What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

[dh66]

long lines of demoralized, hopeless worker-drones. It is a uniquely joyless place.

Well, there's that too.

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[dh66]

And sit in the recliners?

I used to, but they started putting them up on the high shelf. I guess too many other people were too.

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[dh66]

Writing on the seat of pants.

Pants worn with the crotch around ones knees.

The lack of underwear with a skirt above the knees. Add in the total inability to get in or out of a car gracefully and sit with your legs closed.

How 'bout a lack of underwear under pants with writing on the butt (I think it said "hoochie") worn with the crotch between her knees.
Nothing like a mess of @ss cleavage in your face in front of you in line at the walmart.

To her credit, she probably didn't come in with'em that low, but that's how they ended up when her fat, lazy @ss came up off the motorized wheelchair/shopping cart thingy that w-m provides for it's handicapped patrons, none of whom can ever use them because they're all being used by fat ****s who are just too lazy to walk.

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[Gregg Axley]

I used to, but they started putting them up on the high shelf. I guess too many other people were too.

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Oh now it's become an adventure in climbing.

See, we go to Walmart at 7am, and we are out by 7:30.
As the ne'er do wells are coming in, we're driving away.
It's a pain getting up at 6am when the only place you have to be is Walmart, but it's a system that works for us.
As for shopping near the holidays, unless it's food items, we buy online and have everything shipped.
No crowds, no coughing kids, no fighting for parking spots.
But, we also support local stores, because of the impact Amazon has made.
We just go early.

 

[dh66]

Oh now it's become an adventure in climbing.

Depends on how many beers I've had

You're going much to early for the free sideshow. I like to roll up in there about 10 or 11 at night myself. Sometimes Saturday afternoon can be entertaining if you have a few hours to waste. The absolute worse time to go is after work, that's when Lizzie must be going, that's when the supercenter gets super crowded and everyone is all tired from work and pissed off to be there. I think it is also the time when the most cashiers go on break.

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[V.C. Brunswick]

Damn! I must be going to the wrong Walmarts. There's three right near me and I have yet to see a real live Walcreature. I feel cheated.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I can think of no circumstance on earth that would get me into a Walmart at 11 at night or 7 in the morning. It's a profoundly depressing place for reasons that have nothing to do with the people who shop there -- it's the utter mercenary soullessness of the place itself that I can't tolerate. It's like some kind of perverted church where modern society worships its Chinese-made false gods -- and pretty much all of the people who shop there are those Nice Respectable Well-Dressed Middle-Class White People, who would knife you in the back if you got between them and their marked-down 56-inch flatscreen.

The store I'm scared to go into is our local Rite-Aid, where they have a big display of tiny bottles of liquor for sale to desperate alcoholics. They don't just attract such people, they seem to deliberately prey on them.

 

[dh66]

I can think of no circumstance on earth that would get me into a Walmart at 11 at night or 7 in the morning.

You don't have any kids, do you.

I have no love for w-m, nor what it has wrought on the economic landscape of small town America (much less the rest of the world) but unfortunately for some things there's just no other option.
I try to find the silver lining. Sure, I don't want to be up in walmart at 11 at night hunting gas drops for a colicy baby who's screaming and won't go to sleep, but then I would've missed a good cat fight between a couple of Amy Winehouse wannabe Mexican transvestites over by the beer aisle. That beats anything you can get on pay-per-view hands down.

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[CataWhatas]

Any store between 11 pm and 6 am is packed with (store of choice) creatures. But mine is a CVS run because my boys follow the nearly universal child law that they are normal, rowdy kids during daylight hours, but are running 103* fevers and can't swallow from the strep infection at midnight, so off to ER, then CVS for medication.

I will tolerate being entertainment if it makes my kids feel better.

Another questionable trend is the odd acrylic nails where they have round blobs built up, or really wide ends. Or just extremely long. I have to wonder how one can do anything with those nails.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I have no love for w-m, nor what it has wrought on the economic landscape of small town America (much less the rest of the world) but unfortunately for some things there's just no other option.

And there's the rub. When I need buttons or a zipper for clothes I'm making, I have the "choice" of driving thirty-five miles to a fabric store or going across town to the Supercenter. Hooray for modern capitalism. We have a swell town here since Walmart first arrived twenty years ago. There's forty different places where you can buy a I HEART MAINE bumper sticker or an Andrew Wyeth refrigerator magnet or an art print that'll make all your friends think you're cultured, but there's only one place to buy a spool of thread, and it's You Know Who.

I get in and out of the place as fast as I can. I have no interest in observing or experiencing any more of its soul-destroying effects than I absolutely have to.

