The pawn shop has been having an influx of merchandise lately, and I'm sure Christmas is largely to blame. My suspicions are that A) people spent too much money on presents and are now selling their things in order to pay back their Christmas debts, or B) people are selling the Christmas gifts they received but don't want. Maybe there is a hidden third option, but, either way, there are many, many new things to be sold at the pawn shop.
In the back room, one of my fellow employees was shifting through a stack of DVDs that were ready to be put out for sale. He then accused a newer pawn broker of buying pornographic movies. Intrigued, I approached the accuser and asked him what he meant. I was then shown three DVDs with covers that were covered with pictures of women in skimpy bikinis and Spanish words like "sexy" and "comedias."
I told him I didn't think they were porn. I agreed that the cover art was questionable, but they seemed a little too innocent to be real pornography. Also, the word "comedias" suggested against the films having hardcore content. The pawn broker who rang up the transaction for those DVDs said he didn't realize what he'd done, that he'd rang them up without looking too closely. He wasn't willing to voice his opinion on the matter. He just looked sheepish and avoided the topic.
We joked about taking the DVDs out to the show room and putting them on the TVs so we could figure out if they were pornographic or not. The pawn shop doesn't sell pornography, so, if we were to put them out for sale, we'd need to make sure they were okay beforehand. Of course, none of us took the risk of playing the movies. If we had taken the chance, they probably would have ended up being very raunchy. I could just imagine something really bad coming onto the multiple screens--Spanish two girls and a cup, perhaps. Children would have started crying and a mustached man probably would have approached us and asked how mcuh the DVDs cost. But besides the risk of subjecting our clientele to the most disgusting pornography available, testing the DVDs on the TVs would have removed Hilary Duff from our viewing pleasure. Yes, she is still playing on our TVs, and it only gets better everyday (see The Glory of Hilary Duff).
At the end of the day, I had the lucky task of taking out the trash. We have one extra large plastic trash can that we wheel out on a dolly, and tonight it was overflowing, but laying across the top of the cardboard, junked merchandise, and paper waste were the three "sexy comedias" with all of their bikini-clad mujeres. I told a co-worker that I still didn't think they were pornographic and suggested he take them home and find out for us. He seemed scandalized that I would suggest should a thing and refused. I ending up throwing them all away. Lo siento, mis amigas bonitas, but you're too risque for this pawn shop.
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