Customer of the Night 1 and 2:

For those of you who don't know, I work at a blockbuster, and for every customer I have that's a wonderful person that I always enjoy having in the store, there's one that just amazes me in their sheer stupidity or in the amount of frustration they cause.

Tonight, I came to the realization that instead of making a seperate thread EVERY single time I have a bad customer, I should create this "THE CUSTOMER OF THE NIGHT THREAD", and discuss the one customer who, above all else, stands out above the rest.

I'd like to stress that about 99.9% of my customers are genuinely fine people. Some of the people that are going to be in this thread are probably wonderful people, but the experience of having them in the store was infinitely memorable.

We'll start off with the Customer of the Night for Last Night and the Customer of the Night for Tonight:

CUSTOMER OF THE NIGHT: 9/16: Weekend at Old Blue Eyes' 2:Electric Boogaloo

This customer was, for all intensive purposes, an INCREDIBLY nice woman, and even typing this, I feel incredibly bad, but this story is far too priceless to forget. The woman, in her late forties came up holding the original Manchurian Candidate, starring Frank Sinatra, and she comes up and asks "Do you have Weekend at Bernie's. So I look in the computer, and I tell her we don't have it. So as I'm checking her out, I point at Manchurian Candidate ask "Ever seen this before?" And she says "No actually, is it, is it good?" And I'm like "it's excellent actually, have you seen the remake with Denzel Washington? This one is better, but the remake is surprisingly well done." And she's like "I've actually seen the one with Denzel, the reason I watched it is someone told me it was filmed where my son used to live, but I have to tell you, I watched it, I didn't understand what was going on at all...Like, I had no idea what was happening or what was going on or anything....Did you get it?" And I was like "Yeah, I got it." And She's like "You did? I didn't get it at all." She looks at me like I'm telling her I could explain the theories of Steven Hawking. So I'm like "So, do you want the Sinatra one?" And she's like "No...I was kind of hoping you had Weekend at Bernie's. THAT FILM IS AWESOME...I wanted to show my kids so bad!"

All I could think was "Miss, I think I know why you don't understand the plot of The Manchurian Candidate"

CUSTOMER OF THE NIGHT: 9/17: Just Because They Say It On TV...

This customer is an older man, probably in his late sixties with a beard, who comes up to the front counter and is renting the first 3 discs of the second season of Deadwood. So I say to the guy, "This show is absolutely awesome. My boss thinks it's the best show on Television." Without warning the guy gets this stern look in his eye, leans right over the counter and SCREAMS at me "SHUT THE *expletive deleted* UP!"

So I back up a little and my boss looks over at the guy with these HUGE eyes and I'm like "I'm sorry sir, did I say something and he's like "No, that's...that's what they say on the show is all." And he just gets this big smile on his face and I give him his discs and he leaves. I mean seriously, luckily he was the only customer in the store at the moment, but there could have been kids in there...