When I was in law school, my guy friend gave me a porno because I had not seen one. He wanted to show me that they weren’t all filled with bad music from the 70’s and mullet haircuts. So I’ve had this tape for about 2 years now - without a label on it, sitting in my drawer full of tapes.
My girlfriend came to visit me and we rented a bunch of movies - including Chocolat. After she left, I decided to clean the hell out of my apartment because now she has a key (heh…). So I started with going through the tape drawer. I found the porno and laughed…ha ha. Then got some phone calls, got distracted. Then I remembered that I had to return those movies. So I jumped up and grabbed the tape out of the VCR because Chocolat was the last thing I remembered actually watching.
I got home and about two hours later, looked at my televison and noticed a tape with a Hollywood Video label on it. Then it hit me - I had just returned a porno to the store. I almost died. I called up the store to explain and they could not stop laughing at me. The guy said, “Is this a home video??” Gimme a break, buddy. Sooooo, I went in the next day and shamefully put down the Chocolat tape. There were three guys there and they all just laughed. I was blood red. One guy handed me back the porno and said, “I rewound it for you!”
Has anyone ever done anything like this??? Sheesh.
I bet this making my girlfriend think twice about shooting any home movies.
There was an anchorman (or anchorman wannabe) in town a few years back who threw out a tape that the garbage collector scavenged - apparently, it was himself and another woman. He was begging to be spanked and was spanking her. The tape was distributed all over Sprinfield. On the up side (for the guy), apparently his penis was huge.
When I was in high school I worked at headquarters for a video store chain. One day I see a wave of men rushing to the damaged tapes area (which had VCR’s and TV’s hooked up so allegedly damaged tapes could be viewed). It turns out that somebody had returned “Wet Shots, Vol. III” instead of the tape he rented and the video was being shown. Free viewing, but no popcorn.
Thats a classic…made all the more entertaining when I recalled Tibs’ gender and proclivities. What was the title of the offending video? How long do you think it took the video store guy to come up with the “Rewound it for you.” line?
I did this once (returned a porn tape once). Fortunately the title was fairly innocuous so picking it up wasn’t too embarrassing. The store didn’t even charge me the late fee.
My sister worked for a video store when she was in high school, and she said that people “returned” home videos and other videos they owned all the time. That’s one of the reasons that they check inside all of the boxes when they check them in. (People also often put the wrong rental videos in the wrong boxes–if you found The Lion King in a Ferris Bueller’s Day Off box, chances are you’d find a Ferris Bueller’s Day Off video in a * Lion King * box.) If the video didn’t belong to the video store, she’d just find out who had rented that box and give them a call.
She never mentioned anyone ever accidentally returning one of their own porn tapes. People did return porn there all the time, though, because the store rented it. Maybe that just made it much, much less of a big deal.
Except they didn’t return theirs… they just thought they did. Renton stole it and replaced it with “100 Greatest Goals”… a soccer video that makes for quite a funny scene later on when we see Renton post-coitus and hear:
“What a penetrating goal that was!!”
I love that movie.
Tiburon… if it makes you feel any better… I’m laughing my butt off at you.
Something similar happened to me a few years ago at college. This is what took place, I was transferring e-mails from my school account to my web account, and some accounts only allow a max of 2MB. The e-mails I had stored was well over that. Anyway, I sent all the e-mails to that account, my web account could not handle it, and returned all the mail to me. Well, not only did it return it to me, but to the rest of my class and my professors. Yes, that doesn’t seem too terrible, the only problem was, my professor then forwards an e-mail she received with my name on it. In the e-mail she says,
" You might want to keep the naughty things you do with your significant other a secret. Have fun. Professor Lewis".
I dunno about porn specifically, but I do know that people return the wrong tapes all the time.
I was in blockbuster once and a clerk was boxing up what looked to be their regular shipment of misdirected tapes to Hollywood video and other Blockbuster locations around town.
