> These complaints about video rental pricing are kind of surprising me - if only because every video store in my area charges four dollars a day. Yep - four dollars for one day. The video games are five dollars for three days. And there isn't a single Blockbuster to be seen within miles.

You can rent video games? And the others can rent DVD's?
Wow.

Chr"...and you have to walk through snow that's never less than ten feet deep through a hemlock forest full of rabid grizzlies with alders thicker than brick walls covered with ice to get to the road-- there was only the one-- to get to the dry cleaners, since there was no running water not frozen to clean your clothes. Of course, you're butt-naked through all of this. Then, once you get your clothes, you can void the 'no shoes, no shirt, no tie/skirt, no service' policy at the video store. That's another 36-hour march, but you didn't eat your raw babiche-- oh, no, not yet. You had to save that to boil on the way back to feed the other twelve children that were all younger than you. Family first, you see. Daddy wasn't gonna support those three ex-wives on his own, no sir. Well, once you got through to the video store, you didn't get videos, not 'less you were rich! You got slides. Of snow. Vast fields of snow. Now, people were more honest in those days. Now they just overexpose some film, tell you it's snow. We knew that Old Man Apo`tik wouldn't cheat us. Not that you could tell. Well, those rentals were only for two hours, so we took 'em home real quick, otherwize we'd get the stick. And this wasn't no twig, no sir, it was a whole Birch tree with willows intertwined. Daddy'd wield those weeds like they were but a toothpick. 'Course, toothpicks were bigger in that day..."is