 

[dh66]

At least you have an alternative, albeit an inconvenient one. If my wife wants sewing needs not to be had at w-m she has to look online. I can appreciate your aversion to the place, but I choose to look for the entertainment in it, or anywhere else for that matter, because if I didn't laugh about it I'd probably end up suicidally depressed.

Catawhata I don't know at what point kids who feel bad at night continue to feel bad during the daytime. None of mine are there yet, and it's ALWAYS at night when they feel bad and I have to run to the store for something. And I'm sure the dude with Buddy Holly glasses and the old man hat (me) up in there is as much of the show as any of the rest of 'em. At this point in my life I'm pretty beyond caring

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[dh66]

Oh, and as for the crazy nails, if the cashiers at my local walmart, bank, burger joint, dr.s office, whatever, are any kind of example, they DON'T do anything with 'em, except maybe act like your presence in their line is some great burden

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[jamespowers]

Oh, and as for the crazy nails, if the cashiers at my local walmart, bank, burger joint, dr.s office, whatever, are any kind of example, they DON'T do anything with 'em, except maybe act like your presence in their line is some great burden

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Exactly! They don't do anything.

 

[CataWhatas]

My boys usually feel cruddy the next day, but they can't start at oh 10 am when they could see the pediatrician. Must be after midnight, all the better if there's some drinking celebration that night.

The nail divas - sure, they do nothing productive, but erm, how do they manage basic hygiene and such. Which is why I'll wait in a long line than check out with one of them.

This has always been an issue, and I'd love it gone - but the teaching of hate as a worthwhile value.

 

[rjb1]

"...pretty much all of the people who shop there [Walmart] are those Nice Respectable Well-Dressed Middle-Class White People"
When Lizzie Maine said that I was puzzled, since no one who looks anything like that shops at Walmart around here. Then she explained that it was almost the only place to get stuff where she lives.
Around here the Walmart crowd is approximately 1/3 the Joad family, 1/3 circus-sideshow people, and 1/3 outright criminals.
I have been to the nearest one perhaps twice in the last year, and I was desperate for some small item at an odd time. Just being in there gives me the creeps.

 

[LizzieMaine]

When Lizzie Maine said that I was puzzled, since no one who looks anything like that shops at Walmart around here. Then she explained that it was almost the only place to get stuff where she lives.
Around here the Walmart crowd is approximately 1/3 the Joad family, 1/3 circus-sideshow people, and 1/3 outright criminals.
I have been to the nearest one perhaps twice in the last year, and I was desperate for some small item at an odd time. Just being in there gives me the creeps.

You must have Target where you live. That's just as much of a soul-destroying sinkhole of consumption-driven materialism as Walmart. The only difference -- at all -- is that it gives the people who go there an excuse to think they're somehow superior to Walmart shoppers.

It's only a matter of time before we get one here. The outastaters need somewhere to go to feel like they're above the natives.

 

[dh66]

....they can't start at oh 10 am when they could see the pediatrician. Must be after midnight, all the better if there's some drinking celebration that night.

So true

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[p51]

You must have Target where you live. That's just as much of a soul-destroying sinkhole of consumption-driven materialism as Walmart.

I always find it funny when people vilify the 'box stores' when they're no different than such corporate evils as Woolworth's or Sears. People way back in the day decried them for killing the 'Mom and Pop' stores.
Funny how everything old is new again. huh?

 

[LizzieMaine]

I always find it funny when people vilify the 'box stores' when they're no different than such corporate evils as Woolworth's or Sears. People way back in the day decried them for killing the 'Mom and Pop' stores.
Funny how everything old is new again. huh?

Big difference between Woolworth's and today's big boxers.

Woolworth workers were unionized.

I vividly remember the pre-big box era. In a town of about five thousand people, we had a W. T. Grant's, a Woolworth's, a McLellan's, and a LaVerdiere's, which was a Maine-based drug store chain which carried a full line of dime-store type merchandise. All these stores co-existed just fine, and we had a real choice of where to shop right in town. They were small stores by modern standards -- the Woolworth's and McLellan's were downtown storefronts, and the Grant's and the LaVerdiere's were in small 1950's-era "shopping plazas" -- but we never felt deprived in any way. And there were still plenty of locally owned stores if we didn't want to go to the chains -- Epstein's, Puritan, Achorn's, The Boston Store, and on and on and on. Yes, it was much better.

 

[dh66]

You must have Target where you live. That's just as much of a soul-destroying sinkhole of consumption-driven materialism as Walmart. The only difference -- at all -- is that it gives the people who go there an excuse to think they're somehow superior to Walmart shoppers.

True, ha ha

Target is where the walmart shoppers go to buy clothes so they don't look like they shop at walmart.

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