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Post by The Curmudgeon on Aug 27, 2014 23:03:02 GMT 2
Not trying to sound like Jerry Seinfeld here, but what is the deal with the people who shop in Walmart? That's obviously an enormous generalisation but there are entire (mean spirited) websites created that poke fun at the freak shows that shop there. We do not have Walmart, but it's just a supermarket, right? We have those. I've worked in a few over the years, and the UK is full of some walking horrors but nothing like this. touch.madamenoire.com/madamenoire/#!/entry/friends-don8217t-let-friends-go-to-walmart-like-this,534e6820b7d8d24162d6c780/3 It's like a mental illness parade. What is going on? Is it really like that? |
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Post by Ben on Aug 28, 2014 3:33:48 GMT 2
I've never seen anything quite as ridiculous as the creatures in those pictures at Wal-Mart, but I did once see a man snatch up a child who wasn't his and try to play it off like he didn't realize he grabbed the wrong kid. The sad thing is I think he was genuinely mistaken and not actually attempting an abduction. I've also had some interesting conversations at Wal-Mart. Earlier in the summer I got hit on by a girl who couldn't have been older than 13, and people sifting through the bargain bins of DVDs and CDs sometimes get chatty and start making recommendations. Wal-Mart is an odd place.
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Post by trashcanman on Aug 28, 2014 19:17:41 GMT 2
Wal-Mart is one of those companies that everybody hates. They're known for selling sweatshop merchandise, treating their employees like shit, and taking over every town in the country, pushing out almost every other store. And since their prices are inevitably the lowest and they stay open 24 hours a day, they are also famous for not having the highest class of clientele. Like, when the first Wal-Mart opened in my town, illegal immigrants would take their kids to the electronics section and they'd clog up the aisles just sitting there watching TV. I also served on a jury where a gang member jumped another gang member while in line there. When they opened a new store, they left the old one sitting right there in town like a giant corpse just so no competitors could set up shop there, and the area behind it became a homeless commune. The place just attracts this kind of stuff. It's not like you walk into Wal-Mart and it's a freak show all over, but you spend some time there and you'll probably see some fucked up people. Call it business karma.
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