The video store

Near my apartment, more precisely about a 2 minute walk from my door is a DVD rental store. This place is bigger than a mom and pop shop but is smaller than a major rental store like Tsutaya, which is the equivalent of a Blockbuster or Hollywood video store back in the states. Almost everyone and their grandma that lives in at least a one mile radius goes to this place, which is a lot of people since this is Tokyo. The reason why I know is when you rent movies from there, they give you a very distinct blue nylon bag to carry the videos and I've seen people haul that bag everywhere. Anyways, that place has been frustrating me the past couple of times I've been there. When new movies come out like Rush Hour 3 and even somewhat new films like Ratatouille, they are always rented out. The frustrating part is the reason why its always rented out is because they only have a few copies of the popular movies. I can understand if they have 3 copies for a new released Wesley Snipes film entitled "Me against the IRS", but I struggle to even rent the movie "300" which has been released here since last year because of the limited supplies. Its gone so bad, that I'm starting to stalk the workers there when they come out to put the recently brought back movies back on the shelves, hoping that they would put back the movie of my choice. The longest time I've spent stalking is about 30 minutes to see if they would put back the newest Harry Potter flick. I even had to try to jock for position at the Harry Potter portion of the shelves against my like-minded competitors. It took me a few attempts like this to finally get the movie. Its sad I know.. the feeling is exactly like trying to find a parking space in B or A parking Lot at GMU. Why do I keep going back there you ask... well the price to rent a movie is dirt cheap and like I mentioned before its 2 minutes away, so I can literally fall out of my door and still be in front of the store. LOL. On a funnier note, I found "One night in Paris" (Yes that one night in paris) in the new release drama section of the store the other day.....