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I once rented Call Of Duty : World At War from a Blockbuster. Or maybe it was Hollywood Video.

Anyway, the disc was scratched to hell and and didn't work. I shrugged and told my friend that I couldn't play the 5 year old game with empty servers with him. I didn't have time to return it within the designated window. I ended up returning it a week late.

When I did, I told the dude that it didn't work. He questioned me as to why I kept it longer if it didn't work. I explained. He looked at me like I was a murderer.

Years later, I'm talking at LEAST 6 years later, I'm trying to buy my first house and I hit a snag because I had a ding on my credit report from the defunct company selling the "debt" I owed them to a collector. I ended up having to pay something like 500 dollars in "late payments" for returning a broken game to a dying rental company so I could buy a house. I didn't have the time, energy or resources to fight it.

To this day, I remember the name and face of the person I returned the game to who questioned me and acted like I broke his shitty old copy of WaW and reported it and almost fucked up my opportunity to buy my house. I pray that one day he walks into my brewery.