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As most of you know, I don't get "out" much!
Saturday I absolutely, positively HAD to go to Wal-Mart. There was no more putting it off.
The parking lot was so crowded you couldn't hardly get into it, let alone find a parking spot. But, my usual spot was open...because I always park in the farthest spot away from the store! That's the ONLY spot that was open. Everyone was just driving around and around, waiting for someone to back out of a spot a little closer so they could snag it.
And don't you just hate those people who see someone putting their bags in their car, and they STOP and wait for them to get everything loaded up, even though it might take 5 minutes. Then they WAIT for the person to s-l-o-w-l-y take their cart to one of those "cart corrals", come back to their car, fasten their seatbelt, find a good CD before they back out....you get the picture. All the while, traffic is backed up a mile. That BURNS ME UP!
O.K. Back to the story.
I get to the entrance of the store and there are two guys standing outside the door that looked like they might have been in the movie "Deliverance". They had obviously crawled out from under a rock somewhere and decided to go to Wal-Mart to pick up chicks! (Or at least, LOOK at chicks!) I'm in my late 40's, but I'm still pretty hot! And they sure let me know it! (How embarrassing!) What are you supposed to do when a guy goes "Ummmmmmm ummm!" to you REAL loud in front of 20 other people? I gave them a dollar each!
So, inside the store now. I hadn't even gotten 20 feet before the first person rammed their cart into the back of my ankles.
While recouperating from THAT, I look in my purse for my list, and realize I left it at home. Not good...me in Wal-Mart with no clue!
I had to venture past the toy department on the way to the light bulb department. I passed a big display of a new toy in the center aisle. I stopped dead in my tracks and turned around to make sure I read the box correctly as I passed. Yep. Sure enough, it said "STINKY AIR BLASTER" - "Blasts Stinky Air Up To 20 Feet"! And, by golly, they were on SALE! (Dang, I've already used my 8 graemlin quota!) Brennan will NOT be getting one of those for Christmas from me!
Made it to the craft department for the Clear Acrylic spray I use over my paintings. It said on the back in big, bold letters: THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS CHEMICALS KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE BIRTH DEFECTS. Now...does that mean if I use it in Kentucky it's safe?
See, this is why I don't like to go to Wal-Mart. Everything boggles my mind! Then, my cell phone rings. I can't do ANYTHING while I talk on the phone. So, I have to decide whether to stay put in the craft department until the call is over, or try to shop and talk at the same time. I can't stand to see people talking on cell phones in stores, so I decide to hide in the craft department and talk. ("Can you hear me NOW?")
Since I'm out of graemlins, I'll have to continue this another time. There is absolutely no way I can describe my ordeal at the "Self Check Out" without graemlins!
Cindy
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Can't wait to hear the rest of the story.........
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I finally figured those things out....... kinda, but I'm a lot slower than the people they pay to do that so unless I've got less than six items I dont' use em. Some things I've learned about them:
You can't put your purse down ANYWHERE, it screws up everything
you can't have kids with you
there can't be anyone behind you
if you use the "skip bagging" button too many times the store police arrive
If you need assistance no one's around
Use a card, if you pay cash you could get $19 back in nickels and dimes
Oh, you'd LOVE a trip to Wal-Mart with me! I'll have to PM you with a funny story about me and my cousin in Wal-Mart, and I was buying a padded bra and all we had in the entire shopping cart was this big padded bra, pushing it around the store....hell, I just told you most of the story!
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you have enough of that problem at home!!! If anyone reads this and hasn't read your skunk stories
Okay...we have to hear the end of this story!!! Catlover
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quote:Oh, you'd LOVE a trip to Wal-Mart with me!
I'm sure...but I don't think you'd like shopping with me. I have a bad habit of HAVING to turn on all the noisemakers. Sunday when I was in Wal-Mart with the kids,they had dancing,singing hamsters and before I was done I had all 20 of them jamming,while I laughed like a MADWOMAN ...I thought my kids were gonna die from embarrassement,Hee,Hee,Hee.
The thing goes off at all times of the day and night When you least expect it, it shoots it's "STINKY AIR" out and I'm like.... * * * * * * * * * * It's called my husband and two kids after chili, pot roast, spaghetti, etc,
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I've been to a Wal-mart down there in Fla and the one we have up here in Maine and can anyone tell me : How does that little old lady greeter get back and forth every day. I swear it's the same lady giving out the stickers. That's what I wanna do when I retire..
Our Walmart is 5 miles away and I'm not kidding, I'm there at least every other day.....went yesterday, and the day before, and lo and behold I'm heading there again tonight......
Karen--Me and my mom set off all of those dancing singing things the other day, and there were no kids with us.... What does that say about our mentality....
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Our wal-mart doesn't have the self check-out thing. I think there is too much theft here. Stephen just did inventory at the store and he's $1000 short! He said there were alot of little things missing, like the things that are in those drawers in the back...resistors and diodes and stuff. I mean, those things cost like 75 cents! Why would you even bother?? But they add up when your missing them!
ANYWAYS, something else you can't do at the you-scan things is bag something too light. The little thing doesn't know you've bagged it and keeps asking you to put it in the bag. And Cindy, let me just tell you this...I also talk back to them and I've gotten into arguments with them!! Accept around here, there are ppl there to help you because sometimes you have to trade in your crumply 20 dollar bill for a flat one......dumb machines. I can only imagine how rediculous I look when I'm arguing with a machine that is programed to talk nicely and politely. "please put your item in the bag" "I DID!!!!!!" "please put your item in the bag" "ARGGGG!!!!"
