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Blockbuster Rant

I had to rent a particular movie yesterday for a project I'm working on, so I went to my friendly neighborhood blockbuster. I've always wondered what kind of jobs were available to heavily tattoed and pierced people with black fingernails other than the obvious jobs: convenient stores, tattoo parlors, roadcrews (no offense to people with excessive tattoes - I'm just calling it like I see it) - anyway, there are some pretty scary people working at the blockbuster. But that's not my complaint...
Why must I pay nearly 5 bucks for a 5 year old movie? I know, I know: I get to keep it for a week. I don't want it for a week!! I'd like to have the choice of paying less money and keeping it for a shorter time. I can't think of many circumstances where I'd need to rent a video for a week. If I liked it that much, I'd just buy it (which, if I was going to rent it more than twice, I'd be better off just buying it anyway).
You may say I should just go to a different video store, but my only other options are the Movie Gallery inside Walmart and that would require going into Walmart - twice - once to rent it, once to return it. Plus they only have about 12 movies to chose from. There's also National Video, but I don't have an account there and whenever I think about renting a movie, I don't want to spend the time to get an account. I guess I'm lazy...but I still hate blockbuster.