I think I just made a couple of clerks' days...

[Concillian]

One of my cousins has (maybe had) the habbit of misplacing every cover for every cd/dvd he owns, thus his cds/dvds are strewn about the room without any care (usually not on the floor though). Him being a smoker probably doesn't help their condition any. He just doesn't really care all that much about their condition as long as they work.

Yeah, I think most of the people who rent a significant number of DVDs or games have kids. And kids have a different procedures for DVD usage.

While you or I may go:
Remove DVD from case
Place DVD in player
Watch DVD
Remove DVD from player
Place DVD in case

I think kids go:
Remove old DVD from player
place it on top of the stack of other DVDs removed from player in the last 6 months
Remove DVD from case
Place DVD in player
Place case in obscure location mom or dad will have trouble finding when it's time to return DVD
Watch DVD
Leave disc in player until you want to watch something else
Flip through huge pile of discs with the "52 card pickup shuffle" method of finding the disc you like
Remove DVD from player
Place in DVD pile
Place new disc in DVD player
repeat last few steps 3 more times in the next 24 hours

voila!
rental DVD scratched to hell.

My brother in law's kids do almost exactly as I listed (ages 9 and 10)