Downloads killed the video store

My mother occasionally laments that the real victims of the digital age are video stores. Apparently during my childhood, before we grew up and started illegally downloading films, the video store was pumping on a Saturday night.

This Saturday I decided to embrace my anti-social nature and spend a night in with Zeb the Wonderdog. Which we began with a trip to the video store. While there I saw:

• a mother with children
• an expectant couple
• one of the body builders from my gym
• a girl dressed in fairy wings and glitter with another girl in a sky-divers jumpsuit with glitter and a couple of other girls with less interesting outfit choices
• a couple of young guys
  

And I thought to myself - the video store is still totally popular with lots of different people. What on earth is my mother talking about? And then I thought about it some more and realised that the video store is really only popular with those who have one thing in common. Being responsible for young children, pregnant, unable to afford the carbs, or underage, all these people couldn't go out and paint the town. The fight against binge drinking is the fight for the video store.