Are You Kidding Me?

Blockbuster cannot close. Seriously, does the home movie retailer understand what it's doing to our family? Our whole life centers around when Crew gets to go to Blockbuster and the number of movies he may get. Every challenge we have with Crew is resolved with a Blockbuster bribe.

Since Crew was little, he always had a movie fetish. We must own at least 200 DVDs and double that in VHS tapes. Crew writes on the calendar every week when he's permitted to go to Blockbuster. And every gift for his birthday is a Blockbuster gift card. Every new food that my son tries, we have to thank Blockbuster. Does the movie chain understand that a company like Netflix will not be able to take Blockbuster's place in the eyes of an autistic child? Does Blockbuster understand that picking out and physically touching and holding the movies in such a child's hands is part of the whole fixation? Crew knows when we walk out of the store that no matter what he will return because the movies from Blockbuster have to be returned, and that he has a guarantee to get other movies. How could Blockbuster do this to us? The phone has been ringing off the hook from friends wondering what Crew is going to do. He always says, "Bye, bye Blockbuster," when he leaves. But this next time it will be for good.