If I’d only had a Midigun…

27 August, 2005. 347 words.

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In other news, I’d like to take a moment to say that the personnel at Hollywood Video on Staples Mill Road suck more than is humanly possible. I go in there, the place is nearly dead. I go up to the counter to check out my movies. There’s only one guy behind the counter. There’s a guy and his 3-year-old in front of me at the counter, renting like 3 things. First of all, he’s renting Madden ‘06. What’s up with that? What grown man plays Madden ‘06?? I guess this is the first generation where the parents play more video games than the kids. Anyway, he’s got some rent-one-get-one-free card. Uh oh, this could be trouble for the brain surgeon behind the counter. Sure enough, our friendly neighborhood high school dropout cannot work the cash register to process this Pythagorean transaction. It doesn’t help when one of his co-workers comes inside from her break and asks where her cigarettes are, and Mr. ADD Cash Register Guy completely stops helping his customer to help look for the cigarettes. The co-worker then proceeds to WALK BACK OUT leaving me and the rest of the line behind me to hurl mental death threats and Christmas wishes for lung cancer at her. Some time later, there is a problem with the cash register. Should he push 99 or not? The complexity of the transaction is too much for him to bear on his own, so he has to call for help. Another woman comes in from outside who thankfully has some brain cells. She calmly helps Stupid Head finish with Madden-Is-My-Life and his kid. And then, wonder of wonders, she utters that blessed phrase that we all love to hear, “can I help the next person in line?”

My transaction took about 1 minute, tops.

Situations like this make one seriously consider the whole Netflix thing.

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