Monday, April 19, 2010
When Stupid People Rent Movies: Talkative Guy
11:12 PM
The video store I work in seems to have some of the most clueless members to EVER hire movies. These are some of their stories
I like to call this particular customer Mr Chatty. He's about mid 20's, unemployed, lives alone, doesn't know many people in the area. His Dad lives about 2 hours drive down south from him, and his brother lives about an hours drive north. I found all this out, when he came in to sign up.... And he was in the store for less then 10 minutes.
In fact I know almost everything about this guy's personal life. Every Wednesday, without fail he shows up to pick out his 6 movies for the week. Apart from getting his food shopping once every 2 weeks or checking in with his WINZ case manager every 3 months, (Work and Income New Zealand, where the unemployed scam money off this great country of mine!). Talking to me seems to be one of the few times he gets proper human contact. So every Wednesday I would put on my biggest grin, and ask how Mr Chatty's week had been, and he'd chat away to me for almost a solid hour.
During these chats I found out he's ALWAYS lived in this area, he could make friends just fine, but eventually they'd change their numbers or just move away. At this point I felt awful for him. This poor bugger had clearly had the worst luck, no job, no real money, no friends. On the bright side he always took my movie suggestions and almost always liked the movies I picked for him.
Now one week I had the flu. It was bad. There was snot and sneezing and flem, the works! So I missed work that week. And missed my weekly meeting with Mr Chatty. By the next week I was feeling much better and waited for his arrival on Wednesday. When he finally came in I smiled and asked how Mr Chatty's week had been.......... And then he started yelling at me. He went on for almost a full 20 minutes about how I was a lazy slut and if I didn't want to talk to him or want him as a customer I should have just said so, and how dare my fat ass not show up to work! Now I get yelled at a lot, I work in a shitty video store in a bad neighborhood. And im cool with that, I can deal with assholes who come in and bitch about their late fees..... But this...... I was SICK and still clearly WAS SICK!!!!! So as Mr Chatty ranted and raved about how I was so pathetic for not telling him face to face that I "didn't want to be his friend" I picked up the phone and quietly started dialing the police, when he realized what I was doing he ran off, I still called the cops and an officer came down to get Mr Chatty's info for future reference
Turns out Mr Chatty had been banned by most stores and malls in the greater West Auckland area, as he had a tendency to become overly attached and emotional with staff members. I understand now why he had such a problem making friends! It's been about 3 months since I last saw Mr Chatty, but I made sure to let all the video stores in my area know what he looks like and the kind of person he is...... "special" to say the least.
I like to call this particular customer Mr Chatty. He's about mid 20's, unemployed, lives alone, doesn't know many people in the area. His Dad lives about 2 hours drive down south from him, and his brother lives about an hours drive north. I found all this out, when he came in to sign up.... And he was in the store for less then 10 minutes.
In fact I know almost everything about this guy's personal life. Every Wednesday, without fail he shows up to pick out his 6 movies for the week. Apart from getting his food shopping once every 2 weeks or checking in with his WINZ case manager every 3 months, (Work and Income New Zealand, where the unemployed scam money off this great country of mine!). Talking to me seems to be one of the few times he gets proper human contact. So every Wednesday I would put on my biggest grin, and ask how Mr Chatty's week had been, and he'd chat away to me for almost a solid hour.
During these chats I found out he's ALWAYS lived in this area, he could make friends just fine, but eventually they'd change their numbers or just move away. At this point I felt awful for him. This poor bugger had clearly had the worst luck, no job, no real money, no friends. On the bright side he always took my movie suggestions and almost always liked the movies I picked for him.
Now one week I had the flu. It was bad. There was snot and sneezing and flem, the works! So I missed work that week. And missed my weekly meeting with Mr Chatty. By the next week I was feeling much better and waited for his arrival on Wednesday. When he finally came in I smiled and asked how Mr Chatty's week had been.......... And then he started yelling at me. He went on for almost a full 20 minutes about how I was a lazy slut and if I didn't want to talk to him or want him as a customer I should have just said so, and how dare my fat ass not show up to work! Now I get yelled at a lot, I work in a shitty video store in a bad neighborhood. And im cool with that, I can deal with assholes who come in and bitch about their late fees..... But this...... I was SICK and still clearly WAS SICK!!!!! So as Mr Chatty ranted and raved about how I was so pathetic for not telling him face to face that I "didn't want to be his friend" I picked up the phone and quietly started dialing the police, when he realized what I was doing he ran off, I still called the cops and an officer came down to get Mr Chatty's info for future reference
Turns out Mr Chatty had been banned by most stores and malls in the greater West Auckland area, as he had a tendency to become overly attached and emotional with staff members. I understand now why he had such a problem making friends! It's been about 3 months since I last saw Mr Chatty, but I made sure to let all the video stores in my area know what he looks like and the kind of person he is...... "special" to say the least.
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
When Stupid People Rent Movies: The Pervy Old Guy
11:04 PM
The video store I work in seems to have some of the most clueless members to EVER hire movies. These are some of their stories
Pervy Old Guy, or POG as I like to call him, has a certain type of movie he ONLY EVER rents. Tween girly movies. Now I know for a fact he lives alone, doesn't have a wife, and has no children or grand-kids, and since he is an only child he doesn't have any nephews or nieces to hire these movies for. I know all this because he's old and likes to chit chat when he rocks into the store. Which normally I wouldn't mind, but he honestly gives me the creeps!
This week he has rented:
High School Musical 1
High School Musical 2
So Little Time Volume 1 (Featuring the Olsen Twins)
Sleepover
All of these movies have underage girls doing god knows what. Maybe he actually likes this kind of film not because of the girls, but because it's what he's into.... but he just gives off this molester vibe.... *shudder* So glad he only comes in fortnightly!
Pervy Old Guy, or POG as I like to call him, has a certain type of movie he ONLY EVER rents. Tween girly movies. Now I know for a fact he lives alone, doesn't have a wife, and has no children or grand-kids, and since he is an only child he doesn't have any nephews or nieces to hire these movies for. I know all this because he's old and likes to chit chat when he rocks into the store. Which normally I wouldn't mind, but he honestly gives me the creeps!
This week he has rented:
High School Musical 1
High School Musical 2
So Little Time Volume 1 (Featuring the Olsen Twins)
Sleepover
All of these movies have underage girls doing god knows what. Maybe he actually likes this kind of film not because of the girls, but because it's what he's into.... but he just gives off this molester vibe.... *shudder* So glad he only comes in fortnightly!
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- Grace C
- I love movies, and for over 5 years I worked at a video store somewhere in the depths of Auckland so I could be close to my precious movies & rent those bitches for free! However, I have since moved on. But even after moving on from the store I still have a load of video store stories of crazy customers and random happenings to talk about!!