Thursday, April 22, 2010

More Walmart Madness....



First of all, you're going to think I'm making this up. I can assure you, this is absolutely objective and I couldn't possibly make this up. A few weeks ago, I was doing something that I have a growing disdain for....walking into Walmart. Fortunately, it was at night when a good majority of the morons are at home in front of their televisions watching American Idol. Unfortunately, it was raining. However, not to worry....I was entertained by what I'm getting ready to describe. I noticed an older Chrysler convertible parked in a spot near the door. Nothing out of the ordinary until the top began to be lowered....all the while the rain is coming down. I couldn't help but notice that there were rather large people in both the driver and the passenger side. I stopped my journey into the store as I was intrigued as to why this person was lowering their convertible top in the middle of a downpour of rain. When the top was lowered until it stopped, I noticed that this particular car was equipped with a backseat and in said seat was a child of about 10 or 11 years of age. The child stood up on the back seat and literally rolled over the trunk and landed on the ground. While the kid maneuvered her way out of the car, I heard her say to who I suppose were her parents...."You're so freaking lazy!" Once the child began walking into the store, the top was put back up to avoid more rain from coming in to the car itself.

My first reaction was....WOW!!! I've seen it all, now I can die knowing I've seen everything there is to see. But then I began to wonder if the driver was handicapped in some way as I walked through the store and for the moment, felt bad for thinking poorly of them. I guess I'm getting more compassionate as I grow older. Those thoughts quickly evaporated as I exited the store. To my utter amazement (you'll notice I didn't write surprise), the driver was now standing outside the car smoking a cigarette....I kid you not. And in the rain. So, this person was too lazy to roll their fat rear out of the car to allow their child to go in the store. And then there's the matter of allowing a 10 year old to go into Walmart by themselves at night which in and of itself is completely asinine. On the other hand, they weren't too lazy to puff on a weed for a few minutes while their child did their work.

Remarkably stupid people doesn't even come close to what I had witnessed. And we wonder how and why the generations are proliferated with stupidity and laziness. If I keep shopping at Walmart, I'll be able to supply this blog until I'm six feet under.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

More Parking Lot Madness


The holidays bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. I should be writing about happy holiday cheery things, but then that wouldn't be consistent with my normal cynical tone. Here are two examples of remarkably stupid people that pollute parking lots at the mall, at department stores, and other places that have row parking.

Number 1: I'm not sure who designed row parking, but whoever it was seemed to have the right idea. He/she decided to design the lot so that the parking spaces angled one way on one row and the opposite way on the next and so on and so forth. This way, one could drive down the row where the angles pointed toward their car so it would make parking easier. Then if there were no spaces available, they could pull to the very next row and roll back down the opposite way.....extremely simple concept. Tonight, I'm pulling out of the parking lot at the local Walmart and when I get to the end of the row, some R.S.P. is pulling into my row...going the wrong way. I sat there in my car awaiting for them to become aware of their parking lot faux pas, but then I realized I was at Walmart. The person sat there and would not move. So I had to squeeze around them narrowly missing the bumper of a parked car near the end of the row.

Number 2: I just love it when I'm trying to leave a parking lot and there's a car in front of me in a very narrow row who decides to roll the window down and have a 10 minute conversation with their friend. After all, their conversation is more important than anything in the world and causing a back up of cars is insignificant in their world. RSPs abound.

Any other parking lot stories?