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| Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us  |
Needed a couple things so we ran out to Meijer (a little more upscale Walmart. Grocery store with clothes, sporting goods, electronics, toys, etc.) Sure the weather has been pretty crappy here the past couple days but sure enough there was a fella running laps. Not just once the fella was seriously there just to exercise had his headphones in and had worked up quite a sweat. ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | ||
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| probably a good thing I don't have a cut |
What? You mean in the store? | |||
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| Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us |
Sure do! ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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Ammoholic |
I often work in malls before they've opened for the day. There are always old people going for walks in the empty mall. Also there are women with newborns doing yoga and exercises involving the use of strollers. In the winter I guess I can understand it, but I see it year round. People are weird, I'd never exercise in a public shopping venue. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us |
The elderly walking in the malls is nothing new and not really out of place. This dude was straight running laps inside. ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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Frangas non Flectes |
Well, he accomplished his mission. You posted about him on the internet.  ______________________________________________ Carthago delenda est | |||
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| Conservative Behind Enemy Lines  |
I ride a bicycle for exercise. I've always wished I could ride it in an empty mall - perfectly smooth, no traffic, and some malls have long, circular ramps going from floor to floor. I found what you said riveting. | |||
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| Bunch of savages in this town  |
I've never used it, but my gym has a sauna in the locker room. A friend is sitting in it, sweating. An old guy comes in, naked, and starts doing yoga stretches. It's like an 8x10 room. ----------------- I apologize now... | |||
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Only the strong survive |
In the winter time or bad weather like today, I go to WalMart and walk the aisles and check out the bargains. All kinds of half prices..dog treats, detergent, and blueberry plants. Even Breyers ice cream at $2. 41 | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
early in our marriage, wife and I would stroll through 24 hour walgreens. It was a big store. that was our cheap date. But I have never exercised inside a store. I've never even exercised inside a gym even when I was paying for it monthly for years. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Coin Sniper |
Meijer was founded in Michigan in 1934, almost 30 years before Walmart. When I was a kid it was known as Meijer Thrifty Acres. It morphed into it's current format of grocery, clothing, auto parts, hardware, electronics, home goods, etc in 1962, the same year Walmart started life. I've shopped at the original 'new format' store on 28th st. in Grand Rapids. Meijer expanded carefully and strategically, and was welcomed with open arms in most communities. It didn't ram itself into your city with deceptive and aggressive tactics. At least here in Michigan most people prefer Meijer over Walmart. Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
There was a mentally challenged guy who would come into Grace Cathedral and run laps during the chapel service. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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| Ammoholic |
Wrong thread I'm guessing? Or can I have a hit of whatcha toking? Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| 7.62mm Crusader |
I've drivin by a Meijer store in northern Kentucky many times, wrongfully assumed it was just another high price grocer. Man was I wrong. I understand they've been here and selling general commodities for 57 years. | |||
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| Coin Sniper |
Other than an occasional cigar... nope. But the OP drew a slight comparison between Meijer and Walmart. I took the opportunity to fill in the historical blank in between. Odd things are not uncommon in Meijer. The one in my home town found a guy sleeping inside a tent they had on display. The snoring gave him away. Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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| Ammoholic |
Oops, never heard of meijer, assumed it was a response to the closed business thread. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| Coin Sniper |
https://www.meijer.com/?cmpid=...-_Core:[meijer]:BING Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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| Member |
Yeah, not really a mall, just a store. I would be a little irate if he ran into me while shopping. I have already been run into twice. The third time I narrowly avoided it. I can understand people looking for items on the shelf and ram a cart into you, but just exercising, and running into someone would tick me off. If he watched what he was doing....I would not say anything, but the manager should. NRA Life Endowment member Tri-State Gun collectors Life Member | |||
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Member |
Yeah, and I believe that's the point of this thread. It's not a mall. It's a store w/ a square main walkway w/ isles running off, not unlike Walmart. People crossing every which way w/ bins everywhere. Crazy. | |||
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