(written 1.5.06, 7:45pm) So the other night when I stayed in Dublin to babysit the little boys, Ted and Shaun had a DVD accident. (This is because 1. you can’t rent DVDs without having a utility bill, in this country, and 2. because it is only very slightly more expensive to buy DVDs than to rent them. (Really. The big chain video store’s got DVDs for sale all the time for like E7.99 or 3 for 25 or 2 for 20 or this or that, and it costs E5.25 to rent a DVD for one night. So hell, you watch a movie twice and it’s cheaper to have bought it. But none of that is the point.))
When I came home to see the DVDs they’d bought, it struck me as really funny, because they’d gotten such *guy* movies. They got The Rock, Unbreakable, Equilibrium, Time Bandits, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and I, Robot. Now, none of these are movies I object to watching repeatedly, but they just struck me as being *totally* guy movies. I commented on it.
The next time they came home with DVDs, they had Sahara, Van Helsing, and had thoughtfully gotten me a girl movie, Roxanne. *laugh*