Because c_s is wanktastic and that is about the last fucking thing I need.

[dramaturgy]

So did you know that when you work at a video store, you MAGICALLY get an encyclopedic knowledge of every movie ever made, ever? Yes! You do! And you are also expected to be able to name it EXACTLY from vague descriptions such as, "This guy's an assassin... and he does a job, and they were shooting at him..."

Well spank me and hand me over to my mother! I know exactly what movie you're talking about!

OH NO WAIT, I DON'T, BECAUSE I'M NOT A MIND READER.

I would bet my paycheck (itty bitty though it may be) that there are a large percentage of movies about assassins where in the guys get shot at. Just saying.

I wouldn't have really minded it this afternoon, except it happened with four different people in THREE hours and the one guy who gave me the above example asked me three damn times.

And people should just use their damn heads already. Nights in Rodanthe doesn't come out until the 10th, it says so on the board behind me. Twilight came out in theatres in NOVEMBER and is still making money, so no, it's not out on DVD yet. The Friday the 13th remake comes out on Friday the 13th of February. IN THEATERS. GFD people.

The slot to return movies is RIGHT THERE. IT'S RIGHT THERE. What's so damn hard about putting the DVDs in the slot? We have a goddamn SIGN that says "Return your DVDs in the drop slot!" with an arrow pointing TO the slot. YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY MISS THE DAMN SLOT.

Don't ask me why the outside drop slot is closed. It says "Drop slot for after business hours only." If you don't want to show your face because your movies are late and you're afraid I'll remember your face and shun you forever because of it, send your kid in. That's what every other freak does.


I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow. I hope I can get drugs.

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[lessthanpie]

I worked in a video store for several years in high school and college. LOL Good times.

My favorites were the ones who just wanted whatever was new, no matter how crappy it was, the people who wanted "That movie with that guy who was in that movie with the girl with the hair. You know the one." (No. No I do not. And yet I think I did figure it out eventually. I'm kind of a movie savant.), and the people who threw movies at me over the counter instead of just setting them down like a normal person. (We didn't have an inside slot, and the outside ones were closed in the daytime, too.)

The absolute best thing ever, though, was this couple who rented a VCR (This was back in the day, remember. Fabulous toploading machines that were actually pretty ancient already. :D) and some movies, but couldn't figure out how to hook it up when they got it home. I guess the illustrated directions on the case were too hard to follow, what with the ONE CONNECTION tvs came with then. So they called, and I tried to walk them through it. ("See where your antenna is going in? Unplug that and replace it with the cable coming out of the VCR." THE END.) I thought they were okay when they hung up, but twenty minutes later they were back in the store. With the rented VCR and THEIR TELEVISION.

I hooked them up and sent them home, where presumably they managed to figure out where the electrical cord went, and then I proceeded to die of laughter. I am still dead.

You're lucky it's all DVDs now, too. You probably get back a lot fewer that have been mangled by machines and toddlers. (I'm really good at fixing tape. It's a lost art. :D)