DVD/Video Stores

On Sunday the DVD store where i've been hiring DVD's from for the past 6 years, had a closing down sale. It made me really sad because it was a small, privately owned DVD store, where the staff were always friendly and helpful. The prices were cheap and i loved the smell of popcorn/cinema when i was browsing in their store.

When i was a kid, one of my favourite weekend things to do was to go to the video store with my dad and brothers and browse all the videos on the shelves. I loved it. It used to be the best thing ever, the next best thing to Australia's Wonderland. We'd each get to choose 2 or 3 movies that we wanted to hire out, i always chose care bears or shirley temple movies, then we'd stop by the fish and chip shop on the way home and it was our Saturday/Friday night treat of the week. Loved it!

Shoot, even when i was finishing high school, my friends and i would love a good stroll through the DVD store, hiring random movies we'd never even heard of before!

Kids these days are growing up so deprived.

When i was in the DVD store on the weekend, choosing which DVD's i wanted to buy, a family was in there, they had a boy and a girl and it sounded like they were each picking out which movies to indulge in for the weekend.

It made me sad.

a. Because pretty soon, there won't be any movie hire stores left open.
b. That whole family experience and memory, will be restricted to a DVD box.

I guess when it comes down to it, i'm just a sucker for movies in general and the joy and fun it brings to go out and browse.