Just one of those days...

[Deadpool]

I'm not going to tell you one of the places I worked at, let's just say it rhymes with....MockMuster......but in my two years of working there, I can almost write a book full of all the stories involving SC's that ventured in and out to rent movies and video games.

Just one example to whett your appetite:

It was a Friday morning, and I opened up with the AM and one other co-worker. About maybe 20 minutes after we opened, in breezed an obviously agitated woman. Just from the way she walked in, huffing and puffing and muttering to herself, my co-worker and I could tell she was going to be a problem. After several "please just let her leave" moments between us, the woman finally walked over to the counter...

Me: Me/ SC: Sucky Customer/ MC: My co-worker

Me: Hi, do you need help with looking for a particular movie Miss?

SC: Yeah, do you have "insert crappy kids movie here"?

Me: Hang on I'll check in the computer Miss...

SC: (5 second drawn out annoyed sigh) Hurry up....

(Oh yeah, this was not going to end well.....I check for said movie, we don't have it, but another store in the area does)

Me: I'm sorry Ma'am, but we don't carry that movie...

SC: (Under her breath) You've got to be f*#@*king kidding me....

Me: (Blink, blink) ....but one of our other locations has it....

SC: (Agitated) Which location?!?

I tell her said location...

SC: (Agitated sigh, shaking her head several times) I don't have time to go there....I live near *this* location....can't you have them send the movie here?!?

MC: I don't think this company can do that....

SC: (Now in full blown beeotch mode) Well have you ever *tried* to? Maybe if you just make a simple phone call you can find out, right?

MC: ....There's no need to have an attitude with me Ma'am....

At this point, you would think WWIII broke out, as this woman begins to shout loud enough about how her "F'ING SON KEEPS F'ING BEGGING ME FOR THIS F'ING MOVIE, SO I NEED IT RIGHT THE F NOW!" loud enough to draw my startled Assistant Manager out to the front.

AM: Is....Is everything allright ma'am?

SC: NO, EVERYTHING IS *NOT* OK! I NEED THIS F'ING MOVIE RIGHT NOW, AND THESE TWO STUPID F'S CAN'T JUST GET IT TO ME FROM ANOTHER STORE!

AM: Ma'am, if you curse at my employees again, I'm gonna have to ask you to leave....

SC: YOU DON'T HAVE TO ASK ME TO LEAVE, CAUSE I'M LEAVING NOW! I HOPE THIS F'ING PLACE CLOSES DOWN! MOTHER F'ERS!

And with that, Bitchzilla stomps out, leaving me, my AM, and my co-worker in a stunned silence for 10 seconds. The kicker? And what got me and my AM to finally laugh? My co-worker finally just quipped: "Why would her son even *want* that movie? It sucks anyway...."

[EricKei]

Classic. F@%&IN A!

And to !

[BookstoreEscapee]

Did she expect someone from the other store to just run it right on over? Even if you could have it transferred, she'd still have to wait.

[depechemodefan]

Maybe the bitch should have told the kid there are starving kids who only get to see a movie when they turn 20, if they live that long, so he should be glad he gets to see that movie sometime soon.

Or maybe she should just tell him get a job and he can buy the movie himself.

I don't know.

[Deadpool]

Another story, albeit a quicker one:

Working the late shift one night....literally 20 minutes before we're closing, and two drunken college dudes come stumbling into the store. Again, the pleas of "please let them leave" to myself are unanswered, and they come stumbling over to my register.

Me: Me/ DSC1: Drunk Sucky Customer 1/ DCS 2: Drunk Sucky Customer 2

Me: ....Can I help you guys?

DSC1: (Slurring his words biiiiiig time) Yeah....do you have the movie....do you have.....hehe.... (drunken laugh) I can't do it man....

DSC2: Don't be a p****sy man! Just ask!

DSC1: Ok, Ok.... (drunken laugh) Do you guys sell like, porn movies?

Me: (Blink) Erm, no....we don't sell porn movies here....

DSC2: Aw, come on dude....I bet you have some in the back somewhere....

DSC1: Yeah, I bet you like to pull your pud to them right?

DSC 1 and 2 laugh and high five at their brilliant bon mont as I do a mental facepalm.

