In Moderation

Fucking hell. Every customer that has come in this morning has been a pain in the ass! They don't seem to understand that if a dvd has a sticker that says "3 Night Hire" is stuck on it then it has to be brought back in 3 days. They look at me as if I'm going to do them a favour. Give them a special deal because "I rent a lot from youse guys". I don't care. That's what they don't get. I don't give a fuck if they won't get a chance to watch the movie within 3 days. When they bring back a late disc I don't care what excuse they have. I don't care.

Well, there we have it. You have just witnessed a video store clerk snap. It happens all over the country. It could be happening in your town right now. Watch out or they'll get you! Like zombies. Or something.

Fucking stingy cu... customers. Just had this bloke who wanted to hire a game. An overnight game. But he wanted it for two days. I said, "well, we don't usually do that over weekends but alright". I told him the price and he goes, "Is that the best you can do?". I look at him and say no while thinking "Is that the best You can do?" Damn customers.

Todays Post: Andrew's from around the world!



Professor Andrew Bongiorno

That guy was a lecturer atsome University.

There's also a translator with my name.

More to come :)

Customer hands me back an overnighter.

Customer: Can I swap this for something else. It was crap.
Me: Uh...
Customer: We turned it off half-way through.
Me: Um, we don't really... do that.
Customer: Oh, ok.

Walks out.

Hmm.

Ah, video store life is interesting. I have found that there is a procedure for renting video store porn.

Step 1. Locate the porn. Spend next 15 minutes walking up and down the aisle occasionally glancing over at the titles to make your decision.
Step 2. Go and grab a new release.
Step 3. Go and grab 2 weeklies.
Step 4. Quickly walk past the porn snatching and then concealing your pick in between your other choices.
Step 5. Give your choices to the 15 year old video store girl.
Step 6. Take videos home.
Step 7. ...
Step 8. Come into my store.
Step 9. Give me a large opaque bag with the titles all the time looking at your feet.

If you're going to be ashamed about renting porn, get it off the net like the rest of us do!
This has been a community announcement from Andrew :)

Well, my birthday was a big success. I had at least ten different types of drinks at the three or so places we ended up, also had a great time with people who mean a lot to me :) I thank everyone who was able to make it to either party! Jess gave me the awesome present of a bag of stuff that I like. Including Oreos, Nudie juice and some chocolate cake stuff from Leo's. Yum. Anyways, I don't have much else to say at the moment so, til next time, stay classy... world!

Oh my god. Just got home. The Xbox 360 was unleashed tonight. It was fucking crazy!!! I am in total awe of this system. It connects gaming to realism in so many unthinkable ways. I played 5 or 6 different games and I was stunned at the realism and the immersion that this console yields. At the same time however, I was under the influence of no less than three full strength beers, each of which could have contributed to my game playing experience. Nevertheless, I am definately ranking this console and the top console of the new gaming generation. (The fact that there is only one console in this new gaming generation is beside the point.) Carry on my 360-less chums! Ye are indeed less advanced the we. Um... Did I mention drunk>:?

Son ofa bitch god damn it! On saturday we went into the city and we parked Jess's car near the Carlton exhibition centre and we came back after three hours to find the car was broken into. The doors were still locked and the windows weren't smashed but somebody had stolen my mobile and Jess's purse. So yeah, needless to say, Saturday sucked. A good thing though was Alex's birthday party. We got him this funky Fossil watch with animated seconds. I had pizza :)

Why do weird people like to come into video stores? I'm looking at this guy that has walked up and down looking at the same shelf for half an hour. Now, you may think this is normal. I get lots of people that come in here and look around for a long time. I know it takes a while to figure out what you want to watch. This guy is getting on my nerves though. Not only is he picking up titles to have a closer look, he is also walking with them and putting the down in the wrong place. This just really pisses me off! He's moved like 15 different things! Why do that?! Dammit!

Tonight sportsfans we have quite a treat for you! Today is the first round of "Will they run into the door?"

Basically one of the automatic sliding doors in front of Safeway is broken and therefore blocked off. Now, even though they have two signs on the actual windows of the door people don't tend to look when they're walking into it. So far three people have actual hit the door. hehehe, I know, it's kind of sadistic, but hey it's a sunday night and I'm in charge of a video store.

Who wants margherita's?!

