Old Blockbuster Sucks: Again with the random.

[Lots42]

Pre No-Late Fee (WTF) Blockbuster Sucks

- Why are you confusing us with Hollywood Video? It scares me you are hallucinating so badly and driving.

- There are other Blockbusters closer to you. Why come here and act insane?

- Possibly because we are first in the phone book, customers would call us for numbers to other Blockbuster stores. When we put up a list of closest BB store numbers next to each phone, they started calling us to ask for stores even farther away/quite possibly stores they imagine existed. This sudden change scared me.

- Just needing to run up and drop off a tape is not an excuse to ignore the laws of the parking lot. It amused me to see cops ticketing people.

- The interior drop box is literally right below your nose. Why can't you see it?

- Part of our membership application were not required. This is fine. But crossing out one line of info to protect your identity is useless when you just wrote out ten other lines of I.D. info.

- Bad Service: Rookie employees exclaiming out loud how many tapes a customer had. Customer WTF: Customer throwing a rage fit. Don't rent so many if the number makes you mad!

- I wish it was legal to make customer rent the movie that they were hoping was -not- in because they wanted a free rental coupon. And no, the Garunteed To Be In did not apply to all movies.

- I just checked the drop in box thirty seconds ago. No new tapes came in because I would have heard it. If you ask me to check the box, I will go back in time to ten minutes before your parents had sex and pull the fire alarm.

- Is rewinding it so difficult? (Yes, folks, I worked at Blockbuster when dinosaurs roamed the Earth).

- We were the only ones open late at night. Mean pot heads would come in for snacks. I have been informed most pot heads are not mean. I have not actually encountered nice pot heads.

- I have no problem with people renting the softcore porn (LOL Family Friendly Blockbuster). I had a problem with people returning the porn looking as if they took the tape to a mud wrestling contest. At least I hope to god it is mud.

- Yes, I am cleaning that shelf near you because I suspect you of shoplifting. Protesting that you are not means nothing. Well, that's not true. It means I will suspect you of shoplifting even more.

- Not a suck : It amuses me when a family rents Little Mermaid and Some Movie Filled With Boobies at the same time.

[fireheart]

- Not a suck : It amuses me when a family rents Little Mermaid and Some Movie Filled With Boobies at the same time.

There are so many ways I could take that, and most of them would result in me getting hit by the CS.com salmons. So I'll go the safe route:

I'm wondering what happens if the kids get bored and discover Mummy and Daddy watching the Boobarella flick.

[draggar]

- I wish it was legal to make customer rent the movie that they were hoping was -not- in because they wanted a free rental coupon. And no, the Garunteed To Be In did not apply to all movies.

That's what mine does - the voucher is to rent out THAT movie and that movie only - no others.

[Broomjockey]

There are so many ways I could take that, and most of them would result in me getting hit by the CS.com salmons. So I'll go the safe route:

You mean "I thought The Little Mermaid WAS a boob flick?"

This behaviour, while humorous, at least makes sense. One flick for the kids, one for the parents once the kid's in bed. Not like most of the other behaviours.

[Soulstealer]

There are so many ways I could take that, and most of them would result in me getting hit by the CS.com salmons. So I'll go the safe route:

I'm wondering what happens if the kids get bored and discover Mummy and Daddy watching the Boobarella flick.

And lo! The Prince tried on the glass breast on all the hot eligible ladies of the land, and also he tried to make sure other things were the right size.

[Lots42]

This behaviour, while humorous, at least makes sense. One flick for the kids, one for the parents once the kid's in bed. Not like most of the other behaviours.

Well, yes, it makes sense and it amuses me, at the same time. Like anti-drug PSAs.

You mean "I thought The Little Mermaid WAS a boob flick?"

Ariel -is- much sexier then the blonde holocaust victims in most boobie flicks.

Though I cannot imagine the clamshell bra was any fun.

[depechemodefan]

Though the ariel is 16 years old in the movie...

I just checked the drop in box thirty seconds ago. No new tapes came in because I would have heard it. If you ask me to check the box, I will go back in time to ten minutes before your parents had sex and pull the fire alarm.

Me, I take my sweet time to look again.

