Okay, I admit that I knew it was a porn movie place when I pulled in the parking lot but the story doesn’t start there.

“Oh look – a video store,” my wife said, pointing to a building on Leesburg Pike in Falls Church. I did a quick assessment. MVC Late Night Video. Blacked out windows above eye level, dirty parking lot, seedy strip along a busy road. Yep, it’s got to be porn.

“Did you know there was a video rental place there?” She asked.

“I think it’s a porn place.”

“No, they wouldn’t put a porn place there. It’s not hidden enough to be a porn place.”

“No, it’s got to be a porn place.” Men have a sixth sense about this type of thing. She should trust me on such issues, not challenge my authority on porn recognition.

A few days later I passed the same place on the way home from a student’s house and decided to poke my head in, so to speak. Pictures of bare ta-ta’s, vibrating everything and videos galore. Mom and Dad would be proud to know that I had the follow-through to put that mystery to rest.

Thanks, MVC, for keeping the landscape along Leesburg Pike interesting, if not wholesome or clean.

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