Wal- Mart Shopping Sucks...

[Deep C]

It wouldn't be a complete Friday without me bitchin or writing about the mudane intricities of daily life. Today was a land day. Chub Cay is closing in and the final rounds of shopping have begun. Normally I am pumped when Chub shopping. Ofeten fading off into a happy place thinking about raising blue ones hammering baits as I prowl the aisles. Sometimes though there is enough distractions to keep those memories from surfacing.
I started at Wal Mart... I have a contempt for the one nearest me. Most of them are busy places well stocked and well run. This one was built on the dark side of town. The place is a supersized one that is poorly stocke, always looks like hell and staffed by some of the worst staffers I have seen anywhere.
I hit the first aisle with cart in hand. I needed to get fresh pillows and cases for the V-berth I will call home for the month of April. I selected two pillows and turned to put them in my cart. That quick, my cart had been grabbed by some fat ***** who was too lazy to get one from the parking lot where they keep them. How do I know it was a fat *****? Cause I was the only caucasian slender male in the place. All the rest were fat bitches.
I got a fresh cart and started blazing a trail through the store. Some things they had but others they were out of. As I went I could see the land sows pulling stuff off the shelves and just drop it on the floor til they found what they wanted. without being a racist I just find such piggish behavior disgusting. I was over in the iced tea mix section and grabbed an extra can of mix. As I turned to drop it in my cart there was a chubby one walking away with it putting my stuff on the shelf as she waddled down the aisle.
I was no gentleman when I confronted her and took it back. Expecting security to be on me like a fly on stink I made tracks for the check out.There are 28 check out lanes in this place and only two of them open. The checkout chubby couldn't one item to scan... I wouldn'th have minded that she called for a manager price check except there were three more identicle items that she had just scanned...
Glad to be out of there. I was leaving the lot when I saw a scarry yet sad event. A very old man in front of me went through the green light but went too far and turned down a lane of oncomming traffic. Fortuanatley they all had good reflexes and brakes.The old man realized his mistake and started to panic. I could see him working feverishly. Light on and off wipers and washer going as he tried to find the gear shifter. He found revers but his feet were now confused as he hit the gas when it was time to brake. Backards over the curb he went. heading for a canal. Then he dumped it in forward and would have launched back into the flow of traffic had the sand not stopped him as he sunk deep in it.
I parked and walked over to help. I got the poor old fellow calmed down and then got some cardboard to put under his wheels fofor som grip. He got un stuck and cleared himself. I waited for the light and as I crossed the street back to my car I came within an inch of being squashed by a sherrif responding to calls about the old man.
Driving to my next stop my head was full of thoughts. About Florida and its diverse cultures. I thought about getting way old. How I don't look forward to a life like that. Lousy public transport forces the people who should no longer drive back on the road. It makes me sad to think this guy worked hard his whole life paying taxes only to be helpless in these late years. Then I get mad thinking about those same taxes and the fact they are manipulated to support those land sows who tossed the goods on the floor in the store. Most of whom have become victims of a system that is designed to keep them from working a single day of their lives...
There... Thats the rant for the day... Thank you...

[Capt_John]

My girlfriend works at the local Wal-Mart here. She tells me every night when she gets home how ignorant people are. Just today....someone changed a baby's diaper in the store and put the dirty one on the shelf. People bring their babies in the store under dressed. Then go to the kids clothing.....try them on the child....rip off the tags and try and sneak out. How bad is that? Not only stealing,but teaching the kid as well. And believe it or not, she gets the most trouble from the rich,older ladies fresh off the golf course...who think that they can talk to and treat her any way because she works at Wal-Mart.

