Fun Fact: I worked at Blockbuster my first four years in radio to help pay the bills.
A guy couldn’t help but see the irony that I watched “The Last Blockbuster” on Netflix. Aside from that it really brought out some PTSD, and I’m not kidding yah. Suddenly I started asking everyone in the house if they wanted their rental for two nights or seven. And if they “wanted to renew their Rewards Membership?” It was fun to learn that if I ever met Adam Brody we can talk about my blockbuster days. In the Documentary Brody has a lot more nice things to say about it than I ever do. It’s not that it was a terrible place to work at, but it just was not fun for me.
Kids today will never know that terrible feeling that sets in after ten minutes of calling customers and ruining their day like a bill collector letting them k they owe money on movies they most likely will never return. Or the feeling of having to walk the floor on Saturdays and hounding people about the Twizzlers on sale they most likely will not buy at the counter once when they finally make their decision on a movie they might rent. But yes the store’s “aroma of popcorn and plastic from the DVD cases” like they mention in the documentary was the good stuff.
The only aroma I think I have with Blockbuster Video is desperation.
But I don’t want to end this on a negative note. Because, yes I have Blockbuster PTSD. I actually still have my membership card in a box somewhere. I needed a second job and I am thankful I got to do it. Because it was not only something I needed to do at the time to get by. I also watched pretty much every movie ever released from 2009 to 2011 and they had some good stuff come out at that time.
~Andy
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