A woman in her late 30s
comes into the store one evening. She is a semi-regular customer and
had not been to the store in a few months. Fernando greets her and
she greets him back. Hell, she even goes beyond the bare minimum of
social nicety to ask Fernando how he has been since she last saw him.
"I'm well. Keeping
on keeping on, doing the best that I can," he answers.
"Yourself?"
"I'm good. My
daughter is having a slumber party tonight, so a bunch of her friends
are over and they wanted me to pick out some movies for her. Do you
have We're the Millers in?"
"Yeah, that's right
over here," Fernando tells her, exiting the office to pluck one
of the tags from the case. The front reads EXTENDED CUT in big yellow
letters, and the woman notices this fact and is likely savvy enough
to realize what it entails. She picks up the case and reads the back.
Her expression sours and her eyes narrow as she scans the great large
box on the back side which has the laundry list of reasons the movie
is rated R.
"This is unrated?"
she asks him with a slight frown.
"Profoundly so,
yes," Fernando tells her. "It out-Hangovers The
Hangover."
"Is it just raunchy
humor?"
"That, and I feel
like I would be remiss not to warn you about the spider bite scene."
"Why, what's so bad
about it? It doesn't sound so bad."
"Well, the bite is
on a penis."
Her expression wavers
between confusion and bemusement. "That still doesn't sound--"
"They show the
penis."
The woman stares at
Fernando, blinks a few times, then quietly places the case back on
the rack. "Let's not get that one, then. Probably not a good
idea for twelve-year old girls to be seeing that."
"Probably not."
She scans the rack with a
frustrated sigh. "There aren't any other good comedies in right
now, either." She taps the case for Grown Ups 2 irately,
for all copies of that film were leased out at that moment.
Fernando shrugs. "I
can recommend Monsters University."
"Why, is it funny?"
"It has its moments.
Mainly it's because it's a good movie. Great movie, in fact. Not
quite as good as Monsters, Inc. but by no means does
this render it low-quality. I'm old so I'm not allowed to like new
things as much as their earlier iterations. It's a nine instead of a
ten, is all."
"That sounds really
good actually. I'll take it."
And that's how it's done.
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