Walmart Line Cutters
Date: February 21, 2011
It's a given that going to Walmart can be an experience - almost like a visit to a different world. As the popular site, PeopleOfWalmart.com, it can be a visual experience. Or a downright frustrating one as I had tonight.
I guess the wrong time to go to Walmart is around the dinner hour; while most establishments are quiet around this time, I found this evening to be a mess. I needed my special cat food - cats were down to stems & seeds (Yes, potential employersI I used the old stoner term 'stems & seeds'. Go ahead and test me - you won't find a trace of anything but maybe my diet pepsi I drank this morning). So we had a basket full of cat food, cat litter, trash bags, a couple of yards of fabric, and a few other necessities one can find at great prices at Walmart.
All of the self checkouts were closed, to my chargrin. There was a longish line of 10 items or less feeding into two cash registers so we hopped into the back of that. After a few minutes of enduring a man and his child, yammering in their native tongue, not respecting appropriate spacing between strangers in line, two other people of a far away land attempted to take cuts and get right in back of the person at the front register. Keep in mind this line was feeding into the TWO registers. I spoke up, which I always do, and with some muttering, these two losers got in back of the line. Then some CHICK DID THE SAME THING and I lost that battle. I was not happy.
Two words - WHAT GIVES? Six months from now when I am several pounds lighter and a lot nicer looking, I bet I'm listened to. I know it is bad but I've been on both sides of the obesity table and being obese, I am much more detested. I see that as a rant for the future....
Until then...