Posted by Dick Sidbury on 02/11/06 04:28

In article <1139615354.933298.326890@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
"wunnuy" <wunnuy@netzero.net> wrote:

> Dick Sidbury wrote:
> > In article <1139587541.807481.28860@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
> >>
> > As far as I know, the DVDs are not protected, only the cases. So a
> > clever thief could open the case take out the DVD and put it somewhere
> > and march out of the store, assuming of course that the cases are not
> > empty. I haven't been into blockbuster in a while so I don't know if
> > the cases are empty or not.
>
> All DVDs and videos in stores include the bar code on the actual DVD so
> they can match the box with the DVD and so people can't leave with
> them. It's pretty common.
> >
> > > They greet you because they think it makes it more pleasureable for
> > > you, which it doesn't.
> >
> > And you know this how?
>
> Um, why else in the world would they greet you?
>
Because their boss tells them it's part of the job?
>
> > I just ignore them when I go in. I've never had anyone demand that I
> > respond to their greeting.
>
> But you just said when someone greets you, it makes you feel all warm
> and glowy inside because you're 60! So now you're saying you ignore it?
> Which is it?
>

Could you quote the place where I said that I felt all warm and glowy?
I'll admit that in my dotage my memory isn't what it used to be, but I
think you may be misinterpreting something here and I'd like to see what
statement led you to believe that I made this claim.

> >
> > Well as the rest of this post indicates, you clearly didn't comprehend
> > what I said. But to be sure, I'll explain it more fully. Sam's
> > requires its checkout people to thank the person leaving the store by
> > their first name. There's a note on the side of the cash register that
> > says if the checkout clerk fails to do this you will get a dollar. *I*
> > resent people who I don't know and who don't know me, calling me by a
> > familiar name. They haven't earned the right to do so. Maybe this makes
> > me cocky, but I don't think so.
> >
>
> Whoopie! So what you're doing then is hoping you can make that extra
> dollar. That's wonderful and I wish you the best with that.
>
I don't see that anywhere in the above paragraph. But if that's the way
you want to interpret stuff go right ahead.

> As for the cockiness, I was referring to my saying "no 18 year old
> knwos more about film than I do"

which, IMHO, makes you cocky.

> and you made some stupid comment knock
> off to my comment about 18 year olds making you feel great because they
> say you're name. Maybe I misread it as cocky or condescending - that's
> how it came across.

Where did I say that having someone younger than my children call me by
my first name made me feel great? The point that I was making was that
having someone that young call me by my first name aggravates me.

dick

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