I think this is my best one yet.
We need stores that prohibit Christmas shopping. I just spent two hours trying to shop at two different stores for non-christmas related things (cleaning supplies, hygiene stuff, etc). I only bought maybe 8 items total, but by the time it was over I was ready to hit people. I have a question. When a person is driving down the street and they see something interesting, it's generally not a good idea to stop in the middle of the road to look at it. So what makes it okay with a shopping cart? Why do people not get it. You ask them to move, and they just stand there. How can these people have drivers licenses if they can't even operate a shopping cart?Then when you get to the checkout, there's the person who stands there doing nothing while their 83 items are scanned, then only when they are told the total do they begin to get out their wallet/purse/whatever. Shopping isn't that complicated people. If you want to browse the store I have no problem with that.
Just get the hell out of my way.
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Hmmm actually Elaine, you aren't really looking at things differently from what I can tell.
You sound EXACTLY like the lady from the Walmart commercial... and actually most commercials for cleaning products too.
Alright, what did I miss?
Heh, comments that bad they had to be removed? :)
I gotta agree with you- shopping near XMAS time for normal shopping, or XMAS shopping, sucks.
Hell, I could barely move in Canadian Tire the other day.
Good thing I'm almost done XMAS shopping - got a head start this year.
I'm just wondering who the comments were from in the first place :)
And yeah, Crappy Tire was one of the stores I was in last weekend and it was just crazy. Too much work for oven cleaner and light bulbs.
And to add to the Canadian Tire thing, the way they've redesigned it is really dumb. The rows go in all different directions, it seems like there's no order to it. Why did they change it in the first place?
The first one was from cousin Elaine, who said something to the effect of you should slow down and take it easy, and just consider yourself lucky you don't have to worry about doing 4 loads of laundry, taking kids to school plays, making dinner for a family, washing the floor and still having to shop, like some people do.
She then said that her son would have responded by saying "Gee mom, you look at things awfully differently than the rest of the world" which maybe explains why Heather and I frequently disagree with her opinions.
(All paraphrased, of course, and maybe I shouldn't because apparently she doesn't want it read....)
That triggered my response....
As for the other two comments, I have no idea and I can only speculate that they must have been penis ads.
Ah, that makes sense.
As far as slowing it down and taking it easy, that's what I do at home. When I'm out running errands I want to get what I need and come home.
She is right that having to deal with all the family stuff is much more to deal with. She won't get an argument from me on that. But in the scope of my life, that was a very annoying shopping excursion that I felt the need to vent about.
Besides, people who spend large amounts of time with me know that it's not the big, important issues that annoy me, it's the stupid little day-to-day things. Things like music videos that have credits, and people who feel the need to push lock button on their keys 8 times (and sounding the horn 8 times), just to be safe. These are the kinds of things that get me riled up.
I'm reminded of the Simpsons episode where the Simpsons are being cast to that 1800s reality show, and the casting people say something like "these guys are perfect, they fall to pieces over nothing" while Homer is curled up in the fetal position because his coffee hasn't arrived yet.
Nothing, I agree. Maybe the people in James way have brain injuries or are in the process of having a seizure.
There are lots of little day to day things that get in the way of unimpeded traffic flow in a store.
Oh and if you were shopping at Walmart (to take a kick at Walmart again) the aisles at Walmart are too small and have those stupid things in the middle of the aisle anyhow. I've heard they're designed in this manner to block traffic, so that you can't just "get in and get out"... SPEND SPEND SPEND James! Maybe you need to get mad at the store designer, cause really they're all to blame.
Actually Sara called it, I was at Walmart for part of it, and that was part of the problem (the narrow aisles). Although Walmart is not alone with the narrow aisles thing. Most grocery stores, department stores, etc are the same way.
I'm sure these people had perfectly good reasons for stopping and looking at things, that's not my beef. My problem comes from when people stop in the main aisleways to look at things at the end of an aisle and don't move their cart out of the way (into the aisle). There was even one woman who left her cart in the main aisle and proceeded to walk down one of the side aisles to browse.
I suppose I am being a bit picky here. People like to browse while they shop and I have no problem with that. Also, it's the holidays (at least the commercials are trying to tell me it is...I have this crazy thing called a calendar which tells me Christmas is still over a month away), and people tend to act more nutty around this time of year.
The only problem with the rational thinking that Elaine's talking about is that it gets in the way of my ranting. :)
I never said I'd never been to Walmart... I just avoid it to express my displeasure at
a) anti-union bullying/strong arm tactics,
b) putting small business out of business and thereby creating a monopoly, and;
c) their substandard and dehumanizing treatment of employees.
I'm also not a fan of
d) their stupid yellow dot advertising campaign
e) the people who I tend to encounter there and nowhere else (ie the dumbasses James is talking about and the parking lot pee-ers)
f) their tiny aisles
As I believe I said earlier too, if you go to Walmart, (which I sometimes have to do since I live in the epitome of a small centre, and most of the businesses actually have suffered from Walmart so there isn't much other shopping around) and buy nothing but the items that are on the endcaps you're actually helping put them out of business, so I engage in that practice (It's cheaper, it hurts their bottom line, everyone wins) Boycott Walmart, no. Avoid Walmart as much as possible and buy their loss leaders only, yes. Express my opinion that companies should treat their employees fairly and be socially responsible? Yep also guilty there. But, as I'm sure you all know I think EVERYONE should be socially responsible... not just Walmart.
As for beating you with a sign, Elaine, I'm actually against violence as a method of problem solving, even against those I disagree with, so you're safe.
As for agreeing on issues, I think we've agreed on many others... you just choose to look on the negative side apparently. Another example, aside from today: Gas prices and bitching on that topic. I believe we fully agreed on that one. Oh and George Bush... think we have consensus there too... I could go on if you're still questioning.
Don't feel too bad Elaine.
I'm sure she had tons of loads of laundry to do when she got home.
I always start getting mad at the little old men/ladies that insist on paying with exact change... but then I can't actually be frustrated cause they're little and old, and luckily I'm not.
Maybe old people should be banned from shopping.
Hey James --
I was watching the news, and I just had to say you should just trample people in your way. It seems to be the answer.
Apparently on Friday at the Walmart in Grand Rapids Michigan two people (one of them a 13 year old girl) got trampled on the hunt for low low prices.
Apparently another Walmart shopper who tried to jump the line in Orlando, Florida go wrestled to the ground and beat up by another shopper.
Anyway, I guess the people in your way need to just count themselves lucky that your solution is to blog nasty comments about them :)
What kind of person tramples another person to get a good deal on a DVD player? I guess low low prices make some people nutty.
Heh,yeah I saw that too. Did you see the woman who's wig fell off when she fell? She was scrambling to put it back on with all these people running around her. Very entertaining.
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