My Queue

The weirdest thing happened. We have Netflix and it's great... Josh and I enjoy democratically updating our queue, trying to compromise when rating movies. Movies come to our door, we put them in the mail, and another comes back. Until last Thursday, when everything changed.

During Christmas Movie Madness, we were going through movies like hotcakes, or more accurately, cupcakes. Somehow, since the beginning of our subscription, two movies had been sent back, but never received. The first time I thought, how strange! The second time, I thought, am I doing something wrong? And when I realized that Netflix hadn't received yet a third movie, the Charlie Brown Christmas, I really worried. If we reported another movie missing, again, it was going to look very suspicious. It was suspicious.

Last Thursday, Charlie Brown showed up in our mailbox, with no red envelope. Just the movie, in the sleeve, in our box. But how? Was someone stealing, watching, then returning our movies? Was it our neighbors? Was it purposeful? Something isn't right here.

I told Josh that we needed to stop leaving the movies for the letter carrier to pick up when he drops off the mail, that we need to start putting them in the blue USPS receptacle. But that didn't work. Saturday, on our way to Rivalries, I had two movies in my bag. One was Joyeux Noel, the other Easy Rider. We hadn't actually watched either. For anyone who doesn't have first hand experience, the packaging you receive the disc functions also as the return packaging. To return a movie, you tear off the front, which has your name and address, slip the disc in, and it seals. Josh tore off the front and sealed both of the movies. I put them in a mailbox across the street from the Asylum. There, I thought, try and take my movies now.

I suppose one could argue that what happened next is possible. Maybe I was distracted, or tipsier than I thought, and maybe one of them fell to the ground, or wasn't sealed properly or my name and address was still on it. I asked Josh three times if something could have gone awry when we were sending those movies back, and he said absolutely not, he is totally, completely positive. He was there, he sealed the envelope himself.

Joyeux Noel arrived in our mailbox yesterday. It was in an opened, but the front had not been torn off, rather, just taped closed. Now, how did it become reunited with the portion that has my mailing address? Did someone commit a Federal offense to take our movies? Is someone screwing with us?

More updates to come.