Oh, the lengths we go for our entertainment!

7:30pm on thursday night. Dad just left to go to work in east haddam. Ashley and i have just finished cleaning up after dinner.

Now for the past two days Ashley and i decided to do something different after dinner and homework; play some old-fashioned fun games. Like card games, such as; bullshit, golf, and eygption ratscrew. Or battleship. You remember, that game where each player has five ships and you get to put them anywhere you desire on the board. Then you get to take turns guessing where they might be until you sink all of them. Oh, come on, i know you remember!

Anyways, around 8:00, we decided to watch a movie. Now, we have a pretty good sized movie collection but being movie buffs that we are, we have watched them all numerous times, recently. So, we moved on to the forever cherished and much loved disney movie collection. Guess what? The only movie we both could agree on to watch was the only movie we could not find. The classic tale of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. It is lost! And at 8:15 on a school night, we really didn't want to go through the entire house seeing if we could locate it.

I looked out the window and sighed. It had been snowing, raining and sleeting throughout the entire day, not to mention it was kind of cold.

"Hey Ash! Is this movie worth braving the storm and our lives?" I asked, with my car keys in my hand.

"Hell yes! Get your butt moving!" ashley responded with a cute devilish grin as she pushed me out the door.

So there we were, driving in my car with the radio blasting, with the heat cranked up and our seatbelts firmly fastened. With windshield wipers making the millions of tiny rain drops look like giant streaks across my windshield making it impossible to see and headlights that have the lighting ability of a small candle, our 15 minute trip to walmart was a little interesting to say the least.

Within 10 minutes Ashley and I could be seen hurriedly walking out of the walmart store very dissappointed with loss of respect for merchandise held within it. Out of all the movies, including the disney section, poor old Quasimodo and his pals were no where to be found.

Next stop.....Stop and Shop!

Guess what? no luck!

So on to Blockbuster....

By this time, it's about 25 minutes til 9 and we still don't have our movie. Way past frusterated but incredibly silly, we stroll into blockbuster. We comb through the 4 for $20 deals, the previously viewed and the random movie sections. Don't make any mistake, our intention was to buy the darn movie so that it wouldn't matter if we found the old tape or not. However, no such luck. So we searched through the disney collection about four times.

One of the employees witnessed ashley and i frantically looking through every section we came to with exasperated expressions. He took the expressions for confusion. He decided to make a smart ass comment about it too.

"Are you ladies confused?" he asked.

"No" i replied without explaination.

"Hey, if you see some confused ass ladies there ..." he started saying to one of his friends. I tuned him out because damn it, i want my movie. We continued to search and search, and each time we came up empty. Now, ashley had suggested about four times after we searched the same places over and over again that we should ask. But i did not want to ask dick head over there if they had a disney movie! I think i had enough sarcastic comments thrown my way for the night. Besides, i was getting a little angry so if he made another comment i was most likely going to have to pull the "not so nice and cute" nicole out and goodness, no one wants to see that., trust me.

well, we did end up finding one lonely rental copy of the movie. But like i said, we wanted to buy it. It was 8:52 and we were completely worn out. So, we got in line.

Well, jerk off was going to be our cashier, oh fantastic.

"Can i see your blockbuster card?"

"I don't have one."

"Do you have a license or ID?"

"Yes"

"Are you 18?"

"19 actually." (i get to say that now! Yeah!)

"Do you have a credit card?"

"Yes."

"well, you can go over there and fill out the form.."

"i'm not sure if i have it with me."

"well, you're going to need it to fill it out"

"i don't feel like filling it out right now." this conversation was getting annoying. And no, i didn't feel like filling anything out. i just wanted to pay for the damn movie and be on my merry way.


"well you can't rent a movie without one." (what? since when? i always rent movies without a card! obviously, no one knows how to do their job!)

"well my dad has a card."

"are you under his?

"I don't know."

"well, i guess you really don't want to watch your movie, huh?

"what? i went to three stores for this. UGh! ... how long does it take?." i am really pissed and tired at this point.

"about 5 minutes to fill out the form plus another 5.."

"ok, fine."

"Sorry."

"yeah."

so, i went over, found my license, credit card and filled out that DARN FORM!
He put my name into the computer, gave me a shiny blockbuster card and gave us our movie! oh happy dance! Happy, happy dance.

box of hot tamales-1.00
box of mike and ikes-1.00
hershey reeses eggs-2.99
stupid tax-.30
movie rental-4.97
total-10.26

9:30-Watching Hunchback of Notre Dame with plenty of sugar- Priceless

"There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard."