Overheard at the game store

I stopped by the local video game store here in Perth during lunch the other day. It was during school holidays and the place was crawling with kids looking for new titles to play on their gaming boxes.

I was scanning through a bargain bin of Xbox games. A boy of about 10 was standing next to me also flipping through the boxes. He pulled up a copy of "Grand Theft Auto - San Andres" and excitingly showed it to his mother who was standing behind him.

"Can I get this one?" he asked her hopefully.

His mother took the game and studied the cover. She noticed the warning label, "MA15+Animated Violence, Medium Level Coarse Language".

"No you may not", she answered. "See here...", she said while pointing to the warning label. "It says language and violence."

Stumped for a minute, the boy pondered her refusal, then came up with a solution...

"I'll play it without sound then! I promise!".

Mom wasn't sold on that little idea. Clever kid though! I had to laugh.