Feedback, followed by a modern-day Hollywood Video Miracle

First off, thank you so very much for the fantastic feedback I received concerning my last blog entry! What really struck me about both suggestions were how starkly different yet individually sensible they were.

Brooke's idea, I think, is nothing short of brilliant -- especially from a subconcious standpoint. I was thinking about it, and although it will require some preemptive planning and 15 minutes of a friend's time (or 15 minutes of a hobo's time, along with a bottle of whiskey...which might work out even better...hmmmm..) , the end result could not only get me a date with Agent Bookslave, but provide a subliminal foundation of confidence and integrity within her mind whenever she looks at me...It's like a form of mind control!

OK, this is how I see the situation playing out: I get a friend to play the role of an extremely talkative, annoying, disheveled, and ultra-bookish customer that just WON'T stop talking to her about inaccessible subjects like the early days of the Pony Express (...Come to think of it....This guy's stealing my role in real life!...j/k.). After a few minutes of this, I'll come in and rescue her from this horrible situation by asking her whether the store carries a certain book. If all goes well, then the "annoying customer" will leave, we can deride him for a few seconds, and wallah! We're on our way. Also, due to this event, when she sees me, she might subconciously think: "Hey It's Jeff!....Good...Jeff is Good."

On the other hand, Butterscotch's approach is much more direct and concise: take your shot, and whatever shall be shall be, which I think a lot of people can appreciate. It also is the quickest method for relieving the exhausting, meandering tendencies of my imagination. The only problem with this approach is that I can't drink coffee due to my Irritable Bowel Syndrome (I could imagine the situation:

"Hey, wouldyouliketogooutforcoffee?? WellnotcoffeeexactlybecauseIhaveIrritableBowelSyndromeandbecauseofthatitmakesmeviolently
ill!!!..................I'm Jeff!"

....ahh, screw it, I'll drink Sanka instead.....Perhaps I can combine the 2 approaches into 1 grand super-approach!

Anyway, thanks for the feedback, it is much appreciated....Lately, I've been talking a LOT about my hilariously convoluted dating life, and while it's fun, it is also very draining for me to recount every last detail of every last ridiculous situation.

So now, I am going to talk about something extremely insignficant and materialistic that is making me very HAPPY at the moment..

OK, so I rent movies at Hollywood Video, and I love this one offer they feature called MVP. This stands for Free Movie Pass, and the deal goes as follows: If you pay $10.99/month, you can get 3 movies from the "Film Library" every 5 days, and it costs you NOTHING!....I signed on to this offer in November of last year, and every 5 days, I went back on got 3 more movies for free. November eventually ended, and with that, my MVP membership ended..or so I thought.

However, around Christmas time, I rented 7 movies. As I was preparing to pay, I was told that the cost of the 7 movies (3 DVD) was $4.29.....I looked confused: How could 7 movies cost $4.29??? I assumed that the guy made a mistake, and I asked him how 7 movies could possibly cost less than 5 dollars...He assured me that $4.29 was all that I had to pay, and so I stopped arguing with him....I got out of there with a lucky discount....or so I thought.

I went back last week, picked up 3 movies, and as I was preparing to pay for my movies, I hear the cashier say, "OK, you're all set to go!".....Muddled I was, so I flat out told the guy, "Look....Am I still on MVP? I shouldn't be, I thought it expired last month". Once again, I got into an argument with the cashier where I argued that I SHOULD pay for my movies, and that he was making a mistake....

After a 3 minute struggle, I thought to myself, "OK Jeff, if they don't want you to pay for your movies, then fine, make them happy!" So I pretended like I was confused about the whole bit and said, "Sorry about that...It's the end of the week, I guess I'm tired".....(it was 12 noon)

I went again to the store, and ONCE AGAIN got movies for free, even though I know for a fact that my MVP has expired a while ago....I am absolutely positive...

So I'm left with one possible explanation: there must have been some computer glitch or data entry error that affected my MVP status, and somehow, this resulted in me having -- PERMANENT MVP!!!!

That's right: I strongly believe that I can rent pretty much any movie I want in the store for free, permanently!..

Life is goooood! LOL!!