Do you remember those Friday nights going to the video store?

You'd roam around the aisles with your best friend or your dad looking for that perfect

thing to watch at the end of the week.

My video store was really small.

This was a mom and pop kind of place.

It just had one aisle and we'd go around in circles and sometimes we'd find nothing we

wanted to watch.

Then a new place opened a few towns over.

This place had no charm.

It was at the end of a strip mall.

It had bright fluorescent lighting and if you asked someone on staff a question they

just could not be bothered.

There was an aggressive selection of candy near the checkout and it had a lot more movies

than the place I used to go to in town.

And so for a lot of us this is where we ended up going.

There's one near you.

Not by the same video.

Wow, what a difference.

And to be honest I sometimes felt a little guilty about it.

Blockbuster was uninspiring but it was convenient.

And then the local video store in our town shut down a few years later and we felt kind

of complicit.

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