You ever have a time when a sc asks you if you have a movie, and you check, and you don't (and they are right there with you as you check on the shelf) so they say, "I'm going to ask her, she helped me the last time,"? If my cw could do the magic where she makes things just appear out of thin air, I think she wouldn't be working here.

That happened to me yesterday. I check the computer, take the dude to the "M"s, looked, told him he can take a look, and he says, "I don't know how to find it." Um, it's in fuckin' alphabetical order, numbnuts. It's in the "m"s and we are checking the "m"s. And he wants the girl who helped him earlier to help him. Oh, and this is after I go to the sorting room to find "Hannibal" that was returned on Sat. Luckily it was on a truck already so I didn't have to look for it long.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

- I just checked the drop in box thirty seconds ago. No new tapes came in because I would have heard it. If you ask me to check the box, I will go back in time to ten minutes before your parents had sex and pull the fire alarm.

(snip)

- We were the only ones open late at night. Mean pot heads would come in for snacks. I have been informed most pot heads are not mean. I have not actually encountered nice pot heads.

An addition to the first one... DO NOT dig through the drop box! DO NOT spread the movies in the drop box out all over the floor. Yes, the newest-everyone-must-see-or-be-laughed-at-movie may be there, but we have a RESERVATION system and THOSE people get that movie FIRST! A lack to plan ahead on your part...

#2: I never had a problem with the pot-heads at night. They'd buy a bag of chips or popcorn, stand and watch the movie for a bit, chat for a while and leave. (Yes, I worked in video store where we could play the movies and not just trailer tapes.).

[Mr Hero]

- Not a suck : It amuses me when a family rents Little Mermaid and Some Movie Filled With Boobies at the same time.

The only thing I would be worried about is if the kids and the adults accidentally watched the wrong movie a la South Park.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

The only thing I would be worried about is if the kids and the adults accidentally watched the wrong movie a la South Park.

Yeah, well, for some parents... "If it's a cartoon, it must be for kids, right?"



That happened with "South Park", it happened with "Bavis and Butthead", it happened with "Heavy Metal" (didn't come out on video until '96, remember?), it happened with "Princess Mononoke"...

Side note: one night a family rented "Batman and Robin" for them and one of the "Batman: The Animated Series" videos for the kids (two episodes on the tape... it may have been the one with Joker). When they returned it the next day, the parents said that the kids loved the real movie and the parents liked the animated show better.

[Lots42]

An addition to the first one... DO NOT dig through the drop box! DO NOT spread the movies in the drop box out all over the floor. Yes, the newest-everyone-must-see-or-be-laughed-at-movie may be there, but we have a RESERVATION system and THOSE people get that movie FIRST! A lack to plan ahead on your part...

The customers had access to the drop-in box? What? I...my brain. Stupid customers! Get the hell away!

The only thing I liked about the drop-in box obession was that the customers did not care the movie was not rewound.

#2: I never had a problem with the pot-heads at night. They'd buy a bag of chips or popcorn, stand and watch the movie for a bit, chat for a while and leave. (Yes, I worked in video store where we could play the movies and not just trailer tapes.).

The local movie shop does this, totally spoiled an awesome movie I was looking forward to seeing. It made me sad.

[Lots42]

Yeah, well, for some parents... "If it's a cartoon, it must be for kids, right?"



That happened with "South Park", it happened with "Bavis and Butthead", it happened with "Heavy Metal" (didn't come out on video until '96, remember?), it happened with "Princess Mononoke"...

I remember Mononoke as no more 'worse' then Aladdin in terms of scary...

I also fondly recall telling my mom's friend that the Brigade comic she wanted to buy for her son was full of people punching out each other's internal organs. She listened. The people at the library did not when I told them about X-Statix. That comic had people being shredded as a common occurence.

[PepperElf]

And lo! The Prince tried on the glass breast on all the hot eligible ladies of the land, and also he tried to make sure other things were the right size.

just as long as the other princesses don't try forcing their breasts to fit the way the Grimm Brothers did it...

[Soulstealer]

just as long as the other princesses don't try forcing their breasts to fit the way the Grimm Brothers did it...

Oh Grimms Brothers is too clean for my version.

[Imogene]

I remember Mononoke as no more 'worse' then Aladdin in terms of scary...

It's a bit creepy seeing it the first time in a theater with surround sound when... Lord Okkoto screams his blood rage right next to San... Holy crap!