Writing and Stuff by Anthony Chatfield

We have a local video store that goes out of their way to make sure every new movie on the shelf is gone within 30 minutes of opening every week. It’s their “Tuesday Mania” deal, and since the local video store is all but extinct any more, it’s a pretty cool deal. You get all new releases for $1.49, and stock movies for $.99. It’s more or less a free for all of everything that just came in and everything you wanted to see the last two weeks but they ran out of.

But, getting there before the walls are littered with empty slots is nearly impossible, especially when you work the night before and don’t like to wake up at 9 am to rent movies. I don’t. So, I head out as soon as I wake up normally, but that doesn’t work out because the unemployed and moms among us have already sucked the shelves dry. Well, guess what; now I’m one of the unemployed and I’m sucking shelves dry too.

I’ve been able to get in there and rent whatever I want for a couple three weeks now and it is glorious. I’m usually already awake by 9 anyways, and then it’s just a matter of getting dressed and walking 8 blocks to the video store. And the best part; I actually have the time to watch all 6 movies I just rented…because I’m unemployed. For those that don’t understand how that one works; I get to sit around all day if I feel like it and watch movies. I don’t. If I did I wouldn’t be able to pay rent. But if I wanted to, I could, no questions asked…except by my roommate, “Where’s the rent?”

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