This all happened last night around 7pm at the Blockbuster Video that's right next to my building. Please join me in boycotting Blockbuster. I am going to send this store, and the corporate headquarters a letter, just to see if anything happens.
I went to the blockbuster next door to me last night with my girlfriend Tristan to rent a movie.
We stood in the long line for quite a while. When we got to the front, I asked to open an account. I filled out the form with my permanent address, like it asked.. I figured it had to match the ID and the billing address for the credit card. The manger I handed it to came back over and says, "Um. You got a local address?” in a very ridiculous voice that was not his.
I said, "Yeah, but that's my permanent address, like it asks for."
He said, "W-what? You're giving me a headache - just write your local address on there,” still in his idiotic voice.
So I wrote it in an open space separated by commas. He said when I handed it back to him, "You could have put it in the open lines," and then turned to Tristan and said something like, "You put up with this?"
At this point I was getting slightly peeved.
He shook his head, walked back towards his computer, but came back before he got there and said, "You got a local phone number?"
I replied, "No, that's my cell phone. That's the only number I have."
He again said something to Tristan in that voice and I could not understand all of it, "you really..."
He then said to me, "What the crack number is that?"
I start to say, "920--"
He cut in, "--that ain't no nine. That's a seven or somethin’."
He scoffed and said something to Tristan, then walked away from us and said, “Can’t write neither.”
I threw the movie onto the counter and said, "Know what? Just fuckin' forget it."
I started walking away, Tristan said, "Get your cards."
He didn't want to give them (my drivers license and credit card) back to me, so I had to rip them out of his fingers. Then we walked out.
He crumpled up the application, started laughing, threw it somewhere and started laughing.
So what does a guy have to do to get a little customer service?
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I got 595 lines today. My previous best was 367. Can you beat that?
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