Walmart and Pepper Spray

[sereneone4u]

One of my husband's coworkers was telling us a man punched a woman when she grabbed the last of some game while they were in Walmart in Tennessee....wow!

 

[TheCarver]

I'm a vendor and had to go to a handful of WalMarts this past Friday. It was my first time ever to experience a "Black Friday". All I have to say is shame on you America. If you find it absolutely mandatory to go shopping the day of or after Thanksgiving, you need to check your priorities in life. You are being manipulated and controlled by Corporate America and might even be aware of it while it's happening.

 

[sr71plt]

You have never been inside a Walmart???? Seriously?

Seriously. Neither a Target. I was overseas before Wal-Marts went international, and when I came back to the States, I didn't need anything they'd carry in a Wal-Mart. I do most of my buying on the Net.

 

[sr71plt]

Now my publisher is doing what most e-publishers do--buying photos off Shutterstock and other such places and using them for the covers.

Thanks, I haven't looked at Shutterstock. My publishers get their images off of 123rf and Dreamstime.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

You have never been inside a Walmart???? Seriously?

My mom makes a similar claim.

Of course, she leaves out the bit about how my father goes once a month or so. It's the true hippie-critical way.

I'd never gone until I was about thirty. Until then, I'd always lived in places either too rural or too urban to have one, or with zoning codes that essentially prohibited big-box stores.

ETA: Wait, that's not true. I went once when I was twenty or so, and needed a pair of underwear at 3 a.m.

 

[SydneyBlake]

ETA: Wait, that's not true. I went once when I was twenty or so, and needed a pair of underwear at 3 a.m.

Hmmmmmmmm.........

 

[SydneyBlake]

Seriously. I do most of my buying on the Net.

Even toothpaste? Razors? Cat food? National Enquirer?

And you haven't lived until you've seen a Walmartian.

 

[sr71plt]

Even toothpaste? Razors? Cat food? National Enquirer?

And you haven't lived until you've seen a Walmartian.

Toothpaste just materializes in the cabinet in my bathroom before I need it; I'm bearded and use scissors; the cats both died earlier in the year (six weeks apart, which was a tragic shock); and I didn't realize they still published the National Enquirer.

I've seen (and listened to) Walmartian types on TV. I'll pass. They're the sort of types I'd expect to see working in a warehouse.

 

[3113]

I'm bearded and use scissors.

Trim and sophisticated goatee...or are we talking full on, unabomber-in-the-woods type of beard?

 

[sr71plt]

Trim and sophisticated goatee...or are we talking full on, unabomber-in-the-woods type of beard?

Trim but full. First raised to be King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar in the Bangkok Opera back in the mid 70s. I liked not having to shave a couple of times a day and have left it that way ever since. Close cropped though.

 

[JackLuis]

This will frighten you, who ever you are!

Walmartians​

 

[SydneyBlake]

Trim and sophisticated goatee...or are we talking full on, unabomber-in-the-woods type of beard?

I like goatees. DH had one for a while, but had to shave it for work. I was so sad. It made him look like Lucifer.

 

[3113]

Trim but full.

Ah. So kind of Edwardian king-ish. The sort worn by all the rulers of the world just before they got into that little disagreement of 1914....

I like goatees. DH had one for a while, but had to shave it for work. I was so sad. It made him look like Lucifer.

Oh, yes. Goatees are wonderfully dapper and very "super-villian-ish." Also pretty good for mad scientists ("They call me mad! I'll show them!")

 

[sr71plt]

Ah. So kind of Edwardian king-ish. The sort worn by all the rulers of the world just before they got into that little disagreement of 1914....

Yes, just like that.

Oh, yes. Goatees are wonderfully dapper and very "super-villian-ish." Also pretty good for mad scientists ("They call me mad! I'll show them!")

I've never seen a goatee I liked. It reminded me just of that--a goat.

 

[trysail]

(I've always said that, in case of nuclear missile exchange, I want one of those missiles to land on my head...)

Don't worry, they couldn't possibly miss such a target.

Priceless.


Touché.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Even toothpaste? Razors? Cat food? National Enquirer?

And you haven't lived until you've seen a Walmartian.

I have only bought one pair of socks at a Walmart because it was there and I needed them. Other than that, there are closer places that I can buy better items at.

 

[SydneyBlake]

Also pretty good for mad scientists ("They call me mad! I'll show them!")

And so appropriate, since that's exactly what DH is. The first time he explained Molecular Orbital Theory to me, I came on the spot.

 

[3113]

And so appropriate, since that's exactly what DH is. The first time he explained Molecular Orbital Theory to me, I came on the spot.

Sly devil! What woman can resist that kind of talk?

 

[sr71plt]

Priceless.


Touché.

Ah, the backbiters are out in force today.

(You guys really lead empty lives, don't you.)

 

[SydneyBlake]

Sly devil! What woman can resist that kind of talk?

Absolutely ruthless. Puts me in the mood for some pi-bonding right now! Oh!

 

[Hotcappucino]

Police are now saying that the lady, instead of being an overzealous shopper, may have used the pepper spray in self-defense, fearing that she may be crushed or trampled by other shoppers:

... detectives have interviewed 14 witnesses and want to talk to 10 more shoppers. They are also examining store security video and a video posted on YouTube. He said people can be heard on audio from the video saying "I'm being trampled, I'm being crushed."

 

[3113]

Police are now saying that the lady, instead of being an overzealous shopper, may have used the pepper spray in self-defense, fearing that she may be crushed or trampled by other shoppers:

Fair enough...does that now make it the fault of the shoppers that they got sprayed, the store for not finding ways to keep people from squishing and trampling each other or back to her because she had to know she was going into a dangerous situation

 

[Dragonlipz]

Ah, the backbiters are out in force today.

(You guys really lead empty lives, don't you.)

You really shouldn't highlight their lack of humanity....but then, what the fuck, they're worthless anyway!!!!