II

"I work at a pawn shop, I smoke weed & I lick assholes." - An awesome person.

I really am not keeping up with this as I thought I would. It seems as of late(since I started this), nothing too incredibly interesting has happened. Maybe I've just become desynthesized to the world & the wonderous people & situations it holds.

The steady customer with the dvds came in again. Selling about 10 brand new dvds & four seasons of Two and a Half Men & King of Queens. Let's do mathtime with Mike real quick. Each dvd still has the price tag from wal mart on it branding each at $19.99. At $19.99 a pop that equals $199.90. We do a dollar a piece here & thats if we don't already have it in our extensive array of 4,000 something odd movies, giving her a loss of(drumroll plz) $189.90. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!! I really want to just tell her no. so maybe she'll stop mass usage of benzos & get her shit straight. Who am I to say this though.. I obviously have my shit straight.

Now you can imagine the kinds of people that come in here. We're walking distance from two trailer parks & directly in the path of a Texaco from these trailer parks. Not to stereotype but I see at least five people a day walking to & from their trailer to the Texaco, walking back with a brown bag or a case. Sometime's I(we) get the joy of these people coming in. One guy came in standing about 5'5 in height, about a buck forty in stature. He had a heather gray shirt sagging off his body with grease stains all over it, boots from the 1980s, & those wonderful, built tough, wrangler jeans. He walks in all smug, watching over his back like the man was after him, in his hands a brown paperbag. Now as soon as I lock eyes with this guy I figure he's going to try & sell me some alcohol. Fuckin' aye man. He comes up to the counter, still all smug, dead set on getting some money. He asks, "You guys do loans here?" I reply, "Yeah man, we most certainly do." He continues to dump out the belongings that were encased in the brown bag. What follows in front of me is a tape measurer from the dollar store, a used porno dvd, & a screwdriver. I stand there for the better half of five seconds in straight dis-belief, thinking to myself, "you've got to be fucking kidding me." He then tries to hustle the "goods" off to me. I wish I could put into words the looks this guy was giving. Wide-eyed, death stare is how I'll describe it. I told him we wouldn't be able to buy any of that. I mean you couldn't even give that off to a bum let alone sell the shit or get a loan on it. I told him we couldn't do a loan on it & he looked crushed.. which then turned to anger. The look he gave me after I gave him the news kind of looked like Pinky in Next Friday. The part where they're in the record store & Pinky has the gun to Craig. Dude threw his shit back in the paper bag & waddled off, out of the store, not so smug anymore. Haven't seen the dude since.

Speaking of pornos - How our system works for pawns is you bring something in here, we assess the value to us which is usually right around 10-20% of the price you can get it brand new or used. I.E. a television you paid $600 for, depending on it's shape, you'll get about $50 to $100 for it. $50 for a loan, $100 to sell. We go by months & we'll keep your stuff in the back if you pay the interest on it. So when people don't pay the interest on their goods or come back in to buy it back from us(plus the 17% interest) it becomes our property for us to sell also known as being forfeited. So today a portable dvd player came into forfeit. Mark opens the bag to find the black memorex dvd player with lotion(or something) covering it. He then pulls out about ten porno dvds & immediately drops the dvd player. Now, I know this doesn't sound like much but what the fuck? What kind of fucked up human being walks around with a portable dvd player & ten pornos, jerking off, then pawns it? That's nasty. And what's even greater about it is the fact that someone will more than likely buy this not knowing all the hours spent sewing seeds onto this great, portable dvd device. Included in the ten pornos was Cum on my Black Ass 9, Black Girl Gang-Bangs, Fuck me Harder 5 and Dripping Wet Black Pussies 5. I really couldn't make this up. Here's to humanity.