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forumwhore 
Fear Me, I Am Change.
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Joined: Dec. 2001
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Posted on: Jul. 25 2002,01:28 |
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(deep breath) This was the past hour/twenty of my life.
I will try to leave out adjectives that are pejorative.
I love the new DVD player. I am amazed at the quality, especially on a big glass tube TV. I am a photographer, I can see the difference easily.
I drive far too much, so I decide to walk to the Video Hut past the freeway. I find Black Hawk Down and get Beautiful Mind since everyone tells me I'm crazy. I walk to the front. Thru the plexiglas the woman beckons her little daughter; the mom doesn't speak English.
Daughter says we need ID and a bill. A bill? Like mail? "yes"
Um, I just walked a half mile and it's 90 (32c) out and I don't have any mail. I have a perfect drivers license, with address only 6 city blocks away on the same street, (looks like me), I have 5 credit cards, a car insurance card with address AND I have 5 (five) photo-business cards with the same address. These are five different cards not computer-printed. I'm sorry this is all I have on me, and you won't run my credit card without a bill.
A perfect case of triumph of rules, over intelligence.
Long story short I walk back under the freeway and go straight to my car at home. I drive to Planet Hollywood. It's empty. I go straight to the (older) girl and I ask her to run my name in the computer. ( This place is a lot richer, in a better hood)
I say, "please check my last name, break, b r e a k."
I can hear her thru the glass saying "b r a k e"
"no it's the other one"
"what other one?"
"like broken, b r e a k"
I hear, "b r a k e n"
"It's b r e a k"
"b r a k e"
I am not making this up.
The look of intensity I give her wordlessly brings the manager over. I have stopped speaking and just stare at her.
I'm sure they must get all sorts of troublesome people there, so he takes in a deep breath and asks to see my ID. I give it to him, he types in "break", and says my account is in good standing. "Thankyou, Sir" and I still won't look at the girl again. She was even cute. Too bad.
I'm home now, rather incensed, and I am going to watch those movies. Several times, even.
I go through this shit my whole life and it will never stop.
b r e a k, thanks.
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Posting from; El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula
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Jynx
resident n0b0dy
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Joined: Dec. 2000
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Posted on: Jul. 25 2002,01:45 |
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rofl
I get the similar situation with my last name....and no, i'm not giving it out.
I know it doesn't matter, but still....
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Wiley
©0®ÞØ®4+3 whØ®3
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Posted on: Jul. 25 2002,02:04 |
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My father (Carl Blake) is always in Japan.
When I call him at his hotel I ask for Car Brake ...no kidding.
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Darth Liberus
Emperor of Detnet
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Joined: Jan. 1970
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Posted on: Jul. 25 2002,03:14 |
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lol
my last name is Suite... you can imagine all the trouble that causes. People always spell it "sweet" and pronounce it "suit" =P
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"let's travel around with our laptops, plug in, and destroy the very fabric of modern reality." -a2n3d7y
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