PERITOPIA!

Yesterday, I went to the video store in town.  I belong to Netflix, mind you.   And, remarkably, it manages to ship here next day — although the US Post Office refuses to guarantee any next day deliveries will actually be delivered the next day.   But I digress.  My point is that, sometimes, when I am waiting for my Netflix movies to arrive, I have to go to the town video store to rent a movie (at an astonishing price of $4.25).  Anyway, you can imagine what the town video store looks like (hint: video store in “Men in Black II”).  But it gets the new releases — and fairly quickly in decent amounts — I rented “Up” on Thanksgiving!  It also has movies on VHS — which, at this point, look like 8-track tapes.  But what I noticed yesterday that I never noticed before — because, until then, I always just browsed new releases — is that the movies are stored on the shelves IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER.  There claims to be sorting by genre, but I found comedies in drama, dramas in comedies and virtually no musicals in musicals.  And, as if that weren’t irritating enough, movies are also not sorted alphabetically within genres.  That’s right.  No alphabetical sorting of movies.  So, if you want to find a specific movie (G*d forbid), you would have to read literally hundreds, if not thousands, of titles.  I elected not to because my level of boredom hasn’t reached that plateau.  But I have to wonder why, why, why???  The answer has to be that the local collective consciousness understands the movie sorting system at the town video store whereas I don’t.  At least, not yet.  And stuff.  What?

Update: I went back again today.  There is only one Woody Allen movie in the Woody Allen section!

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