with it as we have had.