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Loading ...I got into a fight over a parking space today.
It was the stupidest thing in the world and had I not been hung over from the formal Christmas dinner party […]
Original post: Adventures in Walmart Part 3
I got into a fight over a parking space today.
It was the stupidest thing in the world and had I not been hung over from the formal Christmas dinner party […]
Original post: Adventures in Walmart Part 3
I bet V goes to WalMart just to get more material for her site. You’d think if she hated it that much, she’d go to Target. On a related note, has anyone noticed how all the crazies go to WalMart and all the normal people go to Target?
Yeah. I’m eagerly awaiting Walmart episodes 4, 5 and 6. The second trilogy is bound to be better than the first… this time.
I try to boycott walmart as much as I can, but it ’s just too tempting to go and see supposedly grown people acting like 2 year olds. it’s the most entertaining thing imaginable to see people make fools of themselves while thinking they are the most righteous beings alive.
target has a marginally more mature audience within its walls, and it has a better selection of products and more aesthetically pleasing displays, so I tend to do most my shopping there. but the entitlement whores hang out there as much as they do walmart.
both stores make for some entertaining shopping days :-P
Fuck Christmas? No, I think it’s Walmart that brings out the worst in everyone. Or simply attracts the worst people.
V, I love you.
Walmart is nothing more than giving your money to the Chinese, 500 trillion people, ya thinjk…come a war they wouldn’t think twice about losing a couple of million….. some day we will all be speaking Chinese. Can’t find ANYTHING not made in China. I’ve been shopping for my Grandson, and FUCK….it’s all made in China. Find a site for America Made, and lo and behold ……you PAY THRU THE NOSE! Didn’t stop me .. my grandson’s health is more important than MONEY! Watch out people…. English is going BYE BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
V, you could teach Suzi Quatro a thing or two about rocking hard.
V, have you ever considered stream of consciousness writing?
@6 if you’re going to spout your opinions all over the internet, at least make them appear somewhat credible. right now (and I’m willing to bet even more often than that) you just look like a pompous idiot.
#6, Lawson’s Gramma: “some day we will all be speaking Chinese”
Aren’t you the same person who 60+ years ago was afraid we were all gonna speak German?
And 40+ years ago afraid we’ll all speak Russian?
Do we? Huh? Huh?
Although, the 1.3 - 1.4 trillion Chinese have in Dollars is rather large sum. Should they ever get pissed off at US, they can flood the markets with Dollars and… yeah… buy buy English, welcome Mandarin/Cantonese/Hongkongese/Whathaveyounese.
Naw, that last paragraph is bs. The language is not going to change. (Although, from what it would change? There’s no official language in US. The two largest languages are English (majority) and about 8% Spanish.) Why should the language change?
But I completely agree. We should learn Chinese. (Mandarin and/or Cantonese) In few years most of the webpages come from China, so in order to be able to read most pages, it would be good to know Chinese. I can only surf pages in 5(ish) languages, which limits my surfing a lot.
Q: What is the most important language in the world?
A: The language your customer speaks.
Besides the quality of Chinese products is completely our westerner’s fault. We want quality and cheap. That’s why you have crappy service at AT&T. That’s why your iPod breaks down. That’s why you change your mobile phone so often. That’s why your minced beef shrinks to half when you fry it. That’s why it’s hell to call any tech support or customer service. And that’s why they answer in Mumbai. That’s why there’s aspartame in every friggin’ sweet thing.
When you buy cheap, you get cheap. Majority rules.
“you white trash piece of shit!”
It was going good until that point, I would have expected ‘V’ to just say one and two, then flick the woman off and keep on walking.
Christmas must really bring out the worst in everyone.
The trick to shopping at Walmart (something I avoid unless absolutely necessary) is to go on a week night about 30 minutes before closing time. That seems to work for me. I’m the same way, I only buy stuff for my cats at Walmart, not much else.
On the other hand if you go during the day you can always enjoy some of the sites only Walmart can provide. My favourites are; morbidly obese women wadling up the aisle with no way to get around them, young child throwing a tantrum (normally right in front of me in a long line and parent is oblivious to my discomfort) and the best is the old person who has no clue what they are looking for but walks super slow and has the cart strategically placed so you could never get by… as an added bonus if they find something they might like they will leave their cart in the middle of the awhile and stand to one side and pretend there isn’t 4-5 people waiting for her to get the hell out of the way… even if you say excuse me a bunch of times because old people are apparently deaf… ah.. that feels better.
The bitch who hollered at V was clearly in the wrong. However, she was obviously neither white trash, redneck, or hillbilly. She is worse. She is a “soccer mom”. If she were white trash, she 1) would have used vulgarity first and without removing the Marlboro from her lips would have launched an ad hominem attack “Hey yoo bitch, that fuckin’ parkin’ spot is mine!”
2) If the insult were returned then she would be forced to provide an example for her children as to the proper way to handle this situation. She would have thrown the half smoked Marlboro down and then would have proceeded to kick V’s ass… or at least tried.
