So this is a new development. A couple weeks ago this old guy came into the shop and ordered a coffee. He didn’t know what he was doing, so I explained the process: be the first one to buy a particular coffee, take home the title for a day. He said he didn’t watch movies, could he just have the coffee? I was yanking his chain, so I went, “No sir. If you buy the coffee, you have to take the movie. And you have to watch it. No fair leaving it in your truck.” (he drove an old as hell blue pick-up truck) So he checked out the board and he said, “That one, ‘Like Clockwork,’ what’s that?”
I told him it was a good coffee, had a punch of orange in it. He said go on ahead, so I made the coffee and brought out the Kubrick movie to go with it. He frowned at the cover but I held him to it. “Go on,” I said. “Watch it with the missus.” I probably shouldn’t have told him the last part. Next day he comes in and he looks like he’s really torn. He hands me the movie and almost whispers, “You about got me laid out by Darlene, showing that picture to her.” Then he goes on, “You got any more like that?”
Anyway, since then he’s been taking home one, sometimes two titles a night. He’s about to break the world’s record for retirees having first time criterion collection experiences in one week.
