The wait is over

I like this commercial. Unfortunately for these kids, they're not going to get a PlayStation 3, because while they put on their Chucks and go on the roof to look at "3" shaped clouds, everyone else is lining up to get the system.

While you've been living your life this week, hard-core video gamers have been lined up outside the Best Buy in South Dade, scarfing down junk food, surfing the Web and waiting to fork over $600 for the ultimate in next-generation consoles.

It's the Playstation 3. It goes on sale Friday. And if you aren't camped out on a sidewalk outside a Circuit City, Best Buy or EB Games, you may not get one.

''I scheduled my vacation days in September for this,'' said Marvin Henderson, 25, who has been waiting outside the Best Buy since Monday. ``I knew this was coming. I planned ahead. Survival of the fittest, yo.''

Fittest, of course, meaning gamers who camp out in tents for days without showering just to buy a system that doesn't have any games worth getting. There are also reports of people paying homeless people to wait in line for them. These guys are geniuses.

I walked to the EB Games during lunch today just to check out the crowd and there were a couple kids waiting outside. I don't feel this will end well. There's already reports of "scuffles" out in San Francisco. It's Hamsterdam in real life, from the east coast to the west coast, down the Dixie Highway to back home.

This is our country.

Sony is also throwing a release party tonight at the SonyStyle Plaza on Madison Ave featuring Ludacris and Charlie Murphy, and afterwords 400 PlayStation 3s will go on sale. I got an invite to go, because I'm a big shot (not really), but I didn't because I had to watch The Office tonight. You see, Jim Halpert returns to Scranton tonight in an extended 40 minute episode. I knew this was coming. I planned ahead. Priorities, yo.

I really didn't go because I can't afford a PS3 (I'm poor and homeless) and because no one wanted to go with me (I'm not cool). And because The Office is on tonight.