3) At this point if she were redneck, her kids would cheer her on. If she were hillbilly, the kids would all pile out of the car and attempt to help their momma by initiating flanking attacks with whatever weapons were at hand. Rocks, bottles, teeth….
But you see V knows all this because she is white trash. No amount of money will change this. Neither will any amount of education. She could however seek refinement through ettiquette courses and charm school to cover “rough edges”. But no self respecting white trash chick would be caught dead “Tryin to put on airs.” “I got more money ‘an them! So if they thinks they bettern’ me, they can kiss my ass!”
As for me I embrace my inner hillbilly and relish the barbarous moments that I can descend into the primal violence of wal-mart parking lot alteracations. Afterall, I have to set a good example for my youngin’s.
-From the Ravings of the Psychomancer
#9 .. Wow .. didn’t know I was “spouting my opinions all over the internet” and would be called a “pompous ass”. I guess I’ll go back to just lurking
#10 .. 60 plus years ago I wasn’t around, but I’ll salute and say thank you to my Dad and all the other brave men who lost and risked their lives in WWII along with all the other men and women who risked and are still risking their lives for the freedoms we take for granted. NOW, back to lurking .. Merry Christmas
To Lawson’s Gramma - English is a required subject for all Chinese students - from kindergarden all the way through post grad studies. When I visited China a few years ago the only people I had trouble communicating with were those who were over 40 years old… everyone else spoke perfectly understandable English. So perhaps you should get your facts straight before you make huge assumptions.
I do agree with saying thank you to your dad and all other brave men who lost their lives in WWII. Visiting the American cemetary in Normanday near the D-Day invasion sites is a truly humbling experience. The thousands of graves there are of those brave men who never got past the beaches. Seeing those thousands of graves made me feel *unworthy* of the freedoms I enjoy as an American: those men deserve our deepest gratitude and respect.
“On a related note, has anyone noticed how all the crazies go to WalMart and all the normal people go to Target?”
If by “normal people” you mean elitist people who think they are better than everyone else and buy the same products that Walmart sells under a different brand, then yes.
“elitist people who think they are better than everyone else and buy the same products that Walmart sells under a different brand, then yes.”
that would be me :-P but, also, i have moral objections to shopping at walmart. i’m not tooooo very elitist :-)
“you white trash piece of shit!”
Uhmm, how does V know they are white trash? Unless, of course, she thinks all people that shop at Walmart are white trash, in which case doesn’t that mean V is white trash?
Dude… you just blew her cover!
Obvio…
#14 Lawson’s Gramma: “60 plus years ago I wasn’t around, but I’ll salute and say [lots of nice things, though irrelevant to the point]”
I feel I should not keep this discussion on. (Kicking when someone’s down?) Especially when I don’t know wether some facts (like 500 Trillion Chinese people) were just thrown in and deliberately hugely over-axagerated or if they really were real concerns. What the hey, I still do it. That kinda smart-alec I am…
Shall I pre-chew your steak also? Not a problem. I hope this is easier:
Aren’t you the same person who 1940+ years ago was afraid we are all gonna speak Aramaic? And then you burned your own capital?
That was a bit more concrete example for easy understanding, although not as applicable. Now go and use abstraction to all of these three examples! Ok… abstraction is not easy. Lemme help with my limited knowledge. For example a very crude and simplified form of it:
Fear.
=> Fear of being conquered.
==> Irrational fear of being conquered.
===> Irrational fear of being conquered and thus losing national identity, culture and language.
(And now someone smarter than me can correct my mistakes in this post.)
As an employee of Wal-mart, I can atest that every crazy fucking person in the area makes it apart of their daily routine to visit their neighborhood Wal-mart and meet the other crazy fucking people already there.
I try to avoid Wal-Mart, here in Virginia, as much as possible because the shoppers I’ve encountered act like they’re shopping at Macy’s in Beverly Hills. I have yet to come across a celebrity covered in camouflage, wearing 6″ nails with murals, or have mullets.
“I HAVE CHILDREN IN THE CAR! HOW DARE YOU USE THAT LANGUAGE WHEN I HAVE KIDS IN THE CAR!”
I can sympathize with parents that have a lot of kids because I have a lot of kids. However, I think using children as leverage for anything is a selfish act that devalues the child to nothing more than a bartering tool, and that’s pretty pathetic. Those types of parents deserve to shop at Wal-Mart so I don’t have to deal with them at the stores that I frequent.
Here are some points for those rednecks, soccer moms, and fat people:
1. I usually park on the outskirts of a lot because I can always find a spot, and in the time that it takes to circle the lot for a close spot, I’m already in the line to check out. I have yet to come across a lot that takes more than 2 minutes to cross.
2. Don’t snap another person’s balls for something that you laid the foundation for. The lady picking a verbal fight and then condemning V for the language looked ignorant, which is probably why she’s shopping at Wal-Mart in the first place. I meet more ignorant people failing in life than those who succeed.