[OffTheHookB&T]

Hey Deep find your happy place, think of all the bills your gonna raise in Chub, next think ahead 2 months and think of your friend Mr MAKO, now how you feelin
Paul we have a Wal Mart thats been built for a year now and the incompetents in New Jersey didnt get the road project completed to spec and now have to redo the roads just for the empty store just remember you live in Fla. could be worse you could still live in Jersey still

[Deep C]

My girlfriend works at the local Wal-Mart here. She tells me every night when she gets home how ignorant people are. Just today....someone changed a baby's diaper in the store and put the dirty one on the shelf. People bring their babies in the store under dressed. Then go to the kids clothing.....try them on the child....rip off the tags and try and sneak out. How bad is that? Not only stealing,but teaching the kid as well. And believe it or not, she gets the most trouble from the rich,older ladies fresh off the golf course...who think that they can talk to and treat her any way because she works at Wal-Mart.

Most Wal Marts I have been to are ok places... I like the friendly staffs but this one is a trip through helll...
I know about the golf course ladies. They live here closer to home. Chewing the grocery store clerks a new one... I laughed my scuppers off at one today. All dignified and proper in her laCost aligator shirt and Lily Pulitzer dress. All kinds of stuffy until she dropped her 12 pack of Heinekens and was too blasted drunk to bend down to pick it up...

Chuck
No down feelings today. Just recounting a couple hours in the world of Deep and sharing a view about things in general. Chub came shining through at the other stops though... I may have FDlorida but you got Grady and the "Best Kept Secret..."

[gradywhite273]

i didn't know they would let walmart in Palm Beach

[Double D]

I thought about getting way old. How I don't look forward to a life like that.

I spent my evening with an old neighbor who turned 90 today. This is a guy who bought his first boat when he turned 85, and has been a terror on the fluke ever since.

Last year I pull up to see him struggling with something while walking towards his garage. Turns out his outdrive "needed to be painted", so he removed it and carried it to his workbench. He took every spot of paint off until it looked like it was made out of stainless, then primed and painted it better than new. I made him let me carry it back and I think I threw a disk

When I need a part fixed I hand it to him and in a day or 2 it is good to go. He has made me heat exchangers, gaffs, gin poles, tools and many other items. He was a machinist for 50 years. Born in 1917, remembers his uncle's funeral from WWI when he was 2

This is the first winter in 29 years he hasn't driven to Florida, because his wife is sick. He is taking care of her, but I think he is climbing the walls

I know he is the exception, but he gives me hope that I can still carry on instead of having trouble finding the gearshift

[striper101]

Paul we have a Wal Mart thats been built for a year now and the incompetents in New Jersey didnt get the road project completed to spec and now have to redo the roads just for the empty store just remember you live in Fla. could be worse you could still live in Jersey still

Chuck,
I noticed that yesterday when I took a run to Lowes.

[Talbot29]

I haven't been in Walmart in years and plan on keeping it that way. Why encourage their business? It's like a cult, but without the interpersonal friendliness thing. The largest company in the world and

Visit your neighborhood tackle shop/grocery store!

[Squidnation]

I sent this story to a few guys via pm. figured this is as good a time to share it as any.

I am waiting for the wal mart in China to open. It is call Carrfor in china. 8:00am and doors open at 8:30. Well I look behind me around 8:25 and find out that 200 or so chinese elders with the average age of about 78 have gathered around me waiting for the store to open. At 8:35 the doors open and I feel like I am at the gate at pimlico during the Preakness. 200 70plus year old chinese folks are stomping on me like a kid at a WHO concert. I mean they are checking me into the walls. pushing my big ass to the floor. Well I finally get up and brush the cart wheel tracks off my back and head towards the rear of the store to find out why they would risk crushing a fatsh&t like me to the ground in their quest...........EGGS ..... FRICKEN FRESH EGGS AND PEAS. Nice place to visit but I am sure glad I am home.

[capt. woodward]

Fortunately we don't have the super wallys back home. Never understood the discount store mentality, until I visited a Sam's Club and then a COSTCO in Seattle. I'm not in favour of either one, but COSTCO seems to be more well balanced and not totally dependent upon Chinese Commie goods.