Last week Carrie and Clara were sick, so Carrie’s parents came and took Maggie for a few days. It was tough, we’ve never been away from Maggie before. We got over it quickly though… it was like a vacation! The house was so quiet! So we rented a movie for the first time in months! We rented No Reservations, which was cute, and the new Die Hard movie.. which I liked :).
What we rented and the fact that we rented is not the point. What was cool was where we rented. We went to the Redbox.
For those not in the know, Redbox is this new thing that keeps popping up in grocery stores and places like McDonalds. We have 3 of them here in State College, so as far as I’m concerned, they’re everywhere. But all you do is go there, swipe a credit card and get a movie. Easy. What makes it better is that you can go online and see what’s in the box and check it out. Then you just go there, swipe the card and it spits it out at you.
And it’s cheap too, a buck a day. Return it by nine pm or you pay another buck. Blockbuster no longer has a return by date… so they can charge you more. I don’t need it for two months, or two weeks even. Sometimes I want to rent a movie and watch it. Boom. One dollar. Nice.
So check it out, it a good thing. Check out what’s in the box.