George Sr. stared at the black screen. “So the pig is dead?”
Mary blinked. “Honey, we rented Babe from Blockbuster. It’s a DVD.”
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Missy crossed her arms. “Does this mean we have to wait three hours while your computer does math?”
Meemaw, passing by his door, mutters, “That boy’s gonna grow up and invent something that puts Blockbuster out of business.”
Then the screen went black, save for a blinking cursor that read: ERROR: DECODE BUFFER OVERFLOW.
Georgie groaned. “So you stole a movie from a store?”
