Month: January 2003

I rejoined the Columbia House DVD Club. They sent me a flyer in the mail, buy 5 at 49 cents each. Take your first DVD at $14.95 and reduce your committment to just 2 more in the next 2 years. Plus as a bonus take a 7th for just $9.95. I ended up ordering Shrek, Spinal Tap, Sixth Sense, American Beauty, Exorcist, Momento and Woodstock. This means I’ll end up with a total of 41 movies in my collection. Trouble is that I usually watch them once and put them on a shelf. Everytime I say to myself, “Let’s watch a movie.” As I look at each title of all my movies the whole movie is fast forwarded through my mind’s eye and then I have no reason to watch them….

Bonus rant today. Just as I was finishing up my last post, my wife told me we had to go to the store, seems we were plum out of plastic sandwich bags. As we were checking out, our cashier was so busy flirting with the bag boy that see didn’t notice my wife had written the check over so we would have a bit of cash. When Donna said I wrote it for $20, the cashier re-opened the draw and took out a 20. Nope, she corrected, the total check was for 20, so I should get the change. Our cashier tries to use the cash register to figure out how much change we should get back, but it wouldn’t do that because the order was closed.

Now perplexed, our cashier calls for back-up. The new girl shows up and realizes what needs to be done, she gets her pen out and writes 20.00 on the top of the receipt and then puts 14.30 under it and proceeds to subtract – her answer 6.30!?! At this point I say we should get 5.70. Our original cashier says, “Really?” Yes, really. At this point the bag boy pipes in with, “Yeah, 30 plus 70 equals a dollar.” Thanks Einstein. These folks must have studied under the eminent mathematician, Jethro Bodine of Beverly Hills, CA.