Do you ever meet those people that you just don't like? They come into your dvd store and act like complete tools. There's this guy who comes in regularly that is one of those. He talks too loud, makes annoying and harsh jokes, and when he hands me the money he pulls it back when I go to grab it. When he tried that last one today I replied with "ha ha, that's original" in a dry tone. from the look on his face I don't think he'll be making any more jokes.

He he he, I love my job. A guy just walked in and asked me for Star Wars: Revenge of the Scythe. I had to hold the laughter while showing him where it was.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the video store.

Andrew is back!

... with a vengeance!

A whole new year is here, fresh from the oven, for us to nibble on.

New Year's Eve was an interesting night. A whole lot of us when down to Steve's beach house for a party. There was everything! Drinking, music, late night swimming and costumes! Craziness.

I also took a week of work and went to Ocean Grove. It was awesome. I went boogie boarding a couple of days, I went fishing once (Badly, caught nothing), boating one of the days (Picture Jess and I struggling against the current in a blow up boat). The crappest thing was that I got sick almost as soon as I got there. I'm still coughing from all the phlegm (that is such a disgusting looking word!).

Happy birthday to Kat for last week. Sorry we couldn't make it to your party, we've got you a present though :) We'll drop it by sometime soon.

So here I am. Another christmas party for the Bongiorno family. Dad gets out of the car. Farts almost immediately, kind of like he's establishing his territory. Inside the house we go. 'Hi', I dodge a kiss, 'sorry, yes, sick'. Cough (just so they know that I really am sick). A couple of new faces. Not sure who they are. After a few times walking around the room I've heard the words 'Devine', 'sushi', and 'wholegrain'. From the other side of the room I hear my uncle say 'I love prawn' a couple of shocked looks then a few chuckles. It's going to be one of those nights. Merry Christmas. *Cough*

"That's just how the lifeline is divided!"

Another year is drawing to a close. What have we learnt?

- $3 pasta isn't really as good a you thought it was when you were off your face.
- When you're drunk on St. Patricks day, don't try and walk down stairs.
- If somebody you don't like calls you, just act drunk and sound like you're at a crazy party.
- Walking down Claredon street with an over-sized traffic cone on your head is a bad idea if you want to stay upright.
- If you're in Bendigo waiting for taxi's, don't go to the toilet unless you like waiting in the rain for 20 minutes for people to come back and get you.
- If you see a fight start in the Odeon nightclub, step back a couple of metres before continuing to watch.
- Some European people aren't friendly.
- All Swiss people are hot. (Thereby also some Swiss people are nice).
- Don't fight with people you love when you're drunk. You won't make sense and will probably fall asleep halfway through.
- Always watch out for trucks. Especially ones from bedding companies.
- Don't take any crap from customers. You're paid to work, not make people feel good for their petty lives.
- You can learn a lot from cartoons.
- Parents leaving their kids in your store are the incarnation of evil.
- Kath & Kim are breathing life back into Aussie television.
- Put a $2.95 sticker on it and people will buy anything.
- Tupperware isn't just for women, really. I swear.

I want a Vespa. Now

It puts the lotion on its skin.

I need to learn how to draw. Well, I'm not sure you can actually learn that sort of thing.

Anybody else seen all this crap thats happening up in Sydney the past few days? What is happening? Are we turning into America or something? Want my opinion? Both sides are stupid. Throughout history the same old bullshit has kept on happening. One group of people hating another group of people just because they're different. I say if you're going to dislike someone, dislike them for who they are within themselves, not for where they come from or what they look like.

Oh well.

So Very Sunburnt.

If I could detach my shoulders I would. I'm in a lot of pain. On the other hand every thing else in my life is going pretty good.

Except I need to pee.

Can't have everything, eh?

Fucking shit. I fucked up. Most of you won't really care but this is really fucking getting to me. I just tried reformating my computer and stupidly I didn't disconnect my second hard drive. So every single thing from the past five years is gone. Photos, documents, music, school work and everything else is unrecoverable. This really sucks. Dammit.

Out of the depths of some crazy Swiss town comes an awesome new game!

This game is HEADMEISTER!!!

The basic rules of the game are one person from your group yells out 'Headmeister!' and puts his or her head down. The everyone else in the group rushes to put their head down and put it against everybody elses head while also yelling 'headmeister!'. The last person to put their head in is deemed the loser and everybody else puts there hands to their head in the L shape and calls them a loser.

Http://www.stargatewars.com/recruit.php?uniqid=od1125244038 There you go. Check that out. Click the link. I told you I was a nerd!