08.06.01 - 1:55 a.m.
Before I begin, let me just say that it is obscenely hot in this room and I'm plotting to shoot whomever it was that decided it was a good idea to turn the air conditioner off tonight.
Moving forward... (figuratively). Friday night and Saturday night were like hell on earth at work. Granted, I love working at the video store, but Friday and Saturday nights are the busiest days, naturally. And it just so happens that Myself and Nijel and Bradley are scheduled for nearly every single one of them this month.
And this past Friday and Saturday night, (could i be more repetitive?) it was storming, like, hurricane Stan storming or something. And so I guess people in this town think that the world is coming to an end when it rains and that they'd better run out and get the last copy of Castaway off of the shelf so they can die happy before everything crumbles and the earth is sucked into oblivion.
And then, fifteen minutes later, when fifty wet and sweaty people are packed into the video store and the place smells suspisciously like a wet dog, and the rain finally subsides, forgive me for not being a ray of fucking sunshine on their gloomy fucking day okay? And, for the last time, NO! We do NOT have any copies of The Family Man hidden away back here.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, I've got copies of The Family Man, you can't find it.
*rolls eyes*
Whatever, stupid customer #657, NEXT!
And what is it with people coming in and asking for movies that haven't even come out in theaters yet. Namely American Pie 2 and Rush Hour 2? And stuff that's still in the theaters,
Customer: "Do you have Pearl Harbor?"
Me: "As in, the movie with Ben Affleck?"
Customer: (excited) "Yeah! That's it! You got it?"
Me: "Lemme see.... NO. It's still in theaters, but thanks for playing."
And people complaining about late fees like they've never heard of a late fee before. Like the rules on late fees weren't established BEFORE TIME BEGAN. Like, "Yes mister asshole sir, when you put it in the overnight drop box after close, but before midnight, you still have to pay late fees."
Last night, Nijel had a guy like that, and OH MY GOD you should have heard him. That guy was the last customer of that kind that Nijel was able to handle. This guy was a real peice of work too, I was overhearing and I couldn't beleive that Nijel stood up to him. I almost died right then and there. I had to look away so I wouldn't laugh.
Mr. Asshole Sir: "Do you know how long I've been coming to this store?"
Nijel: "Don't know, don't care."
Classic.
It's times like these when I feel a strange kinship to Randall from Clerks. You gotta love that guy. The wisdom of a video clerk.
