Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Preconceptions Preserved

Stereotype Reinforcement Training

Where:
Walmart

When:
1st of Every Month

What:
Link cards, food stamps, government checks

Who:
toothless rednecks,
nearly toothless hillbillies,
people with rotten teeth,
hateful Pentecostal women,
people who smell of cigarettes,
people who smell of B.O.,
people who smell of cigarettes and B.O.,
working alcoholics,
hangover sufferers,
victims of regrettable tats,
groping couples,
disheveled SAHMs,
prudish homeschoolers,
priggish homeschoolers,
tribes of sickly-looking prim homeschoolers,
cantankerous geezers,
women with wedgies,
men with huge guts and ill-fitting shirts,
welfare mamas with dirty babies,
welfare mamas with too many dirty babies,
welfare mamas with too many babies’ daddies,
obese women in power chairs,
smokers on oxygen,
stoners,
gamers,
meth-head toothpicks,
hoochie mamas,
wannabee cowboys,
wannabee black guys who’re white,
wannabee somebodies who’re nobodies,
plastic girls,
mean girls,
spoiled b*tches,
screaming babies,
whining children,
insolent tweens,
slutty teen girls,
obnoxious teen boys,
bull dikes,
prancing h’mos,
women who aren’t aging well,
women who need better lighting in their bathroom,
women who need tweezers and/or bleach crème,
peacocks,
guys in manopause,
sugar daddies,
cougars,
studs,
duds,
Bubbas,
Barbies,
kids in urbanwear,
drama queens,
drag queens,
slow walkers,
loud talkers,
the unwashed,
the overdone,
camo wearers,
cleavage sharers,
ass-crack bearers,
short-tempered moms,
inattentive moms,
over achiever moms,
clueless dads,
jobless dads,
non-custodial dads,
people who read entire magazines at WalMart,
people who wait to make poop at WalMart.

Get out much?

Way to wreck it for us.
That morning was our date night.
Who's supporting YOUR prejudices at the 'mart?

43 comments:

  1. OMGosh, were you at my Walmart the other day? Doesn't it make you feel better when you go there because everyone else is so gross you know you're like a queen! :)

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  2. Holy cow that's quite the list!

    Loud talkers? Are you talking about me? I like to stand in line at Walmart and talk very loudly about inappropriate things and make other people feel uncomfortable. It's so much fun for me!

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  3. Cleavage sharers and ass-crack barers.

    They're ALWAYS there. Usually, together.

    God help me, I do hate WalMart.

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  4. Have you seen the website People of Walmart? It's pictures that people have taken of some CRAZY people, on their cell phones. It's awesome.

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  5. OMG - I am cracking up laughing over here - thanks for the "visual" - UGH! Glad you had such a "nice date" that morning! HA!

    Hugs, Trac~ :o)

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  6. Were men with man boobs and girls with bacne on that list?? I am gonna do a letter tomorrow I think to the bacne girl...saw her the other day. ew.

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  7. I am concerned. Apparently I was at your Walmart.

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  8. I have honestly only been in a Walmart maybe 5 times my whole life. It isn't that I don't like it or fit in there but it just isn't convenient to where I live.
    I was trying to count how many of those descriptions fit me. At least one and that is all I am saying.

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  9. I cringe every time I have to go into a Walmart. I live in a rural area and we have three--yes, three--of them, and with only two other grocery stores and a Sam's Club, it's slim pickings for me. (Thank goodness we are getting a Target! Yea!) The store is scuzzy, and most of the people are--well, what you wrote. I know it's a free country and people can do what they want, but I often wonder how anyone can want to be one of the above. I've been pretty broke (never destitute, thank goodness) but I was always at least clean. A bath is not difficult, and soap is not expensive.

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  10. Very funny, but what were you doing there the first of the month.. lol.

    I may have missed it but what about non English speakers, or ones who speak it but no one understands them.
    xx

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  11. Wow.... maybe that's why I go to Target now.

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  12. ummm..... I think I may have been guilty of reading an entire magazine....... while I'm growing older in line...... isn't that why they put them there???? :-)


    all the extra skin showing is what gets me......

    especially when I can see like 15 different body piercings on a 15 year old, and all I can think is:

    Wow..... I did NOT know you could pierce THAT......

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  13. you noticed too? my husband and i were totally making judgements. its time to find a new wal mart he said, ya but its 30 miles away i said. i figured if you go early in the morning during the week, your fairly safe... as long as no one is vomiting on me, im in.. so maybe i'd better not go to wally world with you on a bad day...

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  14. I confess that I reached up to feel my chin to see if I had a random hair poking through.
    Whew! At least I'm clear for that one catagory.
    You're ruthless, Girl.
    I'm scared of you! LOL

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  15. Thanks for the 'thumbs up'. Walmart is coming DownUNDER. Bringing it's dirty underwear.. ha ha.. I crack myself up. Love, love, love your list. I'm going to use it when I get frustrated with my customers. No, wait, I'll post it up behind the counter for my girls to use when someone gets to them. Oh, this sure is a keeper. What a smart girl you are, helping me with PR!!

