space-oddity's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- video store rant why do people go shopping in a store with a credit card that has someone else's name on it and think that it's perfectly normal and not the slightest bit shady? "do you take american express?" she said. i took the card, and the name on it was david ke*th. the little blonde girl standing in front of me clearly was not the famous actor we know from such great films as an officer and a gentleman and red blooded american girl II. "are you authorized to use this card?" .."he's my boss.".."i need to see your i.d., and you need to also sign your name below his on the credit slip.".."i don't know why you have such a problem with this. i use it all the time. no one else asks for i.d. blah blah i don't know why this has to be such a problem blah blah." first of all, asking for i.d. is not having a problem. i'm just doing my job, so you can shove your problem up your little bed-tanned ass. also, if i really wanted to play by the books, i would have called american express and asked if you had authorization on that account. and another thing, if you think i'm wasting your time by taking precautions, why don't you think about the precious minutes of mine that were wasted as you sat at the counter and gabbed on your cell phone while i stood patiently waiting. perhaps if you hadn't wasted my time, i wouldn't have been making such a "problem" out of this. people kill me. asking to see i.d. isn't a warrant for arrest. i won't even begin to start to discuss the people who get pissed when you ask to see their driver's license before they rent. it's a video store, and how else am i supposed to know who you are? it goes hand in hand with the people who want to rent without signing up for an account. like, where do they come from? why don't they know this is how a video store works? and yes, for the one hundred twenty-one thousandth time, [deep breath] the categories are alphabetized. end rant. mark and i tried watching 8 women tonight. it just wasn't happening. with all the random singing and dancing bits and the subtitles and the neurotic french women, we just couldn't take it anymore. we turned it off and watched igby goes down instead, and i can't really say i liked that one too much more than the first. it was so so. the characters were all just too disagreeable, but i guess that's part of the point.. if there even is one. maybe i just blinked and missed something. my cat looks like a pirate when she walks around with her left eye shut tight and the right eye wide open. searching for booty. 12:39 am - 03.06.03 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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