2007-01-06 - 1:34 a.m.
"Did you find everything okay?"
"yes"
"Good good so we have the Norton package that'll be 69.99 with the in house rebate and there's another rebate in the box. And we've got Popeye wow I haven't seen this since I was younger in the early 80's and it was a rerun then."
"yeah, that it was"
"That's way back there, when Robin Williams was REALLY young. Can I ask... why're you buying this one so late, I mean it's been out for a while, and it seems an odd choice..."
"it was one of my dad's favorite movies, and I'd seen that movie with Adam Sandler, a romance thing kinda, and it played a song from Popeye"
"Oh I gotcha was that, was that Click by any chance, you know the one that just came out?"
"No it wasn't, it was uh...a few years ago, maybe 2004..."
"That's alright, can't remember now no problem, so anyway we've got a book on data mining and a book on hacking video game consoles... and your total is 200ish dollars"
"here is a giftcard for 50, and here's a gift certificate for 30."
"So just run the card for everything? Okay... hey Paul could you help me with this?"
Here he and paul fiddle around with the keyboard while I try to remember the name of that movie.
"--and I just staple this to our copy of the receipt?"
"Correct."
"Okay great thanks Paul. I'm going to go get your receipt, I'll be right back."
Paul enters a conversation with another employee which has to do with the temptations of handling as much cash as they do and I'm still wondering the name of that movie. He's got seven sisters... he busts that window and starts crying on the dentist...
"--admit that at a drive through you're not really seeing these kinds of purchases."
"I had a guy drive in and order 100 burritos once. It was for some Jewish festival, he said."
Paul laughs and walks away with the cash, presumably not to go make a down payment on a hundai or whatever it is he'd buy, and it feels like the name's on the tip of my tongue... sssss... Starts with an S I'm sure of it.
"And here's your receipt, sir, it shows the items here, and shows the gift card and the gift certificate here, and here's your remaining total, please sign here. Okay great, now I'll just go get your rebate, it's over there, I'll be back."
He leaves and I'm sitting here thinking "and all at once I knew I knew at once" and still the name's not coming. S-what, dammit?
I stood there for five minutes before I realized the second sentence he said to me told me about the in-box rebate I'd already seen before walking up to the counter. The rebate my stoned ass was standing at an empty counter waiting for.
Oh and the movie? Punch Drunk Love. Man I was so close.
