Back when I was a child…
Blockbuster store. Interior, night. The present day.
Me: Hi, I need Generations.
Blockbuster Drone: Generations?
Me: Star…Trek…Generations.
Blockbuster Drone: Is that a movie?
Me: Uh, no, It’s the name of my dog, have you seen him?
Blockbuster Drone: (vacant stare)
Me: Yeah it is a movie, A star trek movie.
Blockbuster Drone: (taps a keyboard) No.
Me: No? What does that mean? Are you telling me you do not have generations?
Blockbuster drone: No. I am telling you that we do not have Star Trek.
Me: Movies or series?
Blockbuster drone: Whatever.
Me: What? Wait, you’re telling me you in this store, have NO Star Trek…at all?
Blockbuster Drone: That’s what I said
Me: Why?
Blockbuster Drone: It’s not popular.
Me: The store?
Blockbuster Drone: The show
Me: Well…it is.
Blockbuster Drone: (shakes head, continues eating cheetos)
Me: (pause) Hows business?
Ex-Boyfriends House. Interior, Night. The present day.
Me: Do you have Generations?
Ex-Boyfriend: The movie?
Me: No, The gravy boat, I really need it.
Ex-Boyfriend: (vacant stare)
Me: Yes the movie.
Ex-Boyfriend: Why?
Me: I’m revisiting a childhood experience
Ex-Boyfriend: Of watching Star Trek or breaking into my house?
Me: (laughs) of going to the video store.
Ex-Boyfriend: Why?
Me: Uh, I do not know, because it was not shit…
Ex-Boyfriend: oh?
Me: Yeah, at my store they had all this awesome crap, like street fighter machines and novelty parking bays. We used to park in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bay all the time. They actually had a actual-size Falcon.
Ex-Boyfriend: So go there.
Me: I can’t, they have changed it to some other shit like a Baby co.
Ex-Boyfriend: Shame. You should try another store.
Me: I did, They stock Adam Sandler vehicles and pay tools to spit in my face.
Ex-Boyfriend: They did not have Generations?
Me: They did not have Star Trek.
Ex-Boyfriend: Well neither do I.
Me: What?
Ex-Boyfriend: [waves hand across shelf of discs] I watch Blu-Ray now.
Me: What?
Ex-Boyfriend: Dual-Layer Blu-Ray discs have a storage capacity six times that of a Dual Layer DVDs.
Me: What?
Ex-Boyfriend: I have Alien vs Predator.
Me: what?
Ex-Boyfriend: Actually I don’t even know why you thought of me, I thought you owned all of Star Trek.
Me: I do, But not on VHS, Which is the point. Fuck, Do you seriously own nothing other than Blu-Ray?
Ex-Boyfriend: [shakes head, continues watching Talladega Nights]
My house. Interior, Night. The present day.
Me: (watching Generations)
Brother: Are you aware we own that on DVD?
Me: VHS is my preferred format.
Brother: yeah, I miss the middle ages too.
Me: VHS is cool. Anyway the purpose is to revisit a childhood experience from borrowing this from a third party.
Brother: And, Does it match the quality of your memory?
Me: Actually its better. I forgot Picard actually visits Shatner in the fantasy world. I thought they met later on Verdian III.
Brother: Well thats humiliating.
Me: I know.
