Renting Via Red Box

Let's just start by saying that Red Box and Netflix are the two greatest inventions ever. Kay, not ever, but they come pretty close to it.

We watch a lot of movies. One, it's cheap and two, it usually calls for chocolate. I promise that this story isn't going anywhere. So please don't expect some life changing moment to form onto the screen. I just wanted to share a story.

Remember when you were a little kid and Circle K was on every corner. Fine, not every corer, just on two out of the four given corners at an intersection, plus one Circle K less than a quarter mile away. You remember that? I guess it wasn't when you were just a little kid, it has pretty much always been that way. Store that mental picture of your favorite Circle K convenience store to the side in your brain somewhere.

Now. A few days ago Brett and I rented a movie online from Red Box. If you didn't already know, you can rent online and pick up your movie later, we do this for the popular movies. So after renting online, we got in the car and drove to the Circle K behind our apartment to pick up our movie (this is our normal Red Box location and it is literally right behind our apartment). 

Brett gets out of the car, walks up to Red Box, swipes his card, swipes his card again, and walks back to the car without a DVD. He then proceeds to explain how retarded he is for going to the wrong Circle K. He rented our movie from the Circle K of off Williams Field, and we were at the Circle K off of Pecos.

Okay. Williams Field it is.

We drive to the Circle K off of Williams Field. He gets out of the car, walks up to Red Box, swipes his card, swipes his card again, then walks back to the car without a DVD. Again, he tells me that he is retarded, and since we are on the west side of the intersection we are now in Chandler and Williams Field becomes Chandler Boulevard. So we still haven't made it to the correct Red Box of off Williams Field.

We soon realized which Circle K we needed to be at. For reals this time.

As we drive to the correct Circle K off of Williams Field we drive past a unnamed gas station that has a Red Box. And you would not believe this, but one parking lot over, at Sonic, there is another Red Box. You can totally stand at one Red Box and see another. Meanwhile I am thinking about how dumb it is that we have to drive to three different Red Box locations when there are probably six Red Box machines within walking distance of my apartment.

Here is the moral of the story. 

Actually, I don't have one. I just remembered this wasn't a life changing story.

Someday, you are going to forget all about Circle K. They'll no longer be the dominating feature overpopulating our streets. The only association Circle K will have with your brain is the fact that Red Box is most likely located there. And at your local grocery store. Most likely at Walgreens. Sonic too. Red Box has taken over, and there is probably going to be one assigned for every neighborhood by 2012.

We eventually got our movie.

The end.