Stan Marks wrote:
> ...and both instances were the result of inattention or misassumption
> on the part of the customer, not because of any deception an the part
> of Wal Mart.

This is exactly right. The fact that I got briquettes instead of lump did
not cause me to hate WalMart, it just took away my newfound reason for
loving WalMart. I already hated WalMart, but not for the reasons I'm
"supposed" to hate WalMart. I hate WalMart for the same reason I hate
K-Mart. The incredible masses of stupid people who seem to shop and work
there. Not that everyone who shops or works at WalMart is stupid, mind you,
but the ratio does seem to be overwhelmingly in the stupid's favor. I mean,
just driving through the friggin parking lot is an excruciatingly painful
experience as all the stupid moms and the stupid dads are walking shoulder
to stupid shoulder across the stupid parking lot completely oblivious to the
fact that someone might be actually trying to drive a car anywhere even
close by as they yell at their stupid fat kids to get back over here and
walk next to me or I'm not gonna let you ride the stupid horsie while you
eat your stupid McDonalds Quarter Pounder.

Of course, the fact that stupid me went and bought two stupid bags of stupid
briquettes thinkin' it was stupid lump doesn't exactly make me feel any less
stupid than the rest of those people.

*But*! That all being said, I don't hate WalMart for making the best of the
free enterprise system, or for selling goods for less than Mom and Pop sell
them down at Ace or wherever, or for giving jobs to people who need jobs,
whatever the wage or benefits may be. If they can get better they are free
to do so. I mean, lets face it, the cream of the workforce crop is
definitely *not* working at WalMart. Are they? Not at the WalMart where we
sometimes dare to shop. I would venture to suggest that WalMart is getting
what they pay for as far as employees are concerned.

And so did I, as far as charcoal goes.

Dammit, I hate WalMart!

--
The Honorable Reverend
Fosco Gamgee Whitfurrows
and his 6" boner

--Weddings performed for a nominal fee.
--Beer accepted in lieu of cash payment.

In article >,
"F.G. Whitfurrows" > wrote:

> Stan Marks wrote:
> > ...and both instances were the result of inattention or misassumption
> > on the part of the customer, not because of any deception an the part
> > of Wal Mart.
>
> This is exactly right. The fact that I got briquettes instead of lump did
> not cause me to hate WalMart, it just took away my newfound reason for
> loving WalMart. I already hated WalMart, but not for the reasons I'm
> "supposed" to hate WalMart. I hate WalMart for the same reason I hate
> K-Mart. The incredible masses of stupid people who seem to shop and work
> there. Not that everyone who shops or works at WalMart is stupid, mind you,
> but the ratio does seem to be overwhelmingly in the stupid's favor. I mean,
> just driving through the friggin parking lot is an excruciatingly painful
> experience as all the stupid moms and the stupid dads are walking shoulder
> to stupid shoulder across the stupid parking lot completely oblivious to the
> fact that someone might be actually trying to drive a car anywhere even
> close by as they yell at their stupid fat kids to get back over here and
> walk next to me or I'm not gonna let you ride the stupid horsie while you
> eat your stupid McDonalds Quarter Pounder.

And let's not forget the stupid/lazy folks who won't go a few stupid
steps out of their way to put a stupid shopping cart in the stupid cart
racks where they belong but will, instead, leave them ganged up in a
stupid parking space where *you* would like to park your stupid car!

> Of course, the fact that stupid me went and bought two stupid bags of stupid
> briquettes thinkin' it was stupid lump doesn't exactly make me feel any less
> stupid than the rest of those people.

I feel your pain, man...

> *But*! That all being said, I don't hate WalMart for making the best of the
> free enterprise system, or for selling goods for less than Mom and Pop sell
> them down at Ace or wherever, or for giving jobs to people who need jobs,
> whatever the wage or benefits may be. If they can get better they are free
> to do so. I mean, lets face it, the cream of the workforce crop is
> definitely *not* working at WalMart. Are they? Not at the WalMart where we
> sometimes dare to shop. I would venture to suggest that WalMart is getting
> what they pay for as far as employees are concerned.
>
> And so did I, as far as charcoal goes.
>
> Dammit, I hate WalMart!

Like I said, I feel your pain...

--
Stan Marks

A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Stan Marks wrote:
> And let's not forget the stupid/lazy folks who won't go a few stupid
> steps out of their way to put a stupid shopping cart in the stupid
> cart racks where they belong but will, instead, leave them ganged up
> in a stupid parking space where *you* would like to park your stupid
> car!


And we haven't even gotten inside the store yet. Aw man, I really kinda hope
they *don't* have a good deal on lump.

--
The Honorable Reverend
Fosco Gamgee Whitfurrows
and his 6" boner

--Weddings performed for a nominal fee.
--Beer accepted in lieu of cash payment.

"ceed"
<ceed@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqr stuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com> wrote
in message newsp.stgzazr921xk10@dellbob...
> On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 18:47:13 -0500, hello >
> wrote:
>
>> hello ceed,
>> i am in SA, is that brisket, ribeye, and lump sale still going on?
>
> I tried to e-mail you at the e-mail address in you have in your from field.
> Anyhow, I visited Randalls tonight. They still have brisket untrimmed at $.88
> and now also trimmed at $1.79. The Best of the West lump coal is now in their
> regular stock, at least here in the Austin Area. I do not know about SA.

No Randall's here in S.A. HEB has the market pretty much cornered, though I buy
most all of my meat at Costco.


