Actually, a striker IS part of the team.

Kinda wish you had called the news, honestly. More reports like yours and @hugos46's might make people take it seriously. Keeping quiet just means they can keep saying we're all making it up.

That's a real fear... watching a shop lose its soul to stay afloat. Saw it happen here too, where the back-issue bins got replaced by a whole wall of those Pop figures. The owner said he had to move what sells, but man, it just feels like a movie merch store now. Daniel's book club idea sounds like the only lifeline for the oddball stuff. Gotta make a space for it, or it just gets crowded out.

Sending it back sounds good until the whole unit's down for a week.

Remember when people used to burn their favorite songs onto CDs? My buddy made this perfect mix for a road trip, and halfway through the desert, the CD just gave up. Started making that awful grinding noise. That's the same feeling as a dead flash drive, just with less dust. At least with a metal plate, you can't scratch it by accident while digging for snacks.