Let me start out by saying that I am feeling completely uninspired today but that might change as I start in on my blog. I am blaming my cold and the promise of more snow.
Today is a rant day. Well, I think all of February will be rant month. Wal-mart makes me want to rant. I am not one of those “ban wal-mart because it is an evil soul sucking world destroying monster” or “wal-mart kills all the fluffy puppies, fuzzy kitties, beautiful flitting buterflies” people. I know it has various ill effects on our economy and it is a large soulless corporation but honestly I don’t care. It is convenient (kinda), cheap (kinda), and well stocked (kinda) so I feed the machine and do most of my shopping there. I feel no guilt. I live in Chickasha, Oklahoma so my options are limited. I go to the evil wal-mart or I shop at one of the crappy other groceries that are more expensive and have less variety. I might be more willing to be more like a dirty hippie with my shopping if I lived in a major city. I just cannot see spending more gas to go to a major city for a whole foods or whatever it is that the tree huggers say I should shop. I am just a terrible person and I am okay with that.
Anyway, I have many many wal-mart pet peeves and one day is probably not enough but I will attempt to list a few and maybe promise more later.
1. Twats on cellphones: I am not saying no one should talk on cellphones in the super wal-mart, I just think they should be more aware of their surroundings if they do. I keep all wal-mart phone conversations short and try to notice people around me. I try not to be one of the two types of twats on cellphones.
The first type is the person who is obliviously wandering around moving really slowly taking twice as long to make decisions about purchases and runs into things because they are completely incapable of multitasking. I want to shake these people. If you cannot function at a minimal level (read: that of an amoeba) please go park yourself at some little used part of the store (read: lamps or lawn and garden) and stay there until you are done. I know that this means you won’t be getting your shopping done at the same time and it might make your wal-mart trip take longer but it will also reduce your chances of harming yourself or others.
The second type of twats on cellphones are the the people who share information like they aren’t in public. I think people answer their phones and forget that they are actually still in a public place and should have conversations accordingly. Anyone who knows me knows that I will talk about just about anything just about anywhere but there are something even I don’t see as appropriate. Also, since the twat is on a phone they speak louder than they would if they were talking to the person beside them. This means you get a woman talking about her last pap smear in public in a loud voice. I might tell a friend a private detail (probably not about my pap smear) in wal-mart but I would say it in a quieter tone.
Okay, brain tapped out… maybe more later.
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