In my rural area we only have one store so far with the self check out.....a grocery store 20 miles away........I think personally I'd rather stick with a human being.....lol
Karen, yep if we were all together in the toy department it would be frightening.....just think of all the stuff that 3 of us could set off together......woo-hoo....and then you always get the person that shoots you a dirty look just because you're having some fun and they aren't.
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quote:you always get the person that shoots you a dirty look
Yeah,I know,they're everywhere But then you have the ones that get a smile on their face If I can give someone a giggle,then my work is done! The other day I even heard someone in the next aisle singing along with one of the songs
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I was singing xmas carols all around wally world last night.....the stupid garden center(where they keep all of the xmas stuff now), is already playing them.....so needless to say I've been singing Winter Wonderland now for hours.....I can't get it out of my head.....lol It's funny I guess, but starting to drive me a little to tell you the truth.....
I like when you get all the toys singing and dancing and you get the kids laughing.....mother gives you a dirty look because now their kids want all the toys that are going off, but as long as the kids are laughing then I'm happy. You know those big 5 foot Santa/Snowmen things that move and dance.....I had them all going off last night......It was an interesting choral assembly to say the least....I had a little boy laughing....
My layaway there was just starting to get to a healthy lowish amount, and I just had to add a ton of stuff to it.....sighs....I just can't get ahead....I love layaway, it's a great shopping fix and you don't need to pay for it(well not all at once anyway) At this rate if I keep adding stuff I'll have the layaway out by next xmas.....
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Hisgal- I do that too. That'll get you some strange looks at the Home Depot. "It's ALREADY IN THE BAG, you stupid machine!!!" Only my Home Depot only has like 3 employees, so if you get hung up in the self-check, you're in limbo for 10 minutes.
Loz- maybe I can help you get that annoying song out of your head. "It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all, it's a small world after all, it's a small, SMALLLL WORRRRLD!!" heheheheheheh
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This is the song that doesn't end Yes it goes on and on my friends Some people started singing it not knowing what it was And they'll continue singing it forever just because... This is the song that doesn't end...
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Does this help....push play! Small world Tee hee hee Catlover
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Geegeeburr.....thank you so much for ridding me of one song only to move to the next....
Could be worse, a few days ago in Walmart I was humming Dora the Explorer to myself.......Too much babysitting of the niece I'd say....lol
Cindy......Credit Cards are evil....yep, I deem them so......They got me in serious trouble when I was about 18......I was making about 10,000 a year back then and what do they do....they give me a 3500 credit limit......and I got a sears card, and a Pennys card, and a Bon-Ton card.... Thank God for parents that's all I have to say.........all we have now is debit cards....I really, really learned my lesson....it was a terrible cycle....go buy clothes, junk, whatever....feel bad about it, so go shopping again the next day to feel better.....
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And ya know what, loz? After you start screwing up they RAISE YOUR CREDIT LIMIT!
And offer you MORE cards!
Been there, done that!
Thanks, Catlover...I'm so stupid I actually pushed the button!
Cindy
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We get credit card offers in our names all the time.........they just get ripped up and thrown in the trash.....No more credit cards for loz....not me, nope...I'm the super shopper and they get me into waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too much trouble.......Now we pay everything with cash or debit.....
And Cindy, are you singing now????LOL
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ROFL. I'm sorry, guys. I used to work with this guy who would have song-sticking BATTLES with me. Every time he saw me he'd start singing some d#@* annoying song, then he'd laugh like crazy when I'd start singing it. He gave me Small World once, and it was stuck in my stupid head for THREE DAYS. But I got even. The next time I saw him, I started singing the Meow Mix song. Meow, meow, meow, meow Meow, meow, meow, meow, Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow..... I don't even know how long he had that stuck in his head, but he never forgave me. And I apologize in advance to all of you who are now infected with the Meow Mix song...
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LOL...don't you just love them their called ear worms!!!
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quote:Just sit right back & you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip That started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship. The mate was a mighty sailing man, The skipper brave & sure. Five passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour, A three hour tour
The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed, If not for the courage of the fearless crew The Minnow would be lost, The Minnow would be lost.
The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle With Gilligan, The Skipper too, The millionaire and his wife, The movie star
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Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Head and shoulders knees and toes, knees and toes toes toes toes. Eyes and ears and a mouth and a nose. Head and shoulders knees and toes.
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Oh crap. Well, I guess it's me and the Skipper and the fearless crew for the next couple of days.
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quote: Just sit right back & you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip That started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship. The mate was a mighty sailing man, The skipper brave & sure. Five passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour, A three hour tour
The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed, If not for the courage of the fearless crew The Minnow would be lost, The Minnow would be lost.
The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle With Gilligan, The Skipper too, The millionaire and his wife, The movie star
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And, ever since I typed that I've had it in my head!
THE MADNESS NEVER STOPS! ! !
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Just give in to it Cindy....I thought what the heck, pulled out the xmas CD and actually listened to the song Winter Wonderland thinking it would help me get it out of my head......stupid, I know....I was trying to play reverse psychology on my brain....lol I think it actually worked a little, although now I'm stuck with We wish you a merry christmas....
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