sergebroom: (Moloch)
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Yesterday, while doing the grocery, I overheard one woman in her seventies say the following to another:

"I hate going to WalMart. I'd rather have a root canal."

Date: Sep. 13th, 2009 11:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
Why, I wonder, does she go?

Date: Sep. 13th, 2009 11:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
I got the impression that she doesn't go anymore, or that she'd go only as a very last resort in spite of her comment about painful dental work.

Date: Sep. 14th, 2009 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] etumukutenyak.livejournal.com
"Open wide! Oh, sorry, you want the Linens aisle?"

Date: Sep. 14th, 2009 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
Yeah, she'll have quite a dilemma when WalMart opens a dentistry dept that's so cheap that all regular dentists will shut down. (Am I being silly? In 1969, the news that, 4 deacdes later, Disney would remake Yellow Submarine would have been greeted with scorn and ridicule.)

Date: Sep. 14th, 2009 11:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
Disney, servants of the Dark Lord since the 1930s.

Date: Sep. 14th, 2009 04:05 am (UTC)
ext_63737: Posing at Zeusaphone concert, 2008 (Default)
From: [identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com
Browse [livejournal.com profile] abpeed for tales from the register line of Wal-Mart, told by a very smart, very acerbic employee.

Date: Sep. 14th, 2009 04:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
Servant Excellence at the Lovely Workplace?
Oh goodness.