That time we rented The Commuter for ten days
We still suck at using Redbox. This movie probably wasn’t worth watching once, let alone having it for ten days.
Well, it’s been long enough that this happened that I now laugh about it, so I am ready to share it as a PSA!
As you know, Redbox charges you by day, for how long you have their movies. So ideally, you pick it up one day, and return it the next. It’s a pita to go pick up a movie (and return it!), but we watch a lot of movies, and so many of them are BAD that I’d rather spend less money to watch a disk, then pay $5+ to watch on demand (or pay less but watch with commercials, yuck). Anyway.
So, on April 29th we rented The Commuter. We put it in the car to return on April 30th. We also turned in the car to the dealership for work on April 30th, and did not get it back until May 8th. On May 9th, when I got home, and was taking things out of the trunk, I decided to throw out the trash bag the dealership left in my car, then realized it had a few of my things in it… including The Commuter.
W
T
F
We never returned it on the 30th. It slipped through the seat of the car and we forgot, only for it to be found when they were working on my car, and held hostage in the car for nine days at the dealership (I kind of wished they would have called me and told me…).
So when I finally returned it on May 9th, we paid $20 total for renting it – $2 for each day, because you know, we had upgraded to the blu-ray. That $20 kind of stung, but hey, at least I looked in that garbage bag and didn’t just throw it away!
So! Don’t make the same mistake as me!
This turned us off Redbox for a while, and we finally started using it again. And almost forgot to return our disk this week within the one day time frame. What is wrong with us?! Ha ha ha.
Themocracy
We still suck at even trying Redbox.
We’re all so old!