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  16. for a second I was afraid that I was at the Walmart yesterday and that it may have been me in one of the categories; luckily I went on Monday. Your new blog layout is fab, esp the bubbles :D

    if I only read a few pages of a magazine while in the checkout line, am I exempt?

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  17. LOL
    While I am almost certain I fit none of those descriptions; I have found myself in a Walmart once or twice. And I saw each and every one of those people. THOSE PEOPLE.

    Where you gonna go when your child needs poster board at midnight? argh.

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  18. Oh HOLY COW>>>You've done it!!!!!

    This is your chance to make a million.

    The New and Exciting "Wally World Scavenger Hunt"

    See how many you can check off your list ...

    You could also get some $$ from a cell phone co. and make a phone list game.

    Sadly; if fear I would qualify in several catagories.

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  19. Exactly the reason I don't do Wal-Mart. That and the fact that they are one of the slimiest busineses out there. I don't get why people are obsessed with this place. It's a gross shopping experience.

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  20. Oh - I like @eloh's idea about making it into a scavenger hunt!!!

    Why are they so universally - gross?

    The more I learn about their business practices, the less I shop there - even when it's convenient I avoid it when I can.

    Yuck.

    But EXCELLENT blog fodder - so get down with your bad self.

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  21. Beginning of August. Walmart. All of the above.

    Me, to my mother: Hrm. Walmart seems even more stank than usual today.
    Mother, to me: YEAH! It's the FIRST of the MONTH.

    (Even funnier if you know my mom. You don't. But. She's old and very proper.)

    Thanks for the 'stay away' reminder.

    Oh, and I'm a cantankerous SAHM. I hit stuff with my shopping cart by accident and flood the store with dirty looks. Category, pleeeeeeaaase.

    ;D

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    http://www.speakingfromthecrib.com/

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  23. SOO funny. I do Wal-Mart all the time because we have no other choices here in the boonies. And your list is accurate. So where's that put me? Uh-Oh. The good news is, I can run to Wal-Mart even in my jammie pants and dirty hair and no make-up and still look better than everyone else in there.

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  24. I actually love Walmart, but your post has made me now thankful that it so too far away for me to indulge.

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  25. lol....i always steer clear of walmart on the 1st and the 15th!!! this is exactly why!

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  26. I've seen lots of Baby Mamas with Hickeys lately. I'd like to officially add this as a category.

    I was commenting on it (I mean hickeys? It's so 1980) and my son piped up with "Dad, what's a hickey?" he just said, "Ask your mom, she's the one who brought it up!"

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  27. LMAO, I think this is why I now shop at Target!

    Great post!

    Smooches,
    Sassy Chica

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  28. You must have been at my Walmart. I see at least one of every one of these. I do fit in. I am cool. They stare at me. Think I am a freak. Want my autograph. I just sneer and walk on. To get my cute shirts and deodorant and milk.

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  29. You've covered every possible category, I think. We fit best into the "prudish homeschoolers" category. Without the "prudish," of course.

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  30. thanks for visiting and following my little blog SPEAKING FROM THE CRIB! 'preciate it

    http://www.speakingfromthecrib.com

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  31. You sure do have a lot of friends now. Hey. How's it going?

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  32. Ooooooh, I love Wal-Mart! I've been twice, both times in a speed-through quick-what's-on-the-list kinda way, and they had EVERYTHING that was on the list! White socks, Voltage tester, Batteries, Walnuts in big bag.... Y'know? Wal-Mart: If you're visiting America, it's your one-stop shopping depot.

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  33. Maybe you should add "Foreigners who are rushing to catch their plane" to your list.

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  34. Good morning! Stopped by from SITS. You were on roll call above me. Have a great weekend.

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  35. You are so funny! But it's true...Wal-Mart brings out the best of people and the best in people:) Great comment above me by the way. Can't help but think of your SITS rant;)

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  36. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I am a Target shopper. Thank you and goodnight!

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  37. WOW! That is awesome. What I have been thinking...but you put it so eloquently..

    Your blog is fantastic!

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  38. I LOVE this poem!
    You are a poetic genius!

    Have you been to the Redding Walmart?
    Seems like.

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  39. Hmmm...

    Are there any other kind of people?

    I'm afraid I'm a disheveled SAHM on occasion, but I'm usually at Target rather than Walmart.

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  40. I'm framing that. I bet I could find a good red-lacquer frame from Wal-Mart with plexiglass to hang it in, too. WHAT is manopause?

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  41. was cross-dressers on that list? I've seen a few of those at Wally-World lately. There's seems to be a rash of muffin-tops-and-jeans-that-look-like-they've-been-painted-on women over there lately too. Usually hangin by the internal McDonalds counter.

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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. -Quentin Crisp

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