Lacking Understanding Or Knowledge
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
When I arrived at the video store the other day, I found two bags of M&Ms that had been there all week unopened. Such a crime. The bags of chocolate goodness were with a VHS tape that was broken. Upon inquiring, I discovered that a customer had returned the tape with the M&Ms, but no one knew the offender and so hadn’t opened the bags. I did.
After having a few of the peanut-covered yummies, the person who had donated them coincidentally came into the store. She is a good customer and known to those of us who have been there for a while, but the newbies may not since she doesn’t rent often anymore. Offended that no one had eaten her gift, she proceeded to tell me the story of the broken tape.
She had placed the movie on a laundry bag on top of her car for a trip to the laundromat. What she didn’t notice was the rental had fallen off the car while she was loading other things into her vehicle. As she began to back out, she felt a bump as the tape was crushed beneath her tire. Thinking that was strange, she pulled a classic Eddie Murphy joke: she pulled forward to see what she had run over and promptly crushed the tape again. The movie she had damaged beyond all repair?
Listening to: Gold Into Straw - Brendan Benson
July 26th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
Hey! Before running over the tape again, I bet she ‘totally paused’!!
AS IF!!
July 26th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
Oh, great. A drive-by punning.
July 26th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
Thank you. I’ll be here all week. Tip your waitresses!
July 26th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Damn. Nothing I can say would top that. Brava Hotdrwife, Brava!
July 26th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
This is why I love this blog. The readers trying to out funny each other!
July 26th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
Nope. I like totally got nothing to out wit HDW.
July 26th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Well, it was a good one. :)
July 26th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
If she had just done the bend and snap first, she would have found the video before getting in the car! ;)
July 27th, 2006 at 7:56 am
An example of the ‘cosmic joker’ at work, me thinks. So many things happen to people that are screamingly funny and seem to have built-in clues that someone ‘up there’ is having a laugh at our expense! x
July 27th, 2006 at 7:56 am
Holy crap. Where did that Legally Blonde reference come from? Plus she does have the boobs for it. :)
July 27th, 2006 at 8:05 am
Andy: Yeah, she’s not dumb and very involved with the community, it was just a moment she had. :)
July 27th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Well, it was late and I for some reason was thinking Resse was in Clueless, but now I see the error of my ways as it was Silverstone… Oh well, it could of been funny :)