[manasecret]

What the hell is wrong with people?

Yeah, great way to start a thread. But jesus, what's with people manhandling DVDs???

I rented An Inconvenient Truth and started watching it an hour ago with a suitemate. We were gettin' into it, liking it so far, and 45 minutes in to the movie, just as we were completely hooked, the #@$!%* thing skips all to hell. I try to skip over it, but it goes on and on for the next four or five chapters.

Movie thoroughly ruined for us at this point -- and after the DVD actually crashes my DVD player for the first time ever -- I take it out to take a look at it. Amazing. It's like someone took the scratchy side of one of those different-sided dish sponges and meticulously and neatly scratched the DVD from the outside in, all the way around the entire circumference of the disc. I wish I hadn't ruined my camera in the dryer a year ago otherwise I'd take a picture for y'all. I would actually be impressed by the very neat work if I weren't trying to watch the damn thing and if it didn't fuel my usually dormant hatred for all mankind.

I'm not ruling out Republican sabotage.

But this also fuels my hatred for Blockbuster, and all other rental places in general including all the Netflixxes out there. This DVD is obviously ruined. YET, they still put it back up on the shelves for the next dumb schmuck like me who comes along and rents it. Yes, I can go back tomorrow when Blockbuster reopens, and get another copy free of charge. But this happens like every third rental. A ridiculous waste of time and thinning of my patience.

My suitemate brought up a good point -- I'll just check the DVD for scratches before I leave the store everytime I rent a ******* movie. Of course, this doesn't work for Blockbuster online....