The most expensive movie rental ever

Last week my flat mate Becca and I rented a couple of movies. One was some cheesy romance that sucked and the other was a movie about Bettie Page, which was pretty lackluster. We watched it on Wednesday night and went to return it on Friday only to discover that it was missing. We asked everyone in the apartment and everyone swore up and down that they hadn't touched it. We searched every where and it was nowhere to be found. Bettie Page just magically disappeared into thin air. The problem with this was that we rented the movies on another friends account. 

So today Becca and I went to the video store to see how much it would cost to replace it. On the way in I jokingly said to Becca, "What if it's 5000 yen($50)?" Becca laughed saying there would be no way, I agreed. It must've been the first time anyone had ever lost a DVD because the clerk involved every employee in the store, all of them looking quite distressed at this tragedy. Then I see one of them write 10,000 yen($100) on this form and I whispered to Becca that it was going to cost 10,000 yen. She was in denial for a second until the clerk said it out loud. Oh and they threw on a late fee too. So, a movie, made by HBO, was going to cost $102. We told them we would look for it again and come back. They gave us a month to return it and said there would be a $2 late fee everyday. 

Becca and I sat outside of the grocery store for an hour going through all of the possible scenarios of where this stupid fucking movie could have gone. We grilled all of our roommates and everyone adamantly denied removing it from the DVD player. We got home, filled with rage, mostly because it made no sense and because of the fact that we were going to have to pay for this stupid movie. We saw one of the roommates and asked her again if she had seen it. She said no. 

An hour later, Becca went into their room and grabbed the second DVD case out of her pile and guess what was in it??? The Bettie Page movie! This is after she repeatedly said she hadn't seen it! Becca came running out screaming and I joined her, jumping up and down throwing ourselves around the flat. We almost paid $100 for a DVD that was sitting in the next room the whole time. We think she just took it out and wasn't paying attention and mistakingly put it in her case. But for the love of Christ! Becca and I were full of rage for a good couple of days, especially the last couple of hours. 

What kills me is why the hell was that movie $100! Japan is so damn expensive and sometimes I think they do it to torture foreigners. I can't wait to come home!!