End of an Era…Again
Posted on August 26, 2004
Today was my last day at the video store, which will cease to exist on Friday. It was especially boring today because my manager left 4 hours early to get his GRE results. Work all day alone? Why not? The problem was that I really was alone, not even any customers to keep me company. I spun around in my chair (thats right, I took the chair out of the office so I wouldn’t have to stand all day like normal) for most of the day, but I got a parting shot from the fiends of the world when a guy bought 3 dvds and 2 tapes for $67. He might as well though, all that stuff is getting flushed down the toilet in a few days. Then a group of 4 black guys who only spoke French came in and wanted to rent a copy of Winning Eleven 7, but of course they didn’t have a membership. He started to fill out a membership application (despite the fact that it will be useless in 2 days) but he stopped when he realized that I knew where they actually SOLD the game, not just rented it. I gave them directions to EB and my prayers were answered when they didn’t come back before I left for the day/ever. I scored a screener copy of 50 First Dates and The Human Stain today, which are not that exciting but I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. Anyone want them? I did finally get that huge poster for Naqoyqatsi that was nonsensically in the porn room, despite the fact that we didn’t carry the movie. Justin came in for my last 5 minutes of work, and also for a great big rant from Big Al. I’m glad someone else got to see that before the place “blew up”. You know, we had a lot of fun at that store’s expense, but its important to remember, independent video stores make the world go ’round. That is, if your world is a porn fueled runaway roller coaster to the darkest part of the human psyche. 
Mike
On February 17, 2006 at 14:12
I put the naqoyqatsi poster there because it didn”t matter what we had up there as long as the owner George saw that a poster was up. They were a bitch to put in. I had my hand snapped on those clasps many times.