Bloodlust

One of the things I love most about being a nerd is the community. You can approach a complete stranger whom you have nothing in common with except your fascination for fantasy, and as soon as this becomes common knowledge between you, you're friends. The other day something very similar happened to me while visiting my local Game Stop. My PS3 recently broke and I have sent it out to be fixed several times and it still doesn't work, so I decided to try to fix it on my own. I wandered into the store asking about special screwdrivers and how to accomplish my goals and the fellow working wouldn't give me a whole lot of information. I wrestled a little bit of information from him and was just about to leave when I saw the tattoo on his arm. It was a long skinny red cross with a circle around it and I knew that I had seen that cross  somewhere before. Then it hit me, the cross is on the cover of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, an anime that not very many people that I know have ever seen, even those who watch anime. I took a chance and said "hey, that wouldn't happen to be a Vampire Hunter D tattoo would it?" As soon as the words left my mouth I knew I had just made a new friend. "Yeah, it is, it's from Bloodlust. I'll tell ya what, I'm not suppose to tell anyone this but you can find what your looking for on Ebay." JACKPOT! I didn't say it to try and pry the information out of the guy, I was just making an observation but it just happened to land me the information I needed. Granted he also told me that any expert would be able to tell if I had opened it and that I wouldn't be able to sell it and my warranty would end if I did so, but what good information to have right? I guess I'll just be sending the PS3 back to best buy again.... At least I made a new friend!