Once upon a time, there was a young woman. Now, this woman wasn't very special. She was neither very attractive nor very intelligent. And she certainly couldn't make up for either with money or general likeability even. But she got by in the world, because on the whole, she preferred being a cheerful, optimistic person. But well, her real problem was she was as lazy as hell.

See, she sort of had lots of things to do. Which kind of included two essays and practicing her forensics pieces and not wanting to go to stage crew. And she was stressing about whether to quit her job or not, which caused her stress, the work, but she rather liked having the money. But she figured she could go poor for awhile, if she saved, and she could try to find a better job (though that would be unlikely.) All in all, she was sometimes happy and sometimes really miserable.

One of these miserable times was brought about when she couldn't get a DVD to play. It just wouldn't. She was sure it wasn't region encoded. It was PAL format, but she figured that that hadn't made much of a difference, considering her very brief search had told her that DVD players usually don't have issues playing both PAL and NTSC. This was the third time she had tried playing a DVD in PAL format, and it was the third time that it failed. And she was very angry about that indeed. And if the formatting wasn't the problem, then it WAS region encoded, and she felt too lazy to try to figure out if it was or not (which in and of itself wouldn't be too hard, she figured, but it was work she felt she shouldn't have to do.)

What she REALLY ENTRULY wanted was everything to be region free and the same format. It was very disheartening for the people who wanted to maybe watch FOREIGN DVDs and have to putz around with things that they shouldn't have had to putz around with, and everyone would be so much happier. She knew it all had to do with licensing rights or whatever, and that was all very inconvenient for her, because it negatively impacted the consumer, and instead of PROMOTING something, it actually encouraged people to NOT buy aforementioned DVDs, thus lowering multi-cultural exposure.


The End

I'd like to say she got what she wished, but I can't. That's also why I think "write what you know" is silly. Because it proves for a very boring story indeed when I do that,