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August 26, 2005

America's Funniest embarassing moments at Blockbuster

The DVD is nearly complete. We have two versions. There is Tac's, which reportedly is about 22 minutes in length, and mine, which as of this morning is nearly 30 minutes long.

Since I haven't had time to round up photos, I've decided to share with you random things like the drawings below, and today's story, which I hope you will find humorous. It is about a bizarre sequence of events that happened to me at a Blockbuster Video some years ago, while being pursued by 'video nazis' (rcr *wink*).

One particular evening I was dog-sitting for my cousin, and being rather bored decided to cruise over to the local Blockbuster. For reasons unknown, I had a strong desire to watch the movie Halloween. I've
always liked the movie, I just can't explain why on this night I was
dead-set on renting it.

So, I get to the store and go in and I head over to the "horror"
section. The store is fairly crowded that night and there is a group of two guys and two girls standing in the aisle where I knew Halloween would be. I can see about where they are standing that Halloween is situated right in front of them, and the movie is in. I hang back and act as if I'm browsing while they yammer on about whatever crap they are going to rent, waiting for them to eventually leave and go pick up My Best Friend's Wedding or something like that. Then, I hear one of the girls say, "Ooh! What about Halloween?" The group begins debating about it. "No!!", I'm thinking. The girl is adamant that they get it, but the others in the group aren't convinced yet. Finally, one of the guys suggests they look just a little more first.

As the group begins to move to the "new releases" section, I slowly
inch my way down to their end of the aisle. As soon as I determine
their attention is drawn elsewhere, I make my move and grab Halloween.

I want to make a quick getwaway so I immediately turn around and begin
walking away with my video. Not two seconds after I begin walking do I
hear behind me, "Oh my God! It's gone!" My pace doubles.
Now here's the tricky part. I was the only one in the ailse with them at the time, so I can't go straight to the register, or obviously I'm the one who took the video. So I head to the opposite end of the store to act as if I'm still thinking. Second problem. As I'm walking away, I hear one of the girls say "I think that guy took it." Well, now we've just taken this to a whole new level. The video is in my hand (I'm holding the video in front of me so they can't tell for sure if I have anything or not - at least that's what I'm thinking), and I can't let them know it's in my hand, so I have to discard it somewhere else in the store. Why is all of this running through my mind, you ask? I don't know, but for some reason, I didn't want them to think I rented Halloween
because I overheard them saying they wanted to rent it. It was my idea
first, doggone it!! So I dump the video somewhere in the "Romance"
section and then pretend to look at the new releases.

As I am acting as if nothing is wrong and I clearly have not made up my mind and certainly didn't just pick up and hide any videos, the girl approaches me.

"Um, did you just pick up Halloween and then hide it
somewhere?" she asked.

"No. No, I sure didn't," I said back to her giving her a blank stare. A few seconds of awkward silence ensues.

"Um...okay....," she finally says and goes back to her group.

Now what? I've completely dug myself into a hole now. I can't very well get the video while these knuckleheads are still in the store, watching me with their accusatory glances and stares. And I'm not going to stand around and wait them out either. The fact that I had just been busted, so to speak and despite my adamant denials, made me a little uncomfortable to be quite honest with you. So, I decided to leave, Halloween tucked safely away. If I couldn't rent it, neither could they.

I have no idea why I couldn't just own up to it and say I was sorry but I planned on renting the video before I got to the store. I completley panicked, in a sense, but once the wheels started turning, there was no way to stop it. And frankly, I loved every minute of it.
To my knowledge, Halloween may still very well be resting behind Romancing The Stone to this day. I will say this: I laughed the entire ride home.

Posted by Phil at August 26, 2005 9:52 AM

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