"'Nurse Betty', Have you seen it?"

Don't ask. Just check again when she leaves, if you must.

It's only happened twice now, but both times I thought it was rather rude. Tonight I was standing at a Redbox waiting my turn to pick up the movies I had reserved online. The man in front of me returned his movie and walked away. His movie was rejected from the slot; something was wrong with the way it went in, so I tried to return it again for him. It didn't work, so I grabbed his DVD and ran it back to him before he pulled away in his car. Well, when I got back to the machine to swipe my debit card, a man at the machine next to me asked me what movie I had returned. Maybe I'm being silly, but that seems like a personal question. What if I had rented some kind of T&A film that I didn't want to admit to having watched? I would be left with only uncomfortable solutions to the predicament. I could be honest and tell him which shameful movie I had watched, or I could lie and tell him it was "Fill In The Blank Here With Name Of Innocent Motion Picture", (but that would only work if my brain was fast enough to come up with an appropriate title), or I could tell him it's none of his business. I would be uncomfortable with any of these options. Thankfully, I have never rented questionable films from a Redbox, (not that you can get movies of the adult variety there), but even things that are simply rated R or even PG-13 can be horrific these days. Also, keep in mind that we are in Utah where all of us Mormons can tell a "member" from a "non-member" with pretty decent accuracy, so even if you had rented a movie that was rated PG-13 for language or war violence, you could still receive some pretty hefty judgement for it. Radom strangers can be ruthless. So the bottom line here, folks, is that asking stangers at the Redbox what movie they rented could be considered a rather personal question. And for those of us who want to point this out to people next time it happens, we may need to come up with a prepared answer in case we meet another nosy viewer at the kiosk. I think that from now on, whenever someone asks me what movie I returned, I'll tell them it was a documentary called "Mind Your Business" and they would probably really like it.