Nathan and I took the train up to Newcastle on Saturday. We had planned the trip the day before because we wanted to try the train thing out, and Newcastle is a bigger city only about 15 minutes away. The extra bonus was that Nathan got a reply to his "Wanted: VCR" ad (Yes, he's weird, and yes, he also still prefers cassette tapes to "these newfangled compact discs") on Gumtree that morning and the fellow with the goods was going to meet us there. Sure enough, we made the exchange with an older proper chain-smoking Geordie (a native Northeastern Englishman) who called me "Sweetheart" upon meeting and "Pet" when saying goodbye.
Since we'd already made the charity shop rounds in Newcastle, we decided to hit them all up again for VHS tapes. It seems that no one really buys VHS tapes anymore, so there were lots of great ones to choose from. We restrained ourselves and only got these.
You should have seen us on the train back to Durham, lugging more than 40 VHS tapes plus the actual VHS player in two very full backpacks and several extra shopping bags.
Against Nathan's wishes to sanctify me by forbidding me from organizing them, I of course was excited to order them according to genre. What he doesn't know is that I arranged them from kiddiest to girliest to manliest from the top left to the bottom right. He thinks I didn't organize them because I didn't alphabetize them, but he knows very little about the depth of my neuroticism and how far I'm willing to go to hide it from him. You can click on the actual picture to make it bigger and view our new VHS library.
And this? Tasty Fried Chicken. It's closed. Shocker.
2 comments:
Love the fact that you got called "pet"!!! Our cleaner at college used to call us that all the time - hope you could understand the guy's accent! Enjoy the videos!
U R RETARDED. Ok-I am a tad jealous because we are moving today and I need an organizer for my house :(
Love-Sis
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