Has this ever happened to you?
 

So I'm in Best Buy recently and bought a wrestling DVD. The guy at the checkout line looks at the DVD and gives me the mother of all smirks like "you fucking loser, I can't believe you still watch this crap!" and slightly chuckles as he hands me the DVD in a bag.

Fuck that guy! :mad: Seriously, since I know a security camera somewhere would capture this, I feel like drinking a 5th of Old Crow and going in there again wearing a "It's Still Real To Me Damnit!!!!" T-shirt. I'll buy another wrestling DVD and go to his register. When he smirks at me again, I'll thumb him in the eye, pull him over the counter, give him a crotch shot followed by the figure four. "Whoooo, WWHHOOOOOOOO!!! Check that out fat boy! WWWHHHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" Then I'll blade and Flair Flop onto a shopping cart.

This guy's attitude is why I don't have any actual 3 dimentional friends to talk wrestling with and never EVER mention that I watch wrestling to anyone. Christ, I feel like a freak. Are we freaks? Should we be out growing this? Do you get strange looks buying stuff or wearing wrestling merch or shirts?

I definatly get strange looks. I always have when it comes to getting wrestling stuff. I actually do feel like a loser for watching and even coming to this website, but I still do.

Put your self in his shoes. Imagine someone who's never watched a match flipping through the channels and coming across The Boogeyman or something.

I don't buy wrestling stuff much anymore, so I'm pretty safe.

You should have told him to go fuck himself and you want to speak to his manager.

I don't buy anything either, but if I did...

I'm notorious for getting people to START watching, actually.

Speak to his manager? :lol:

Fag.

I used to work in a grocery story and some old lady told me to go fuck myself and then she wanted to talk to my manager. I guess I shouldn't have told her we don't sell that certain brand of olives. She was obsessed with this one brand of fucking olives.

The customer is always right. If she wanted them, you should have lied.

It isn't a large grocery store and I spent 20 minutes looking for that fucking brand of olives, and we didn't have them. I asked her if she had any other brand of olives she would like instead and she was hell-bent on those olives. I told her I would take her to the manager and talk about placing a special order for them and she thought I was being sarcastic.

Get a better job.

Yeah, this is true. Hell, sometimes I'm embarrassed at myself when I sit through stupid shit WWE dishes out and keep coming back. My roommate and I have lived in the same place for over two years and he comes home every Monday night after work and I'm on the couch usually watching Raw. Two years and not ONE word has ever been said. Usually uncomfortable silence mixed with avoiding as much eye contact as possible. I think the only time he ever attempted to look at the screen a while back was when Doink the Clown reappeared on Raw. That was the last time he's come near the TV on Monday nights.....ever.

No, mainly because I rarely buy wrestling DVDs at a store, I usually get them online. And when I DO buy them at a store, It'll usually be with at least one more thing. Once I slipped Forever Hardcore into a Walmart order.

Most times I buy anything wrestling related I get a look of indifference, as if the cashier couldn't give a fuck less. I got chatted up about ECW once when purchasing a DVD, but that's the occassion that was out of the norm.

As far as outgrowing wrestling goes, fuck that. I still like it to this day, regardless of how others view it. When I don't like it anymore is when I'll stop watching, and not a day sooner.

Wal-Mart's cool because you can check stuff out yourself, at least you can out here. Not sure if it's like that everywhere though.

It really shouldn't matter what other people are thinking about you if you actually enjoy what you're watching. If you're so ashamed of it, maybe you should reconsider watching yourself.

I admit wrestling is kinda geeky, but I'm never afraid to tell somebody that I love it.

I hope I don't offend anyone with this (like that's out of the norm on this forum), but we may be the nerds sitting at home watching big sweaty men hurt each other, while they're sitting at home watching Friends re-runs and reciting every episode from memory. Or watching the latest episode of The Simple Life and laughing at the hilarious highjinks of Nicole and Paris.

The moral of the story is that while we may watch shit, there is much, MUCH worse shit on Television right now that "normal" people watch.

Wal-Mart's cool because no matter how much worse wrestling gets, they can'ty look down at you for buying it. They work at Wal-Mart!

I've only ever seen self-checkouts at grocery stores. Never in a place like Wal-Mart or Best Buy.

That's why I quit 6 months ago. :p

This thread reminds me of a few months ago. I had to go with my grandparents to St. Lawrence University because it was my Grandfather's 50th Reunion, and I went to a few of the meals.

At one of them, we started to get to talking about what I like, what I'm doing, etc, and my grandfather blurted out that I like wrestling. Now, to give your a perspective on what I was dealing with here, no one at the table was under 70 and they assumed it was sumo and/or amature. I then had to drop a few names (Hogan and Austin), and my grandfather, who has taken me to every event I've been to (including the Supershow this Monday, as I need a ride and he can sort of get into it) dropped The Undertaker (I swear to you I would think TakerLover is his other bastard grandson) but that was pretty uncomfortable. Not because I was a wrestling fan, but because I was a wrestling fan among a bunch of old people who think what the media thinks of it.

Good points :y:

Xero, maybe it's just the Wal-Mart's in Southern CA then. That's where I usually go to buy toilet paper because I can check it out myself. Maybe it's just me (and probably is), but there's something uncomfortable about having a woman cashier hand me my asswipe. :shifty:

You are all forgetting the most important question...

What DVD was it?

The most recent ONS.

:lol:
Dink & Doink: A Retrospective

George the Animal Steele: Behind the Back Hair.

Divas: South of the Caribbean

What's worse than buying porn somewhere? Buying wrestling-related pseudo-porn.

:lol:

You'd probably be considered less sad if you walked up to the register with a copy of "Bend over boyfriend," a Jumbo tube of "booty lube," and a 14" dildo in harness.

I could imagine an interview with A-Train on that DVD.

"He really was an inspiration to all of the follicle heavy workers..a real trailblazer"

I'd laugh at people buying WWE DVD's too. But not in the embarrassing way but more in the "you still wanna give this fucker McMahon money?" kinda way.

Shut up Rob. You're posting on a wrestling forum.

This thread will turn into a UFC thread in 5...4...3...2...1...

That doesn't make the filling of Vinnie Mac's coffers any less retarded.

C'mon. Are you really going to argue that buying a DVD of an event that you enjoyed is laughable?

I bet Rob has at least one semi-recent DVD, and that will just make him a hypocrite.

The great thing about being "the customer" is that you can look that guy in the eye and say "What the fuck are you smirking at, faggot?" And he can't do anything. If you escalate him to the point of cussing back at you or even swinging on you, that bitch is fired, and you go home to satisfactorily watch your wrestling DVD.

Have some balls, man.