When the music stops.. everyone grabs a chair"

[prometheus578]

"Let's play dress -up"

I had originally wanted to post an article that me brother sent me, but I guess I had deleted it. It t'was from a small hick town newspaper, and they were interviewing some woman about what she thought about the towns new Thrift Store.
"It's nice... they're friendly. What I really like is that I don't have to get dressed up to shop there, like I do at Walmart."
I'm sorry... But I 'member me Mutter making me change my clothes to go to K Mart!

[xs650mike]

Re: "Let's play dress -up"

Originally posted by prometheus578
I'm sorry... But I 'member me Mutter making me change my clothes to go to K Mart!

You're showing your age there Pro, or maybe your mother's age. SWMBO is from San Francisco, used to be a well-dressed town where men wore suits, ties & hats. She tells me that her mom, herself and her sisters were always dressed up when they went shopping, nails buffed and lacquered, hats and white gloves. I asked why the manicure if they wore gloves and she said she never understood that either. She's pretty fastidious to this day. I grew up in much more casual Los Angeles but I remember my mother making sure my clothes were in order before I went shopping with her. My father taught me to tie my own necktie when I was 6 years old, both Windsor and four-in-hand. I didn't have to wear a tie to go shopping though.

[prometheus578]

"There's nothing like a fastidious woman!"

I like women that take a certian pride in how they look. Once dated a girl that had the days of the week embroidered on her panties. I thought that was cute.
I then dated her friend, who's undies where stenciled January, February, etc.

[trbig]

Mike,

It's not the 300 pounders too bad here. If you want scary, go to a small town Walmart in Arkansas.... guys that have nothing on but a pink pair of flip flops, (Used to call them thongs as a kid.... but that has taken on a whole new meaning... ummm can anyone say Anal Floss??) and a pair of overalls only buttoned on one side showing their nice man breast, while discussing with their wife/sister the finer points of Jeff By-God Gordon, and Dale Jr's finer driving points that occured earlier and getting chips and dip (But nothing too crunchy because it hurts their TOOTH) for the upcoming WWF gathering at their trailer that they pay for in food stamps.(That wrestling is REAL, MAN... Don't make me fight you!) The reason Jeff Foxworthy's stuff is so funny, is because alot of it is so true.

*All points stated in this paragraph are not necessarilly the views of this website. This paragrah is fictional and any likeness of this story to true occurances is purely coincidental.... lol... OK.. almost typed that with a straight face...


Tod

[Pat Kelly]

I still have a working Pioneer SuperTuner with the round FM dial (no AM) and 8-track.
Down to 2 8track tapes. PinkFloyd Wish you were Here and Alice Cooper Welcome to my Nightmare

[xs650mike]

Sounds just like the Walmart in Clearlake that I go to. The women are all waddling around in shorts, t shirts and flip flops too. We used to call those "shower shoes" in the Navy. There are also a few of those skinny speed freak guys with all the Harley tattoos who are always talking about "When ah git ma Horley..." Of course they are living off the 300 lb. trailer trash woman with 4 kids who gets Aid to Dependent Children. The welfare reform plan that was passed under Clinton (Workfare) has thinned this sort of thing out quite a bit though. It's get a job or else. If you aren't available for work and actively applying for jobs, it's no more check and even then there's a time limit. Welfare is now temporary.

[mro]

where stenciled January, February, etc.

That might be just a little to fishy for me.

Lucky it wasn't done by year


mro

[trbig]

When I was younger, Gramma told me a story of her youngest (My uncle)... couldn't get him to change his underwear. Finally told him that he needed to put a new pair on every day or he would get the switch.... You guessed it. End of the week, he had seven pair of underwear on. He's in his 70's now and still a smart A#@.

Tod

[prometheus578]

I was gonna say that I'll stop in at Walmart on the way home from work tonight (to get a new CD player) to observe the denizens that dwell there and report my findings, but now the thought kind'a chills me.
But, I 'spose... if you can't laugh at yourself, you can always laugh at others.

[Jerry]

I still have a working Pioneer SuperTuner with the round FM dial (no AM) and 8-track.
Down to 2 8track tapes. PinkFloyd Wish you were Here and Alice Cooper Welcome to my Nightmare

Hey...that would go well with my office Marantz Stereophonic 2215B receiver. I just replaced the F8 lamps behind the dial, now can see the numbers again!



(Some of my patch collection in the background.)

[xs650mike]

Quadrophonic

Remember quadrophonic? I have a working Toshiba Quadrophonic sitting in the garage, been replaced in the household by a 5.1 system. All the Toshiba needs is one of the dial lights.

