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It’s all about who you know, that’s what they say. Knowing who I know
certainly isn’t a bad thing as, over a month prior to release in the UK, I recently
managed to obtain what must surely be the only second hand NintendoDS in the country! It
may have been my clearly unbelievable luck that lead me into fate’s devious trap, and
the events that follow, as everything in life has a way of somehow balancing itself
out…
Late one night whilst
driving home, through the bewildering darkness of deepest Norfolk, I encountered a stretch
of winding road. As I travelled around s-bends into long corners onto bridges and through
lightly wooded areas, my car became unruly, and my rear wheels locked in place. With a
depressing lack of resemblance the all-to-cool future cars seen in Back To The Future:
Part 2, my vehicle took to the air with less than grace, colliding with opposing bank,
before letting gravity take it’s course - pulling the automobile back to earth. For
reasons I could’ve explained a thousands times at that split-second, but since seem
to have eluded me, I released my seat belt and leapt from the vehicle’s driver-side
window.
The rather matchbox-like Fiesta sauntered down like a cat – with all four
wheels firmly on the ground, before a rain of cassette tapes and paperwork thundered onto
my already rather dazed cranium. After struggling to regain twenty-twenty vision for the
second time within 20 seconds, I noticed a small grey pouch lying in a puddle of mud.
Whilst reaching for my beloved new toy, a car screeched towards me and an off-duty Police
Officer catapulted himself onto the street in true Dukes Of Hazard style. I still
swear he was trying to deafen me just so I’d have to get checked up at the hospital,
but after a blink in the direction of my hands, he understood the real issue.
I flipped open the shy screens and powered up, to find not a single scuff, scratch
or scrape. The relief washed over me, and the realisation that the hand reaching for my
new NintendoDS stylus was currently resting against my forearm took hold with a shockingly
brutal outburst…
The moral of this story? Well, there’s two – that device is durable. All my
brother’s kids all welcome to touch away; their grubby mitts are made for the system,
but they can still keep away from that PSP screen. Secondly, respect the emergency
services – six police cars, one paramedic and one ambulance – the entire of Norfolk’s
nightly resources for one NintendoDS. |
