I\u2019m not going to say my former south Bakersfield neighborhood, once a middle class haven, turned foul because it bordered a Wal-Mart store.\u00a0 In fairness to the elephantine retailer, the area swirled into a sewer because absentee landlords sucked the Section 8 tit and, in exchange for government housing subsidies, stuffed criminals and other loud members of the underclass into fine duplexes they, the unwashed renters, could not have otherwise afforded.\u00a0 That Wal-Mart was there, huge and grim on the horizon, doubtless encouraged the landlords\u2019 lust.\u00a0 If any other department store, where customers don\u2019t resemble those in wanted posters, had been down the street, the neighborhood might have been preserved.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Concede I must that I\u2019ve many times eagerly rushed into the vast spaces of Wal-Mart, sometimes at three a.m., searching for a twenty-buck bookcase or CDs half what they\u2019d be elsewhere.\u00a0 Though disliking the parking lot always shabby and jammed, and the forlorn and tattered souls shuffling endlessly through the warehouse, I walked among them because I could find almost any product anytime.\u00a0 Being occasionally glowered at or jostled didn\u2019t bother me enough to vow never to return, until the last time.\u00a0 A few months ago a cretin decided to extend his turf and redirected his path by three yards so, in an uncrowded aisle, he brushed my shoulder.\u00a0 Fuck it, I thought.\u00a0 If something like that happens again I\u2019m either going to savage him or him me and who the hell wants that or to shop in a dust bowl.\u00a0 I\u2019m also disinclined to continue funding owners who earn billions but won\u2019t pay a decent wage or provide health insurance for employees.<\/p>\n With these sentiments indelibly in place, I recently received an attachment about Wal-Mart.\u00a0 I generally don\u2019t enjoy attachments and had never forwarded one, till this \u2013<\/p>\n So after landing my new job as a\u00a0Wal-Mart\u00a0greeter, As I had been instructed, I said pleasantly, \u201cGood morning\u00a0and welcome to Wal-Mart. The ugly woman stopped yelling long enough to say, So I replied,\u00a0\u201cI’m neither blind nor stupid, Ma’am, Have a good day and thank you for shopping at Wal-Mart.\u201d<\/p>\n Source: I don\u2019t know which sociologist wrote this but will happily post credit if I find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m not going to say my former south Bakersfield neighborhood, once a middle class haven, turned foul because it bordered a Wal-Mart store.\u00a0 In fairness to the elephantine retailer, the area swirled into a sewer because absentee landlords sucked the Section 8 tit and, in exchange for government housing subsidies, stuffed criminals and other loud…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[857,264,265],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\na good find for many retirees,
\nI lasted less than a day……
\nAbout two hours into my first day on the job a very loud,
\nunattractive, mean-acting woman walked into the store with her two kids,
\nYelling obscenities at them all the way through the entrance.<\/p>\n
\nNice children you have there. Are they twins?\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWell no, they ain’t twins. The oldest one’s 9, and the other one’s 7.
\nWhy the heck would you think they’re twins? Are you blind, or just stupid?\u201d<\/p>\n
\nI just couldn’t believe\u00a0someone slept with you\u00a0twice.<\/p>\n