And no, there is nothing the employees can do about it.

The following are things you should keep in mind before you verbally abuse the employee for not having the movie you want.

If you visit your local movie rental establishment and you are looking for a movie that came out very recently, that is within the last couple of weeks, there is a good chance they will not have the movie you are looking for.

This is especially true if you are coming into the establishment on a Saturday. Friday is one of the biggest days to rent movies and any movie rented on Friday is not due back Sunday or even later. So by Saturday night all of the new movies will have been rented out Friday and not be expected to come back soon.

In order to meet demand rental companies would probably have to have 1000 copies of each of the most recent titles. Of course the demand for that movie will only last a couple of weeks and after that time the store will have to find a way to get rid of 1000 copies.

I do realize that today is Valentines Day and many of you are looking for a copy of The Notebook. Since today is Valentines Day there is not a chance in hell any rental store will not have it. However seeing as The Notebook is a romance movie you can pick any damn romance movie and will be the same damn thing. All romance movies are the same. Guy goes after girl, girl at first resists, couple falls in love, one or both their families protests and tries to break them up, they go against their family’s wishes, get married and finally die together. This is they same store are it was written hundreds of years ago when it was called SHAKESPEARE. (Click on Readmore/Comments to read the rest of this rant)

Just because the movie you are looking for is not on the shelf does not necessarily mean the store does not have the movie, there is a chance they have it put have not put in out on the shelf yet. Before you start to bitch and moan about how the store does not have the movie the least you could do is ask the store employee if they have they have one that is not on the shelf.

Most rental stores with the exception of small mom and pop stores probably do not have the ability to decide how many copies of each movie come in so they it is not their fault they do not have a copy to give you. And if you are wondering, no they do not keep a pile of copies of the movie you are looking for just to spite you.

If you are asking the store employee for a movie there is a good chance several other people have asked the same movie before you. If that is the case they have also probability been yelled out by several other people about why they do not have the movie. There is nothing the employee can do about the movie not being available; they cannot put a movie you are asking for out of their ass so you can rent it.

So if the next time you go into a movie rental store and the movie you are looking for is not on the shelf, DEAL WITH IT.