Returning DVD's (and trying to find them)

We used to have a DVD rental shop about a kilometer from our house, but recently it’s shut down. Now, my family LOVES watching DVD’s, especially funny ones. Though, my dad has a weird obsession with a movie called Top Gun. It’s weird. In fact, for father’s day mum got him a cup that says Top Dad on it, with the same style as the title Top Gun on the movie… he’s blind though, so I’m not sure if he could fully appreciate what mum thought was brilliant.

Anyway, I’m getting side-tracked. Since our DVD rental shop got closed down, we know have to go to one that is around a ten/fifteen minute drive away. Which sucks.

Now, I have an unfortunate habit of forgetting where I leave things.

I seriously just forget in minutes and end up looking around for ages. Once I lost my phone, only to discover I had put it on the bookshelf, and then it all came back to me- I had put it on the bookshelf because I thought I wouldn’t forget I put it there because it was a weird place to put it.

Ellie-Fish moment

I’m digressing… again.

I always forget where I put the DVD’s. Always. And last night was no different. Mum had borrowed a couple of awesome movies for us and wanted to return them, so I was hunting all over for the disks.

During my hunting, I found a DVD that belonged to me...

...but it was obviously not the one I was looking for, so I handed it to my three year old cousin Jaida (Ella’s sister) and asked her to put it in the lounge room. She trotted off, and I continued looking.

Then mum walked past and out the door, and I felt a bit puzzled, then assumed that she had found the DVD, and stopped searching and started playing with Ella and Jaida.

We were on the trampoline, and about half an hour later mum had arrived home and she marched outside and asked, “what DVD did I ask for, Juni???” I felt a bit puzzled and said,

“You asked for the Men in Black DVD.” Mum put her hands on her hips.

“Well, the DVD shop just rang and said that the wrong disk was inside the case! I have to drive all the way back there or I’m going to be charged extra! That’s going to take half an hour!!” she raged.  

I felt really pissed off upset at the way she was speaking, and I said, “well you headed off before I even found the DVD!” and mum said,

“Jaida gave me a DVD and said you gave it to her!”

I was bemused, then I remembered giving Jaida a disk to take into the loungeroom. “Um, I gave Jaida a disk to put on the coffee table.” I told her, “didn’t you even look at the disk before you put it in the cover?”

Mum looked a bit guilty. “No…”

Turns out Jaida had given mum the DVD and mum stupidly naively forgot to check it. In your face mum!!!! I was in the right and you were in the wrong!!! Take that!!! Um…. let that be a lesson to you mum that you should always check which disk you’re putting in the case.

  

Love Juni!!!!