Does anyone know the way, there’s got to be a way…
Am I the only person in the world who can use the Blockbuster movie rental stores properly?
To use a Blockbuster movie rental store properly you must:
- Enter the store
- Select an empty movie DVD case from the shelf
- Take it to the cashier, along with a Blockbuster membership card and a method of payment, who will give you a DVD of the selected movie
- Leave the store.
Whenever I try to rent a movie from Blockbuster the people in the queue ahead of me always seem to be trying to ‘break the shop’. If they’re not busy trying to rent a film that isn’t in stock or rent a video game that doesn’t exist, they’re trying to rent a film without actually being a member, or trying to haggle over the prices (“Can I rent it for just this afternoon for half price?”) *, or trying to spend a discount voucher that expired in 1998, or trying to pay in Pfennig. Whatever it is they are trying to do, they always do it ahead of me in the queue and they always take a very long time to do it.
It doesn’t help that the staff in Blockbuster are either mentally deficient, foreign, or both (although the Eastern European Avril Lavigne look-alike in the West Swindon branch is an exception). When recently trying to rent a copy of the German film The Edukators, the Lurch look-alike behind the counter struggled to navigate the hap-hazard filing system and, at first, failed to find the DVD (it was filed under E, not T). He then took great efforts to warn me that the film is German and is subtitled, am I okay with this because some people aren’t and I could choose another film if I wanted to …
The problems seem to continue even after I’ve left the store. I never actually got to watch The Edukators as the DVD had previously been rented and man-handled by Edward Scissorhands; it was so scratched it refused to play in my DVD player.
So I have to endure another visit to Blockbuster so I can obtain a refund. Maybe Lurch will get confused and think I’m demanding my money back because the film is subtitled.
*this actually happened
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