space-oddity's Diaryland Diary

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help the aged

so the agreeing goes on and on. me, constantly agreeing that i like this stupid shit at work just so i don't alienate the customers, but sometimes it backfires. i pretend that i've seen and like these ridiculous movies, just 'cos i know that's what they want to hear.. so this man walked in today, and he asked me what was good out of this stack of movies that was sitting on the counter. now, actually i thought none seemed worth mentioning, but i went ahead and lied like i normally do, you know, just to please the customer. i rambled off a few and ended my list with the tailor of panama (a film that i have never seen and probably won't ever see because i don't want to, not because i've heard it's really bad or.. oh, god, it's a jamie lee curtis... .. i just have no urge whatsoever), so the tailor of panama.
he said, "who's in it?"
i said, "pierce brosnan and geoffrey rush."
he said, "pierce brosnan can't act worth a shit. got any good, new english movies?"
. . . i wish. i wish. if only we did, because that's what i'd be watching, and even though you don't believe me, i really don't care about the tailor of panama, and i really don't like pierce brosnan..... but i didn't really say that. i said nothing, and he left thinking that i have really bad taste in movies,
but i don't care about these things anymore
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a sixty-five-year-old man came in to rent today. he is exactly what jarvis cocker would look and act like if he were sixty-five years old.
he rented a porno.

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but no more talking shop. this is boring. more about something else later.

4:32 p.m. - 2001-09-29

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