I was listening to the radio two days ago when they started talking about the new PlayStation 3. I remember my husband talking about it, how one of his co-workers got the day off just to stand in line at some god-awful hour of the morning at the local Walmart. Supposedly, Walmart was getting 50 in stock, but one of the employees came out to tell the people in line that they were only really getting 16. My husband's co-worker was 17th in line.

Without losing a beat, he turned around and stood in front of Kmart. When Kmart's doors opened, however, the employees told the people outside that they only had 2. Our poor friend, of course, was 3rd in line.

It seemed like such a trivial reason to miss work, but I laughed because I did sympathize. I'm also a gamer, though I would not go to such extremes to get my consoles or games on the day it comes out. On Ebay, PlayStation 3 was being auctioned off for thousands of dollars - the highest listing auctioned for $44,000. I figured I should stand in line for the next Xbox or PlayStation 4, since reselling was apparently good business.

Then I heard the news.

There were riots in certain cities - even shootings in Connecticut. People had died that day for the sake of a brand new PlayStation. It reminds of the time the talking Elmo doll came out, and people were trampled to death when Kmart opened for the day. What does this say about our society? I, for one, am pretty disgusted.