Me: Uuuuuuh, yeah.....but no, we don't sell porn movies here...

The two Mensa members proceed to ask me about 10 more times if we sell porn movies, with my patience whittling away little by little with each response from me....finally, I just snapped.

Me: Guys, seriously, what freaking part of "We don't sell porn movies" don't you understand? We......don't....sell....porn.....movies.....here!

DSC2: Woooooow, bro, no need to get all harsh....

DSC1: I think like, he needs to get laid or something, maybe then he'd mellow out.... (Drunken laugh)

Our store manager, who must have been watching from the shadows, finally comes over and asks the two guys, as politely as possible, to just leave, which they did after some more drunken laughing. Oy....

[El Pollo Guerrera]

1) Welcome to the forum. Do you post at another forum under the same name?

2) Be glad that you didn't have a porn section... Lots of theft, idiot questions ("Have you seen THIS one? Hur hur hur..."), embarassing late calls (I remember one woman flipping out on the phone when she found out her husband was renting porn... it turned out he wasn't watching them with her, if you know what I mean...), and one time I walked in on a guy... well, I walked into the porn room on a guy and I'll leave it at that.

[Plaidman]

I share your thread title. I don't know how much longer I can keep my own sanity.

Two: Yeah. So she has no time to go to said store, but has time to ether A: Get them to come over with said movie, or B: Wait for that movie to get there, which would take a minimal of two-three days.

Three: I remember when I was a kid I'd sneak into the adult sections of my local videoland, and private owned video store. The owner of second one caught me, and just kinda laughed and shooed me out. Movie rentals were a BUCK for five days. Same with video game rentals. I once rented Final Fantasy 2 so many times, she sold it to me for ten bucks. Same With FF3. (For SNES). She sold me FF1 for nes for five bucks. I was in kid heaven. It was the days I was first learning of RPGs.

Back when I knew happiness.

Though lately i've been finding some with a girl I know.

[Deadpool]

1) Welcome to the forum. Do you post at another forum under the same name?

No Sir, the few forums I'm a member of I post under different names.

[BlaqueKatt]

2) Be glad that you didn't have a porn section... Lots of theft, idiot questions ("Have you seen THIS one? Hur hur hur...")

ugh-yeah we had that-though the only theft we had were of the "not quite porn" variety-mainly the "red shoe diaries" for some odd reason....but for the idiot questions-like "is this any good?" I directed them to "J"-he ordered all of it and watched them all when they were received-he loved dealing with those guys(and it was always guys...)

my main gripe was the "binders"-see we were a "family store" soo all the adult movies were in plain black cases on the shelf....we kept the flattened boxes in a binder behind the counter....we dreaded the customer that would ask for the "binder"(dun dun DUUUNNN)-mainly due to the fact of them standing about 6 inches to our left flipping through it on the counter...please I'm working here...take the binder with you...I don't mind really...no really go over there...the 8 year-old holding the care bears movie does not need to be seeing the cover for Debbie Does Dishes....(yes that is a real movie...don't ask). And of course other than "J" the guys at the store made the two female employees reshelve the adult movies because they were "too embarassed"....so if the store was dead(it usually was) we took great joy in announcing the titles we were reshelving...

[El Pollo Guerrera]

...the 8 year-old holding the care bears movie does not need to be seeing the cover for Debbie Does Dishes....(yes that is a real movie...don't ask).

Mmmmm... Nina Hartley...

*coughcoughIsaidnothingcoughcough*

As for the binder, I don't know if I'd be more worried if a guy stood there looking at the pictures, or if the guy wandered away with the binder to... Yeah, moving along.

Oh, and adult movie titles: a former co-worker and I had a game where we'd make up the adult version of the regular movie titles. When THIS came out, we laughed for days. Too easy.

[mikoyan29]

Um, isn't the Blockbuster the company that would rent sanitized copies of movies at one point? If so, why the hell would they have porn?

[Plaidman]

Um, isn't the Blockbuster the company that would rent sanitized copies of movies at one point? If so, why the hell would they have porn?

I don't think any of them do NOW, they did way back then. I was like, 8 or so when I last saw it. So 16 years ago?