Season's Cretins
Potomac Video, 7:15pm:
Clerk: "Alt.... Alt... Yeah, here's your account. Last rental, March of 2003. Whoa."
Me: "Yeah, I've been away."
Clerk (slightly agitated): "Away!? Where'd you go man, China!?"
Me: "Sort of. Tokyo."
Clerk (long pause): "Dude... That's far away."
Ha ha. Kinda reminds me of that conversation in The Wire where Bodie and another banger are talking about how and why anyone would need to venture outside Baltimore.
Posted by: Maki | December 29, 2008 at 11:08 PM
The Potomac Video near me closed years ago, and it's been sitting their empty ever since. I remember snickering at the adult anime there when I was 13.
Posted by: wildarmsheero | December 30, 2008 at 01:49 AM
Ha! Potomac Video! Is that the one on MacArthur? Or is there one closer to your house?
Posted by: ChrisM | December 30, 2008 at 06:40 AM
I got the same thing when I returned from Tokyo.
Dolts.
Posted by: Dave | December 30, 2008 at 12:19 PM
It's the one near Chevy Chase. Aside from the posters on the walls, it hadn't changed in the half-decade since I'd last been there. Still the best selection of flicks in the area!
Posted by: Matt Alt | December 31, 2008 at 09:07 AM