Practicalities of Renting a Movie

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June 19, 2003
860 words
Practicalities of Renting a Movie
A light summer rain mists against the window on a Friday evening. The clouds are thinning out leaving behind drops of water from the heavens. I’m sitting on the couch, thinking of something to sit back and relax and watch on T.V., when there is nothing of my interest and appeal. I have maybe three dollars in my pocket and not enough gas to drive thirty minutes or so to see an interesting movie at the theater. I look at my watch to check the time and wonder if there is somewhere I can get a movie. I have seen all the ones I own a thousand times and can quote them almost. Renting a movie, I thought, would be a great idea, because of the convenience, choices, and the cost.
If I rented a movie, I would not have to drive thirty minutes or so to pay almost seven dollars to see a movie once. That is not even counting the cost of buying snacks which would be around six dollars for popcorn and a coke. So I called around and...