jackson13
09-13-2007, 09:30 PM
I go and meet a guy like I did tonight. Wow.
I'm at work tonight and all of a sudden I hear someone over by the DVD's causing a commotion. I look over and just see some guy and his wife looking at videos, so I think nothing of it. I keep doing what I'm doing, when all of a sudden just BOOM! he's in my face slapping the DVD of Borat on the counter. I take a step back and give him a look like 'what the hell' and he says 'YOU GUYS GOT BOOTLEGGED!' and I said 'What?' just because he caught me so off guard and he said 'You guys got bootlegged, someone ripped off this DVD' in a much lower, library appropriate voice. I said 'what are you talking about' and he holds the DVD up in front of my face and says 'Nothing on the cover is in English and the inside isnt a DVD but a burned Demorex DVD! They didnt even spell Borat right, the R is backwards!"
At this point it dawns at me that this may be some type of joke, so I ask him '....are....you serious?" and he says 'YEAH! Look at it!" and I said 'I see it just fine.' So then I had to explain to him that Borat is a joke movie, and that they made the cover and DVD itself to look like it was a bootleg. There is no such brand as Demorex and yes, they mispelled Borat, they did it on purpose. I said 'we have multiple copies and they are all like that. Its ok." and he says something like 'oh, alright.' and walks away defeated that he didnt find some security type issue that we could act upon.
Cut to 5 minutes later, he and his wife are back at the counter and are having an argument that goes something like this:
Wife: "Im not paying for your stupid movie, you pay for it."
Husband: "It's 50 cents, I want to see it."
Wife: "Well I'm not paying for it. You can pay for your own stupid movie."
I notice then that they are arguing over Borat, once again. The guy wants to rent it, the wife doesnt. I ask whats wrong and the wife says 'It's not in english.' I stare at her for a few seconds, realizing that after causing a scene with me about the DVD, the guy apparently didnt tell his wife what I told him about it. I told her 'Its in English. It was #1 for 2 weeks when it came out in the theaters. There are some parts where he talks in his fake native language but there are subtitles." She replies, as soon as I'm done talking, "But I've seen this cover in english! This is in some foreign jargon!" And I, once again, explain to a member of this family, that the cover of the DVD is a joke. She says to her husband again "I'm not paying for it.', so he whips out the .50 and gets it and they leave, leaving me standing there laughing at their stupidity.
Worst of all, the wife was carrying a newborn child the entire time which means, while these people are unable to comprehend DVD packaging, they apparently know how to commit the act of sex because they have spawned a child into this world.
I'm at work tonight and all of a sudden I hear someone over by the DVD's causing a commotion. I look over and just see some guy and his wife looking at videos, so I think nothing of it. I keep doing what I'm doing, when all of a sudden just BOOM! he's in my face slapping the DVD of Borat on the counter. I take a step back and give him a look like 'what the hell' and he says 'YOU GUYS GOT BOOTLEGGED!' and I said 'What?' just because he caught me so off guard and he said 'You guys got bootlegged, someone ripped off this DVD' in a much lower, library appropriate voice. I said 'what are you talking about' and he holds the DVD up in front of my face and says 'Nothing on the cover is in English and the inside isnt a DVD but a burned Demorex DVD! They didnt even spell Borat right, the R is backwards!"
At this point it dawns at me that this may be some type of joke, so I ask him '....are....you serious?" and he says 'YEAH! Look at it!" and I said 'I see it just fine.' So then I had to explain to him that Borat is a joke movie, and that they made the cover and DVD itself to look like it was a bootleg. There is no such brand as Demorex and yes, they mispelled Borat, they did it on purpose. I said 'we have multiple copies and they are all like that. Its ok." and he says something like 'oh, alright.' and walks away defeated that he didnt find some security type issue that we could act upon.
Cut to 5 minutes later, he and his wife are back at the counter and are having an argument that goes something like this:
Wife: "Im not paying for your stupid movie, you pay for it."
Husband: "It's 50 cents, I want to see it."
Wife: "Well I'm not paying for it. You can pay for your own stupid movie."
I notice then that they are arguing over Borat, once again. The guy wants to rent it, the wife doesnt. I ask whats wrong and the wife says 'It's not in english.' I stare at her for a few seconds, realizing that after causing a scene with me about the DVD, the guy apparently didnt tell his wife what I told him about it. I told her 'Its in English. It was #1 for 2 weeks when it came out in the theaters. There are some parts where he talks in his fake native language but there are subtitles." She replies, as soon as I'm done talking, "But I've seen this cover in english! This is in some foreign jargon!" And I, once again, explain to a member of this family, that the cover of the DVD is a joke. She says to her husband again "I'm not paying for it.', so he whips out the .50 and gets it and they leave, leaving me standing there laughing at their stupidity.
Worst of all, the wife was carrying a newborn child the entire time which means, while these people are unable to comprehend DVD packaging, they apparently know how to commit the act of sex because they have spawned a child into this world.