# The Professor at Blockbuster

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-professor-at-blockbuster/174031>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 9, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-professor-at-blockbuster/174031 "2003-05-09T02:28:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-professor-at-blockbuster/174031/41 "2003-05-10T00:40:00Z")

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Nah, Hastings is just as bad as Blockbuster. I never ever go to either one, just Hollywood Video or the local rental place Alphaville (if I want something foreign).

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**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-professor-at-blockbuster/174031/42 "2003-05-10T07:22:30Z")

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OOh, I get to share my Blockbuster anecdote of the day.

So I went today, and rented 2 movies, and bought “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” from the Previously viewed movies section. It was marked $4.99. So I go to pay, and the countergirl tells me I have a $9.00 balance. Not surprising. I never get out of there without a late fee of some sort. I agree to pay, even though I didn’t remember renting the movie she quoted. She rings in the $4.99 movie. Looking at the computer, she starts off on a rant about how they’re trying to overcharge me, almost $10! She manually credits me for the difference. Cool, I think. So she totals everything up, and it comes to $13. I realize what she’d done, but was waiting to see if she would.

She rips the receipt off the printer, tells me to have a good day, and as she hands me my bag, a wave of common sense hits her…she’d taken off my late fee. They weren’t overcharging me…she was looking at the subtotal value rather than the item value. I tried to pay anyways, because I’m a fair person, but she insisted that I was all set.

Yeah baby. I got the hookup at Blockbuster.

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**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-professor-at-blockbuster/174031/43 "2003-05-10T07:45:42Z")

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Reminds me very much of the writing of John Kennedy Toole. Twas a comical story, btw.

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