Posts: 508
From: Southend on Sea, Essex, UK
Registered: Feb 2015
posted September 26, 2016 01:11 PM
I have a couple of film lists that I occasionally look through. Still miss jumping on the phone and using the redial function till a familiar voice came on. The euphoria of actually claiming a title is remembered with pleasure to this day.
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
posted September 27, 2016 10:02 PM
For us here across the Pond there was roughly a ten day wait between finding we'd bought films and having them in our mailbox.
I always enjoyed the feeling of anticipation, and just when I'd half forgotten it was on the way it was waiting for me when I got home from work.
-a little lesson in patience for an age when they're trying to deliver pizzas with drones!
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...