[prometheus578]

"Incredible, just incredible..."

Decided to stop at Walmart during lunch to check out the CD players. (I was having a bad day, and needed something to brighten me up)
There's nothing like viewing the "unwashed masses" during the middle of the day when good, decent, honest people are working. Now... it would be unfair to make light of the dregs of society, but... "Oh, the humanity"
These people mill about aimlessly like the mall scene in "Dawn of the Dead"! First slowly this way... then slowly that way. Knocking stuff offa the shelves and shuffling away, leaving others to clean up the mess they leave in their wake.
Little girl sitting in the middle of the aisle eating spilled candy offa the floor, while her mother stands by... reading a bottle of something to remove unwanted facial hair.
Two gangly sisters, with maybe three teeth between them, wearing "West Coast Choppers" T shirts. They should have used their money to fix their real "choppers", as now the spit just dribbles from the corner of their mouths down onto Jesse James' face.
I was stuck behind a rather rotund woman in one of those electric scooter carts for a while. She turned down the aisle that I had wanted to go down. I was going to follow, till I looked further down the aisle and saw another girth-gifted woman in a scooter cart heading up the aisle toward us! Not wanting to get involved in the "Clash of the Titans", I quickly moved off.
Everywhere I looked... more of the same!
Forgot all about CD players. Went home, reheated some leftover pizza and caught the last half of Jerry Springer before heading back to work.

[JWSanders]

Originally posted by prometheus578
There's nothing like viewing the "unwashed masses" during the middle of the day when good, decent, honest people are working.

The walmarts here are like that all day long. Only more crowded after everyone gets off.

And my friends wonder why I buy stuff online so much.....

It's like Christmas, only once a week a present arrives.

[xs650mike]

Dropped in to Walmart to buy a few things. Surprise surprise, the woman who waited on me in Automotive could not have weighed an ounce more than 230 lbs. A mere lightweight in the World of Wally. Many fat folks lined up waiting for the use of a little scooter thing, all in use. Place is mobbed. Pouring rain outside so there were no parking spots within 1/3 of a mile of the store. Cars lined up by the exit waiting for people. Big fat man with big fat wife and 3 big fat children. Teenage girl in hip huggers and short top, blubber oozing out between, rhinestone in her navel. Huge woman in electric scooter cart outside the entrance with an oxygen tank, puffing desperately on a cigarette. Someone forgot their register key at automotive so they couldn't refund my core charge and they sent me to customer service. 15 people in line at customer service and only 2 people behind the counter. The line didn't move for about 5 minutes and then started to move slowly. After another 5 minutes a woman comes back from her lunch break wearing not the normal blue vest but one of those maroon vests with more pins than a HOG member wears on his riding vest. The maroon vest symbolizes status as a "Super Checker" or some such. I suppose all the pins represent various milestones on the way to Supercheckerdom. Once she arrives the line starts moving rapidly and before I know it I'm at the front handing her my receipt. She has me on my way with my core credit in about 30 seconds. Super Checker! About 300 lbs. Saw several normal sized people, maybe 200 lbs. each and one guy who couldn't have weighed more than 110 lbs. He was about 6' 3" and maybe 92 years old, bowlegged, bolo tie, needle toe boots, big silver buckle and grey Stetson hat with an old western accent to match. Crewcut guy in front of me in line, snorting impatiently, about 5' 6" with big weightlifter muscles and a tattoo on the back of his neck that read "F*ck Off!" The place is so popular they could charge admission. Since there is no mall in Lake County, Walmart is where the local teens hang out but most all were in school at this time of day except for rhinestone navel who was with her folks. What a zoo...

[prometheus578]

Years ago, I used to take my boys downtown to watch all the aging hippies, and to throw rocks at the street people. I think I've just found a new pastime.
Does Walmart have one of those food court places... like K mart used to have... where I can sit, sip coffee and watch the third world pass by?
(Now don't get me wrong... I'm not in the habit of making fun of the less fortunate, nor overweight people, nor anybody else for that mattter. But some people, being it in dress or deed, seem to go out of their way to stand out in a crowd. I just give them the attention that they seem to be so desperately seeking)
Like the chunky "Goth" chick with the green spikey head. I'm sorry... but I love a good train wreck.
Remember a few years ago when the fad was to walk around in public wearing pajamas? (I almost went in for that one... but I'm a bed wetter)
Ya know, Mike... maybe having our parents make us dress up to go shopping wasn't that bad of an idea!