My child wants to learn murder.

While out shopping in the next few days, and you find yourself in a video game store like Gamestop, here’s a fun thing thing to work into the conversation if one of the employees come over to help you. The clerk says, “You finding everything you need?” and then I like to reply with (in a completely unassuming tone), “Yeah, um…my son is seven years-old and he wants me to get him an Xbox game.” At that point they either ask you, “Which game?” or you just casually say, “It’s..um…Manhunt 2.”

For those of you not up on the video game news, Manhunt 2 is supposedly the most brutally violent game out right now (or least it’s the one that the conservative anti-fun crusaders are whining the most about), so the game store clerks should’ve been warned to not sell it to kids and stupid parents. The guy will either find the game for you, or sorta get freaked out and not know how to handle the situation. Either way, it’s been something that has brought me much joy over the past few trips to the mall.