Oh xbox 360, why must you...

So my original 360 was almost 1 year old when the DVD drive died playing crackdown.  I could hear it grinding away trying to read but it was useless.  Being just a few weeks away from the Halo 3 Beta, I used my BestBuy warranty and got a new box, but it's born on date was July, 2006.  I was a bit worried because this was 10 months earlier and I had little to no trust in a machine that had been sitting for so long.  But I bought one anyways (because I coudln't find an Elite).

So I played H3 a few times, H2 a couple but really, in the past two months, all I've done w/ my box really is watch HD movies from Netflix.  So yesterday, I bought Call of Duty 2 and within the first minute it was in my machine, it froze.  I rebooted, restarted and within five minutes it froze again.  I rebooted and restarted and played for about 2 hours without any problem.  I took a break, spent time w/ my wife and then came back to continue my gaming experience and it froze a few minutes into the campaign.  Frusterated, I restared cursing the buggy software for all the lockups as it continued to freeze until I saw the red ring of death.  DAMN IT.

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After being on hold for about 20 minutes, I finally got a support person who sounded 16, the chatter in the background was asian, and I just crossed my fingers.  It was great.  The guy took my serial number and as he told me my xbox was in warranty, me made it sound like I won a million dollars.  I wanted to reach through the phone and tell him to hurry this up and give me my RMA # politely.

Anyways, coffin should be here in a week.  Let's see how this goes.
Goose.