Right now I am burdened with a decision, and I don’t know how to decide.

A woman came to me today with a broken Nintendo DS. Her touch screen wasn’t working. I had a look at it, and it definitely wasn’t working. The console is two months old so I told her I would send it to Nintendo for her. She was very upset. Within the first fourteen days we can swap a Nintendo DS for a new one, after that it needs to be sent for repair. It’s just the way things are. She didn’t like this and said she would go the the Office of Fair Trading. I told her that was a great idea and handed her back her Nintendo DS.

“Why are you giving me this back?” She asked.

I explained that, if she wants to make noise, and talk to the Fair Trade and argue about Nintendos Policy and our Policy then it would be silly for me to help her. So I told her to take her DS and leave. After another argument I agreed to send her DS away and she said she would make some calls to big people in high places on Monday morning.

Her biggest problem was that she was going to be without her DS for at least two weeks. Big deal. I’m sure people have survived longer without bread and water. Fate would leave her without a video game for at least the next two weeks, which left her with nothing to do, its not as though she could just as easily

-read a book
-see a play
-see a movie
-visit a friend
-have a picnic
-exercise
-make a delicious meal
-watch some television
-go for a day trip to somewhere nice
-do drugs
-don’t do drugs
-volunteer at a local RSPCA
-clean a roadside
-plant a tree
-raise money for charity
-write a novel
-punch a business executive in the face
-audition for Idol
-have a nap
-join a book club
-knit a sweater
-make a baby
-have a coffee
-find a penpal
-start a fight club
-watch Fight Club (The Movie)
-learn another language
-change the batteries in smoke alarm
-change batteries in remote
-make a bucket list
-kidnap an immigrant
-get food poisoning
-get a job
-get a life
-write a poem
-write a haiku
-poison herself
-inject the antidote
-make a wish upon a star
-drive interstate for dinner at a fast food chain
-help a stranger
-donate blood
-donate hair
-check her eyesight
-check oil in car
-weed the garden
-adopt a starving child
-draw a circle
-put on makeup
-clean the gutters
-tell war stories to troubled youth
-consolidate your debt
-diversify her bonds
-update her resume

Im sure any one of those items would distract her long enough that before she knew it her Nintendo DS were fixed and ready to be played with again. But that is beside the point. I am having trouble deciding what to do now. You see, after she left I had a closer look at her DS. It had a screen protector on the touch screen. When I pulled off the screen protector the touch screen started to work again. There was actually nothing wrong with the DS, it was just a screen protector causing problems with the sensitivity. So now I need to decide whether to call the customer and tell her, or wait until the Office of Fair Trade calls me in the morning, and I can tell them.