A random story
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cosmolinguistYesterday when we were talking about renting a movie, I was telling Katie about why I no longer like one of the two places in Morris at which one can rent movies (well, not counting the library, where we actually got ours; as Katie said, we're poor college kids).
Last week, when Seth, Sarah, Matthew and I decided we wanted to see Zoolander again, I was the one who actually ran in to get it. I gave the lady my money and card and when she scanned the card she let out this horrible laugh and said I had a late fee amounting to twenty dollars and some cents. I couldn't believe it. I don't know if I've ever brought a movie back late--it's one of the few things I'm anal-retentive about, actually--and there's no way anything extreme enough to cause a $20 fee would escape my attention. I asked her what movie it had been and when she told me it suddenly made perfect sense. I left in angry silence, not having the money to give her even if I'd wanted to, and there wasn't anything else to be done. At the car, I explained to Seth that he'd have to get the movie since I couldn't. As he was doing that I told Matthew what had happened. (It wasn't really the twenty dollars that bothered me, it was the lack of respect with which I'd been treated by someone who thinks she's my friend ... and this wasn't the first instance. It's hard for me to even think charitably about her any more.)
At first Matthew said that since it was twenty dollars or more I was entitled to a jury trial, the Constitution said so. ("Well, that probably made more sense when the Constitution was written," I said, "as twenty dollars was worth a bit more then." "Doesn't matter, that's still what it says!" he replied. I smiled.) But when I told him Jenn had rented that movie with my card and without my consent he got more excited. "That's identity theft! That's a felony!" I had to laugh at that. Seth returned with the movie, and we went home to watch it. By the time we got there I felt better, having been regaled with tales of what could happen to Jenn for this.
Matthew does things like this sometimes that cheer me up. I don't think that's his intended purpose--it's just how his brain works and he likes to amuse himself--but when it happens to amuse me too, especially when I'm in a bad mood, it reminds me of how much I like him.
Last week, when Seth, Sarah, Matthew and I decided we wanted to see Zoolander again, I was the one who actually ran in to get it. I gave the lady my money and card and when she scanned the card she let out this horrible laugh and said I had a late fee amounting to twenty dollars and some cents. I couldn't believe it. I don't know if I've ever brought a movie back late--it's one of the few things I'm anal-retentive about, actually--and there's no way anything extreme enough to cause a $20 fee would escape my attention. I asked her what movie it had been and when she told me it suddenly made perfect sense. I left in angry silence, not having the money to give her even if I'd wanted to, and there wasn't anything else to be done. At the car, I explained to Seth that he'd have to get the movie since I couldn't. As he was doing that I told Matthew what had happened. (It wasn't really the twenty dollars that bothered me, it was the lack of respect with which I'd been treated by someone who thinks she's my friend ... and this wasn't the first instance. It's hard for me to even think charitably about her any more.)
At first Matthew said that since it was twenty dollars or more I was entitled to a jury trial, the Constitution said so. ("Well, that probably made more sense when the Constitution was written," I said, "as twenty dollars was worth a bit more then." "Doesn't matter, that's still what it says!" he replied. I smiled.) But when I told him Jenn had rented that movie with my card and without my consent he got more excited. "That's identity theft! That's a felony!" I had to laugh at that. Seth returned with the movie, and we went home to watch it. By the time we got there I felt better, having been regaled with tales of what could happen to Jenn for this.
Matthew does things like this sometimes that cheer me up. I don't think that's his intended purpose--it's just how his brain works and he likes to amuse himself--but when it happens to amuse me too, especially when I'm in a bad mood, it reminds me of how much I like him.
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Date: 2003-07-23 01:03 pm (UTC)Heh, that's funny. We discussed the whole >$20 == jurry trial thing in my business law class last semester. It was suggested as a way of getting out of speeding tickets, as no court in its right mind would spend so much money on the costs involved in summoning a jurry, etc. I wonder if that would actually work? How unfortunate that I'll never be able to test it out myself . . . then again? ;)
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Date: 2003-07-23 01:25 pm (UTC)Can't think of anything else to say... oh well.
Re: Hello
Date: 2003-07-23 02:46 pm (UTC)And if you wnat to add something as a memory, just click on the heart you see in the row of icons at the top of every entry, and from there you can name it, put it in a category, whatever you want.