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Like I woke up in Wonderland..
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Or seeing that they are all sold out of what you want on the shelf, but checking the returns and finding it.
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Stay down bitch!
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Hell yeah Video Library in Lenexa was the best. They had everything. That was a great place to rent obscure, hard to find movies. Rental fees were high but you put up with it because their selection was so great.
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He's Mahomie!
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Don't forget the rewind fee!
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Like I woke up in Wonderland..
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And those damn credit card companies charging interest. Bastards.
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A LOT shitty movies with cool covers/spines were rented at Block Buster and Video Zone by me in high school.
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There was a Blockbuster next door to Little Caesar's in college. We would order a deep dish pizza at Little Caesar's, wait till its ready at Blockbuster and normally buy a bunch of the candy and other junk they had.
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Stay down bitch!
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I remember when women would put on their dating profiles that sometimes they like to stay home and make it a blockbuster night now they say they like to Netflix and chill. When you see milestones like that you realize you’ve been ****ing random strangers on the internet for quite a while.
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a haw haw haw
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Ironically, although the Blockbuster is long gone, the Racanellis relocated to almost right outside my former front door on The Loop.
If I still lived there, I'd probably push 3 bills. ![]()
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Always went to Family Video instead.
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