Blog From The Bench

Had a blood-curdling moment today to add to the insult of having to work on Memorial Day--not that my company has any kind of anti-Yankee ideological beef with the holiday (that I know of), just that it's such a Scroogy place it wants to get all the work it can out of our hides...

I had taken in some DVDs to offer for sale to my coworkers. Strapped for cash, needing to clear some space. My fellow copyeditor reported to me a conversation he had with one of our coworkers:

Movie ignoramus: Hey, isn't that (indicating DVD) an old movie?

Copyeditor: Yes, it is.

Movie ignoramus: Why would they put a movie that old on DVD? Who'd want to watch it?

People like that scare me. I had hoped they were just a myth...but at least one is alive and well and living in this college town.