a thing happened to me, my wife and daughter when we were in the video rental shop last night. It was our very first "Family-Video-Renting-weekend" so we were pretty excited
After choosing 4 discs already, the staff suggested that we borrow another one so that the due date would be 5 days instead of the regular 3 days. My wife said: "
I get to choose" and since I chose 3 out of four already, then I agreed.
She wanted the Jerry Maguire R3 which hasn't got any special features in it
I said, "
it has no features in it so the experience would just be the same" since we already caught the movie during its theater run. She said, "
let me just get its VCD copy then, I don't care about the features, I just want to see the movie again" and so to discourage her on renting it, I said: "
just add 20 bucks in its rental fee and you already get a pirated copy".
Discussion & selection went on (she's on the VCD section while I'm on the DVDs) In the end, she wanted 'An American President' VCD and since the video shop doesn't have a DVD copy of that movie I had no choice. In my final effort to discourage her into renting a VCD, I told her, "
can we get something we'll watch together?" She knows that I like the movie but just not inclined in watching it on VCD.
Our discussion probably got pretty intense that another customer in the shop looked at us
My wife finally said: "
You choose!" So, a bit bothered, I looked at the DVD titles again. I saw one kid flick ("Madeline") among the titles. I said to wifey: "
Would you want this for Kite (our 2 year old daughter)?" Incidentally, while all these were happening, Kite was either: busy asking us to borrow a VHS (we don't have a player in our room) or taking a VHS tape out and away from its case or trying to cry her way for us to buy her munchies. Imagine the crazy scenario.
So when I asked wifey if she likes the title for our kid, she simply said, "
Yes". I couldn't believe it. That easy?! or she's being sarcastic? I don't want her to feel bad, especially not on our first 'Video Shop family trip', so I asked, "
are you sure?" She said, "Yes, actually (friend's name) recommends that. She said (friend's daughter's name) really likes it
" So off to the counter we went, drove home and lived happily ever after...
...until the next five days
