"Then what about my predicament?  Am I free then?" asked
Theodore, very anxious in anticipation.  Perhaps his slate would be wiped 
clean!  
	"Of course not, sir.  As you yourself said, you were told that you 
have an overdue video that you need to return to us, and a large late fine to
pay.  You do admit you said that, sir?"  
	"Well, I certainly did say that that's what someone told me."
	"You don't expect that they were lying, do you?"  
	"Well... they may h--  no, I suppose not.  What, then... you see, 
I'm very confused - I was always under the impression, perhaps, that I 
had a firm grasp of the normal day to day order of things - now, obviously 
I was partially ignorant, though I still don't like to assume that... but, what
I want to ask is: what do you recommend I do?"  
	"I don't see why you're asking for a recommendation from me.  I 
could recommend a good drama or a horror flick, but I don't expect you to 
think that I'm good for giving advice on such a level as this.  But, I do 
suppose you should heed the advice of the telephone call you received,
whatever it may have said.  That's probably a thing you could do.  But 
really, I wouldn't know."
	"OK.  Well shoot.  Anyway, thanks."  Theodore resigned.  What a 
bizarre, fantastic system, this was.  He knew, he was just so sure of it, that
he had in fact turned in the movie, but it made no difference!  He was 
growing quite desperate, searching his head for any possible ideas.  He 
thought about going to a video-retailer and purchasing a few films, ones
that might possibly be the one that he had lost, or rather, the one that the 
movie store said that he had lost.  But why should he have to?  It was the 
video-rental store's job to purchase new movies, not the customers.  That
was the antithesis of his purpose.  "I may as well, though.  What else can I 
do?"  He called that very evening.
	"Hello.  A while ago I received a telephone call stating that I forgot
to return a rented video that I rented nearly a year-and-a-half ago, and that 
I needed to pay an exorbitant fine.  I was not told which movie I did not 
return, but regardless, I don't believe that I actually forgot to return 
whatever video it may have been.  I am willing to put that argument aside.  

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