Menu
Home
>
>
TR Contest: Worst Nerd Shopping Experience

TR Contest: Worst Nerd Shopping Experience

By October 5, 2012 Miscellaneous, Nerdery 0 Comment

shop_photo1.jpg

It’s been an unbelievably long time since the last one — probably something Chris ran — but it’s story time again for this weekend’s TR contest, which is sponsored by me and my bigass pile of Topless Robot shirts. The theme: Tell me your worst nerd shopping experience. Now let me explain.

This can be any experience you had in any nerdy store; I’d expect most of them to involve comic shops, but there have been RPG stores, anime collectibles stores, and other stuff. But it can also be an experience you had while shopping for something nerdy. Did someone accost you in Toys “R” Us while you were trying to buy a certain Star Wars figure back in 1997, for a totally random example? It can also be a tale if you worked at a nerdy shopping establishment (which admittedly gives you guys the edge, but we all just want to read entertaining stories, so whatevs). Basically, if you have a story that involves both shopping and nerdiness, I want to hear it.

One entry per person, since you can only have one “worst” experience. Please try to limit them to around 200 words max, pretty please. The contest ends at 12:01 am EST on Monday, October 8th, 2012. Panda Jesus oh no corndog, everybody!

Related Posts

About The Author

Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.