2. You were desperate enough to pass the time that you clicked on this post even though you have a strong distaste for posts like this. You can’t even respect yourself for reading this right now, but you’re going to finish it, because that’s where you are with life now. Who needs dignity? Not you!
3. You have started to resent every living thing around you, including cats. Most especially cats, actually. You have taken to focusing your rage on their leisurely lifestyle. You have said things to your cat like, “Oh, wouldn’t it be GREAT to be a CAT?! You just sleep and eat and shit all day. REAL DIFFICULT LIFE, SNIFFLES MCWHISKERSON!!!!!” (You are not okay. You are yelling at a cat.)
4. You’re hungover from last night’s happy hour which turned into closing down the bar because you are not really into facing the reality of your life right now, tbh.
5. You cannot remember the last time you were relaxed. Really, you have no recent recollection of being at ease in your life. Real quick think of like a relaxing meadow or something. Does that feeling of calm make you stressed out? Yeah, you’re not okay.
6. You’re about one instance of being micro managed away from losing it all together and quitting your life to go be a professional street juggler or some weird ass shit like that. (Don’t do that, though.)
7. The best part of your day today was eating your sad lunch on your sad lunch break for only one really sad hour. (Hopefully you got fries.)
8. Every part of your body hurts. Even your eyes burn. The space between your fingers aches. You’ve discovered new ligaments in your neck that now have knots on them. The mere act of being alive hurts you.
9. You are the exact embodiment of a person whose soul has been sucked from them. Everything in your life is soul-sucking. Your existence is soul-sucking. Just keeping your eyes open is soul-sucking.
10. You have a very strong sensation of needing a hug from your mom (or whoever in your life represents comfort). You may want to get a good cry going while you’re at it.
11. You haven’t showered in three or four days because you have been trying to sleep as much as you possibly can in the morning, so you’ve been hitting snooze five times minimum and rushing out the door. You also have forgotten breakfast so now you’re hungry all day and everything is sad.
12. You found this post on Facebook because you are on Facebook all the time now. Your life is Facebook. You’re even playing Farmville. (You’re better than that.)
13. Speaking of Facebook, you’ve taken to turning on the chat function and saying what’s up to people you haven’t talked to in like three years because you’re that bored and that burnt out. (Dude, Shelly from high school does not want to chill.)
14. You are willing yourself to get a cold so you have a legitimate reason to call in sick. Did you just lick the bathroom door handle? Gross, but your dedication is commended.
15. Every time you see a crying baby, you’re like, “What do you know of stress, sir? You know nothing of real problems! I could fill a small Koi pond with my tears! Oh, big deal, you have a poopy diaper. MY WHOLE LIFE IS A POOPY DIAPER.”
16. Opening up your email at the beginning of the day gives you so much rage that you feel like you’re about to turn in The Hulk and go smash up some shit.
17. You’re about to share this post and be like, “SO ME, DYINGGGGG.”
6. You’ve seen nearly every film within the realm of your interest range from the time that you worked there.
Bravo Networks
Bravo Networks
7. … Regardless of its quality.
Syfy Films
8. Friends ask you for movie recommendations and you get way too excited.
Bravo Networks
9. You would never get to bed at a regular hour, as you’d finish late and stay up all night watching movies.
The CW
Showtime
10. Having first pick of the new releases made you feel like a ~VIP~.
Tristar Pictures
11. Every now and then your boss would ask you to clean the store. You’d be like:
Oxygen
… And then sort of walk aimlessly around the store while holding cleaning products.
12. Calling all the people on the overdue list was a tedious, slow-release nightmare…
FOX
13. … But it helped you perfect the art of sounding chipper while having an uncomfortable conversation.
Bravo Networks
“Hi, this is Stephanie from Blockbuster video! I’m just calling because you’ve got the movie Torque, and it’s actually 72 days overdue??”
“I never hired that.”
“Actually, sir, I remember hiring it out to you, and asking you to return it two weeks ago when you were in the store last, and you didn’t deny hiring it then, sooo…?”
*click*
14. It also taught you how to cope with a customer loudly berating you on a Saturday night in front of a line of 25 customers, while you’re working by yourself, over a 50 cent late fee.
AMC
AMC
AMC
“I’m sixteen years old and being paid minimum wage to deal with you, but would you like me to pay your FIFTY CENT fine out of my purse in front of all these customers you’re holding up while you berate me? Because I can afford it. Also I remember you bringing the movie back late because it happened three days ago.”
15. You’re really, really skilled at answering questions like “You know that movie? The one with that guy from that show? It was on a few weeks ago, you must’ve seen it. You KNOW THE ONE I MEAN!”
Sony Pictures Entertainment
16. You also have a bizarre knack for recalling obscure things about movie covers that help you locate them quickly.
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
“Do you have The Tracker?”
“Oh yeah! I saw it just before”
*locates DVD by the font on the spine of the case*
17. Sometimes, you’d get drunk on power and experience a teensy, tiny amount of pleasure in calling a teenager’s parents to request permission to rent them an R-rated movie, and then having to relay to them that their parent said no.
The Weinstein Company
… In front of all their friends.
18. The tapes played on a loop were the devil.
FX
FX
The same hour of previews, and two music videos, every hour, for eight hours, four times a week. You still can’t listen to any of the songs that were the featured music videos, because they haunted you in your dreams for long months after they’d been retired from the loop tape.
19. Preview tapes, on the other hand…
MTV
Watching the next month’s releases before they come out? Yes, please.
20. Speaking of tapes, when customers would return their VHS tape without rewinding them, this would be your reaction:
Bravo Networks
21. On the other hand, the anticipation of wondering if your customer crush would come to “visit you” at any moment was the high point of many of your shifts.
ABC Family
22. And you were guilty of checking their account like a creeper to see if they have any rentals due back that day.
Bravo Networks
23. Finally, you made at least one genuine friend after chatting with your regular customers and discovering you have the same taste in films.
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