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Every day, we move a little closer to the Idiocracy. I thought it was just a funny-ish movie. Now I realize it is more prophetic than I like to admit. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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| women dug his snuff and his gallant stroll |
Next year you should buy some cigarettes and diapers to sell from the back of your vehicle on Christmas Day. | |||
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Working retail in SoCal in the 90s, our place was clearly marked on hours. In the adverstisements, on the door, everywhere. Wouldn't stop the hethens from damn near pulling the doors off the hinges (i usually was tasked to stay after and "cash out" the registers alone. Fuck safety apparantly. Got so bad that if I accidentally left a door unlocked customers would walk in (with the lights being off already) and demand product. Last couple of years I got permission from the owner to carry the G-19......unofficially of course. This was a place located in an industrial park 45 minutes from the border. Mostly Mexican National customers and I'm white (Cherokee but same thing to the customer). I still have nightmares 20 years later. Thank goodness for Gaston Glock  Still have that old blown out Glock(same one I used as working as retail/RO at the local indoor range). It's an ugly old Gen 2 slide on a newer Gen3 frame).Used as a trainer and for peronal use as payment for services rendered was usually in ammo and parts. If I even attempted to sell it, I would feel like I just sold off my best friend. Even has the old 90 degree extractor. So, very early 90's. Some folks wonder why I support personal carry laws  "And I think about my loves,well I've had a few. Well,I'm sorry that I hurt them, did I hurt you too" I Was Wrong--Social D. | |||
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| I Am The Walrus |
I was thinking along the lines of crazy consumers since that was the theme of the original post. _____________ | |||
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Waiting for Hachiko |
I am old enough to remember that also. I also remember when no stores were open on Sundays. Was it the end of the world? 美しい犬 | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
Went out for two reasons last night. One was to take a gift to a friend who lives one block away from Detroit city limits off Eight Mile. Stop and Robs were open all along the Eight. Left his house about 9:30, I'm about 45 minutes away. By the time I got to my town nothing was open except one gas station. On the way home I went "ghost chasing". I drive by places I lived and grew up around, friends lived. Many of the places have changed, torn down, but my memories are still there. To me it puts many things in perspective. Usually those nights were of solitude. Me, the radio, a Coke and munchies, now coffee. I would spend two or three hours out. Anymore the traffic flow it pretty much like a normal night at that time, a bit lighter but still more than in the past. Going forward I think those drives are over, solitary and solitude are pretty much a thing of the past around here. And to top it off, Target was still open and the lot full at almost 10 P.M. last night. When the kids were home (young) many years ago we were home by 6.Those years the only time I went out was when the Motorola Minitor started sending out "the tones" for a fire or EMS call. -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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| Sigforum K9 handler |
Several years ago, I was dispatched to a hazardous incident on roadway. It was a side street that basically connects two major roadways. Down the road, there were multiple other “blocks” that people could turn down. I found the roadway to be slick as ice, and pulled my marked cruiser across the road until the highway department could get there. A semi had spilled animal fat/grease all over the road at the next intersection. So here I am, car parked cross the road, standing in front of it wearing a lime green safety vest. People, one after the other, would pull into the turn lane, and point at my car. I would point in the direction the needed to go, and then, one after another, they would turn anyways and try to drive around my car blocking the road. When I would politely ask them what in the fuck were they thinking, they would reply one of two things. “I didn’t realize the road was closed”. Or “But, this is the way I have to go” I would explain to them that if they went one more block down, they’d notice that there isn’t a cop car blocking the street. And one block down lead them in the same direction. Most would get upset for the detour. I never got an explanation from those who didn’t know the road was closed. I finally had to start writing citations. | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
I guess they could smoke some rolled lawn grass. And re: the diapers, they could also do like one helluva lot of us did when we had small kids. As in, wash the damned things. When our daughter was born, we were in the army on very limited income. Wife figured it out really quickly, that it was cheaper to use cloth diapers and wash them when they got dirty. Don't think we ever used a single paper diaper, nor did our daughter on her 2 boys. "Lazy" will be a major contributor to the downfall of this country. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
jljones, more than once I had someone tell me to move a hose so they could continue down the street. My favorite was a downed wire call we had. Ice storm accompanied by winds. Line snapped, about 7500 volts IIRC. It was adjacent to a 7-11, broken wire had contacted a light pole in the lot that had a public phone attached to it. (Yeah, a long time ago) So it is coned off, four of us in the engine with lights activated. I'm the rookie at that department, only been on three months so I was sent out to interact with the people in the parking lot. One parks by the door and makes a bee line for the outdoor phone despite the fact there was one inside the store. So out of the truck I go, as I hit the running board I yell "Sir, stop now!" He proceeds to tell me that he wants to use that phone. Now there are arcing marks where the broken line had contacted it prior to our arrival, I tell him there is one inside the store he can use. Nope, he's going to argue that he is using the outside one. Why I wonder, freezing rain unsheltered phone. Still, he's not going to listen and I tell him he cannot cross that line of cones. Finally he says "I'm using that phone" and just before I could say anything that instant the hot end of the snapped line blows into the light pole, a nice loud buzz and snap and a hail of blue and white sparks. Literally I think he shat himself. I then said "Still wanna use it?" He got in his car and left. -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
It's still mostly that way in France. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I'm sorry at laughing at your expense. But I can just imagine your thoughts and feelings as you look at the stash of batteries you have but not even just one you need. Ain't that life. I've gone through the same thing myself. I find I need a battery. Then go through all the packets I get from Costco. And I check it twice. "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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Fly High, A.J. |
I worked at Walgreens from 1980-1984, and we were definitely open on Christmas day. In fact, that was the day we marked all the Christmas decorations down by 50%. You would not believe the fights between a couple of blue hairs over a discounted strand of lights. | |||
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| hello darkness my old friend  |
I worked the walmart shift this morning from 5am to 11am. Not a car in the lot and my police suv parked in front of the door. fifty folks walked around me to check the doors at wally world. Several of these folks said they had no food at home at all. Many were angry. One guy asked “what am i supposed to do? This day always makes me laugh at the stupidity of many of our citizens. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Elk Hunter, re: the diapers. Even as late as 1954 we used cloth diapers for my baby sister. (I know, because I had to wash them and hang them on the clothesline to dry, then fold them--I used the "airplane fold". Our washing machine--with a wringer--was in the basement and my mom was not supposed to use the stairs, so it fell to me to do the work--I was 16. I didn't mind, don't get me wrong; my mom needed help and I was able.) gw3791, all Stop 'n' Robs have basic foodstuffs--soup, chili, bread, PB, etc. You'd think everyone would know that. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Sigforum K9 handler |
You sir, know EXACTLY where I am coming from. | |||
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 _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
It's that way around these parts too. With the exception of our small grocery store, the gas stations, and bars, everything is closed up on Sundays. It can be a little annoying those times when you need something from the hardware store, but you get used to it and plan accordingly. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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I have done the Walmart external security gig for Christmas too. All 28 straight hours. Johnstown, PA. People walking up and banging on the doors happened at least half a dozen times from the 6pm close until about 1or 2 am. | |||
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| Eschew Obfuscation |
My daughter lives about 30 mins north of Lincoln, NE. The first time we visited her at Christmas, I was surprised at how many places closed early on Christmas Eve and stayed closed on Christmas. Like you, it brought back memories for me too. And I kind of liked it as well. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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