After attending the Tennessee basketball game, I spent a long Saturday night at MoFoS. JTH, TJK and I had planned to eat at 11 pm when their shift ended and I just did not want to go home in between the game and dropping MPW off at Best Buy.
The store was slammed as it was the Saturday before Christmas. When I arrived De La Rosa was there. Yes, he was watching a movie with the staff. We had an interesting De La Rosa experience on this day. He purchased copies of Bio-dome, Son of Godzilla, and Troy/Troll 2. The purchase of horrible movies is not the least bit abnormal. (Note: RCC, I thought about you when he picked up Troll 2.) Shortly after making his purchase, the 36-year old returned to the store claiming his mother objected to his choices and wanted a refund. This is against store policy but in our minds, the rules do not apply to the great De La Rosa. We refunded the money. Later in the night we got a call. It was De La Rosa asking us to remove those DVDs from the shelf and to hold them for him. Naturally, we complied.
The best MoFoS story occurred before I arrived. A woman came in and asked to cash out rolls of quarters and dimes. NHH complied. When he unrolled the “coins”, he found washers. She got away with $35 virtually free. We did not let the washers go to waste. I put them in a fan and watched them fly later. Maybe that is why many businesses do not make change.
In other MoFoS news, JTH outsold TJK eleven to nine in Redline copies. They were actually sold to the same woman! Yes, one woman bought twenty copies of Redline. A lot of people are going to have a lousy stocking stuffer this Christmas.
With both the owner and manager out of town we felt the need to produce more shenanigans than normal. This would prove to be very difficult given the company. There was a great of destruction on this night. The most notable tirade came when JTH got angry that TJK sold one of “his” movies. He swears that he requested a copy of a particular DVD before a customer asked and TJK sold it from under the counter. This sent JTH into a rage involving a baseball bat being swung everywhere.
What recently released DVD was JTH upset about? No, not The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Not The Dark Knight either. It was the critically acclaimed and commercially successful...The House Bunny!
In other MoFoS news, when we were closing the store we discovered that the money was amiss due to a gift card purchase. This would be more acceptable if MoFoS actually sold gift cards.
Naturally, we ate at Applebees afterwards. JDM joined us. We watched the replay of the game I attended earlier. I was amazed at how many plays I remembered. Amy was our server and our service was atrocious as usual but the food was good. It was a good way to end the day.
Finally, Saturday was SLOW’s birthday. Happy birthday, Sandy! I miss you.
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