This is a rant about a pet peeve of mine. I was at the video store recently and every single time I go, it always annoys me how they have to read out your movie choices out loud. I mean, come on - what if I didn't want everyone in the line behind me to know that I was renting 17 Again??! (It was pretty good, actually. haha) I feel like they're judging me, and of course they are, because if I were in their shoes, I'd be judging people too! ;)
A friend of mine used to manage a well-known video store chain and let me in on some of the happenings behind the scenes. First off, I must be blind or something because I never knew until she told me that every video store has a porn room. Wtf?! How could I not know that? And of course, said porn room has the door shut and have to be over 18 or whatever age it is to go in there. The funny part is that there's a video camera in the room, so the employees can watch and make sure that no one's wanking off in there. hehe. And yeah, some pervs totally do that. Something even more gross - the worst task to have is to have to go in the porn room to wipe, clean, and sterilize the products from... uh... "stuff" that might have... um... gotten it dirty. Yeah, you know what I'm saying! Gross, huh??!
So back to my point, when you're checking out the movies at the counter, they're required to read out the titles you're renting. And my friend said that they all had to learn to read out the porn titles without laughing or making faces. They had to use the same tone as for everything else. But still, even though I'm not renting anything pervy, I still don't like it when they read it out loud. Again, not major, but a pet peeve nonetheless.
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