"Damn! You did it now. I was just bluffing. I didn't want to go in here. Now here we are in perverts heaven. How are we gonna get out of this one now? Turn around! Abort! Abort! I repeat abort the mission!" It's too late. Just the repetitive procedure of opening a door and entering it didn't allow me to do anything in between. Once it started, I couldn't stop, I didn't know how. I never opened a door half way before then turned around. Try it some day, once you start opening a door it takes a lot of mental effort to just let it go and turn around without entering. To make matters worst, the door hasn't even closed behind me and the clerk starts talking to me.
'Hi there, good afternoon. How are you today?'
"Shit! Why is he talking to me? I hate it when store clerks talk to me." And that's in regular stores. I get all nervous and want to leave, so you could imagine my panic now. Surprising a calm confident voice leaves my mouth.
'Oh, good afternoon. I'm ok' I wipe the snow off my shoes on the matt and walk the rest of the way into the store.
"He must have been talking to me, I'm the only one in the store." I continue to walk into the store right up to the counter, glancing at the shelves on my way.
'I never been in one of these stores before, so you just have movies and magazines. I guess you don't have any gadgets and toys?'
'No, but we will have soon.' Now I notice there's another guy sitting behind the counter, but the first guy does the talking and goes into a kinda sales pitch. I nod and look interested.
'I see, ya, well I just thought I'd stop in and look around. I see these places popping up all over the place so I finally decided to check it out'
"You mean you finally got the nerve to go into one of these stores. Ssshhh! Let's just look around and get out ok." The clerk goes on saying more stuff, but I'm already to caught up in the covers of the videos just off to my left. Since he's on my right, he's not blocking my view. Good thing for him, because I'm being so unconsciously rude now, and so into the titles, that I might of just pushed him aside if he was.
"Pay attention! Don't want to look like a drooling pervert" Good timing I caught myself just as he was going into his closing statements and answer with a polite,
'Thanks' So I turn to the shelves and start browsing, and just then the second guy jumps up and says,
'And next weeks special will be on whips and chains!' We all laugh, and I continue browsing. As I go through the store I realize this place really well laid out. Everything is categorized and presented professionally.
"This place is better maintained than some regular video stores I've been in. What did you expect, a pack of dirty old men hovering over a box of unmarked tapes" They had everything: Girls on Girls, Bigins, Oral, Anal, Black, White, Asian, and Inter-racial, Adventure, Sports, Kinky, Detective, Couples, Amateur, even New releases. And I sure I didn't see them all. They even had a Gay Men self, but I quickly walked by that section. I didn't want the store clerks to see me looking interestedly at that self, they might think I was gay (not that there's anything wrong with that). So I completely circled the shop and made my way back to the counter.
'Well thanks, have a nice day'
"I'm outta here!" But then suddenly the clerk came from around the counter.
'Well since you took the time to come in and see the place, I might as well tell you a little more about ourselves'
"Oh no, here it comes. They're gonna tell me I can't leave. The make-shift studio is in the basement and tonight I'm the guest star. Get a grip" He actually goes on to tell me that every movie in the store can be bought or rented. The price to buy is $69.95 and to rent is $4.99. Also, when you buy a movie you can trade it in at some later date and half it's purchase price will be put towards anything else you buy. Then he showed me a special sale shelf where the movies where going for 3 for the price of 1. He said people could even become members and get some special privileges. Like a product list, mail catalogues, etc.
'Well, I wasn't planing to get anything today, but I'll probably come back and get something over the weekend.'
'Ok, so see you later. Have a nice day.'
'Ok, thanks again, bye' "See that wasn't so bad."
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