T

> This is exactly right. The fact that I got briquettes instead of lump did
> not cause me to hate WalMart, it just took away my newfound reason for
> loving WalMart. I already hated WalMart, but not for the reasons I'm
> "supposed" to hate WalMart. I hate WalMart for the same reason I hate
> K-Mart. The incredible masses of stupid people who seem to shop and work
> there. Not that everyone who shops or works at WalMart is stupid, mind you,
> but the ratio does seem to be overwhelmingly in the stupid's favor. I mean,
> just driving through the friggin parking lot is an excruciatingly painful
> experience as all the stupid moms and the stupid dads are walking shoulder
> to stupid shoulder across the stupid parking lot completely oblivious to the
> fact that someone might be actually trying to drive a car anywhere even
> close by as they yell at their stupid fat kids to get back over here and
> walk next to me or I'm not gonna let you ride the stupid horsie while you
> eat your stupid McDonalds Quarter Pounder.

Education is the remedy for ignorance.

There's no known cure for stupid.


T

Awrite, I made a return visit otday to the WalMart jungle and have made a
decision. I *kinda* love 'em now. After I found my 10lb bag of lump for 5.97
and threw two in the cart, and picked up my 9lb bag of hickory chunks for
4.95 and tossed it in the cart things were moving along swimmingly and I
told my wife I was just gonna walk over here and get my daughter an MP3
player for her birthday. % minutes later the MP3 player was paid for and in
my hot little hand. 35 minutes and at least 4 trips all the way around the
goddamned store later I found my wife and charcoal. Holy crap, what a mess
that place is.........and since starting this post I have once again changed
my mind...........I *hate* WalMart!

--
The Honorable Reverend
Fosco Gamgee Whitfurrows
and his 6" boner

--Weddings performed for a nominal fee.
--Beer accepted in lieu of cash payment.

On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 21:36:06 GMT, "Tyler Hopper" >
wrote:

>> This is exactly right. The fact that I got briquettes instead of lump did
>> not cause me to hate WalMart, it just took away my newfound reason for
>> loving WalMart. I already hated WalMart, but not for the reasons I'm
>> "supposed" to hate WalMart. I hate WalMart for the same reason I hate
>> K-Mart. The incredible masses of stupid people who seem to shop and work
>> there. Not that everyone who shops or works at WalMart is stupid, mind you,
>> but the ratio does seem to be overwhelmingly in the stupid's favor. I mean,
>> just driving through the friggin parking lot is an excruciatingly painful
>> experience as all the stupid moms and the stupid dads are walking shoulder
>> to stupid shoulder across the stupid parking lot completely oblivious to the
>> fact that someone might be actually trying to drive a car anywhere even
>> close by as they yell at their stupid fat kids to get back over here and
>> walk next to me or I'm not gonna let you ride the stupid horsie while you
>> eat your stupid McDonalds Quarter Pounder.
>
>Education is the remedy for ignorance.
>
>There's no known cure for stupid.
>
>
>T
>
"If yer gonna be stupid, ya gotta be tough!"

Old divers saying.


Rick Simms

--
A pessimist believes all women are bad.

An optimist hopes they are.

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:07:27 -0700, "F.G. Whitfurrows"
> wrote:

>Awrite, I made a return visit otday to the WalMart jungle and have made a
>decision. I *kinda* love 'em now. After I found my 10lb bag of lump for 5.97
>and threw two in the cart, and picked up my 9lb bag of hickory chunks for
>4.95 and tossed it in the cart things were moving along swimmingly and I
>told my wife I was just gonna walk over here and get my daughter an MP3
>player for her birthday. % minutes later the MP3 player was paid for and in
>my hot little hand. 35 minutes and at least 4 trips all the way around the
>goddamned store later I found my wife and charcoal. Holy crap, what a mess
>that place is.........and since starting this post I have once again changed
>my mind...........I *hate* WalMart!

I've found that the simplest way to find my wife in any store is to
ask the nearest good looking and extremely well built saleswoman to
direct me, to some obscure item in her department, that I may be
interested in purchasing.

My wife seems to find me in seconds.


Rick Simms

--
A pessimist believes all women are bad.

An optimist hopes they are.

"F.G. Whitfurrows" wrote:
>
> Awrite, I made a return visit otday to the WalMart jungle and have made a
> decision. I *kinda* love 'em now. After I found my 10lb bag of lump for 5.97
> and threw two in the cart, and picked up my 9lb bag of hickory chunks for
> 4.95 and tossed it in the cart things were moving along swimmingly and I
> told my wife I was just gonna walk over here and get my daughter an MP3
> player for her birthday. % minutes later the MP3 player was paid for and in
> my hot little hand. 35 minutes and at least 4 trips all the way around the
> goddamned store later I found my wife and charcoal. Holy crap, what a mess
> that place is.........and since starting this post I have once again changed
> my mind...........I *hate* WalMart!
>
> --
> The Honorable Reverend
> Fosco Gamgee Whitfurrows
> and his 6" boner
>
> --Weddings performed for a nominal fee.
> --Beer accepted in lieu of cash payment.

You might invest $20 in a pair of FRS radios, they're great for keeping
in touch over modest distances like in a store. Otherwise there is
always the cell phone.

Pete C.

Pete C. wrote:
> "F.G. Whitfurrows" wrote:

> > player for her birthday. % minutes later the MP3 player was paid for and in
> > my hot little hand. 35 minutes and at least 4 trips all the way around the
> > goddamned store later I found my wife and charcoal. Holy crap, what a mess
> > that place is.........and since starting this post I have once again changed
> > my mind...........I *hate* WalMart!
> >

>
> You might invest $20 in a pair of FRS radios, they're great for keeping
> in touch over modest distances like in a store. Otherwise there is
> always the cell phone.

When I go to WalMart for myself, I go alone. When I go with the
family, I don't go for myself, and I stick with them. For those times
when we have to split up, we make a time to meet, and try to use cell
phones, although reception in there can be spotty.

- bc