What is wrong with my luck? What is wrong with Wal-Mart?!?

Yesterday I went to Target to look for Onua and came back empty-handed. The entire LEGO Section was gone for a few days, as it was being "refurbished." I asked a guy working there if they had any Mistika in the back room and he came back with Krika and Gorast, the only two left. Still, though, the area was being refurbished and the guy was helpful. It wasn't his fault that they were selling well! Thanks anyways.

So then today I go to the other Target (Near the movie theater, but more on that later.) Again, refurbished. This time the guy can't find anything, but he looked carefully and you can't hold anything against him. So no Onua.

Next, as we're driving, we remember a nearby Wal-Mart. We never shop at Wal-Mart, but still there's a good chance they have it! So we stop there and I walk in and look around a bit. I scour the aisles for Mistika and find a jackpot. A big shelf at he end of the aisle is filled to the top, stacked five-canisters wide.

Five canisters wide, yes, but certainly they'd include all six sets mixed up in there, right? Nope. And guess which set's missing? Why, the one I'm looking for, of course! Onua's nowhere to be found! So I grab a Krika and bring it to a man working there and I show him the canister, line, set-number, etc. for Onua.

Now, this guy doesn't even work in the toy department- He works in the clothing department or something (I had to look for a while to find an employee), but nonetheless he's apparently a know-it-all when it comes to LEGO. So, naturally, the first thing he says is, "No, we don't have any."

"Could you check?" I ask.

But no, no checking. The things on the floor are all they have here, I'm told. On my way to return the Krika, though, I can't help but notice the massive room in the back full of all items imaginable stacked up to the ceiling...

So I ask another employee, an old man with a Scottish accent, if he can help me. He does the best he can, unlike the other guy, but informs me that he's not allowed to look in the back or use the computer to check if they have any. What? Employees aren't allowed to use the computer?

He suggests to me that the Onua sets either haven't arrived or that they'd all been bought, but common sense tends to say no. The boxes containing canister sets, as I've seen at other stores, arrive containing all six. And the shelf with all the red, yellow, green, blue, and bright colored sets was perhaps 90% full. I tend to doubt that hordes of children would storm in, take all of the one with the least eye-catching color, and leave every other set untouched.

He tells me: If it's not on the floor, they don't have it.

Those massive quantities of boxes in the back say otherwise. It's clear that either they wanted to keep the shelf organized and put out only the five canisters that fit, or the incompetent employees simply forgot one of them.

Every trip to Wal-Mart I've ever taken has been excruciating like this. You know that it's fairly obvious that they have what you're looking for, but it's always the infallible (And clearly incorrect) answer that, "If it's not on the floor, we don't have it." Or there's an insane shopper yelling and screaming at the top of her lungs (Another story), and I always have to deal with stupid rules like how employees aren't permitted to use the computer. And half the time the employees don't even speak English!

So I hate Wal-Mart. And my luck. I'm hoping to go to Toys Я Us or something tomorrow to see if they have Onua there...

Oh, and the movie was excellent. Hilarious and awesome and steampunk and with Lovecraftian cameos.

"I'm not a baby, I'm a tumor."