A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2004 WallyWorld On Saturday.....in Southeast KY!

As most of you know, I don't get "out" much!

Saturday I absolutely, positively HAD to go to Wal-Mart.
There was no more putting it off.

The parking lot was so crowded you couldn't hardly get into it, let alone find a parking spot. But, my usual spot was open...because I always park in the farthest spot away from the store! That's the ONLY spot that was open. Everyone was just driving around and around, waiting for someone to back out of a spot a little closer so they could snag it.

And don't you just hate those people who see someone putting their bags in their car, and they STOP and wait for them to get everything loaded up, even though it might take 5 minutes. Then they WAIT for the person to s-l-o-w-l-y take their cart to one of those "cart corrals", come back to their car, fasten their seatbelt, find a good CD before they back out....you get the picture. All the while, traffic is backed up a mile. That BURNS ME UP!

O.K. Back to the story.

I get to the entrance of the store and there are two guys standing outside the door that looked like they might have been in the movie "Deliverance". They had obviously crawled out from under a rock somewhere and decided to go to Wal-Mart to pick up chicks! (Or at least, LOOK at chicks!) I'm in my late 40's, but I'm still pretty hot! And they sure let me know it! (How embarrassing!) What are you supposed to do when a guy goes "Ummmmmmm ummm!" to you REAL loud in front of 20 other people? I gave them a dollar each!

So, inside the store now. I hadn't even gotten 20 feet before the first person rammed their cart into the back of my ankles.

While recouperating from THAT, I look in my purse for my list, and realize I left it at home. Not good...me in Wal-Mart with no clue!

I had to venture past the toy department on the way to the light bulb department. I passed a big display of a new toy in the center aisle. I stopped dead in my tracks and turned around to make sure I read the box correctly as I passed. Yep. Sure enough, it said "STINKY AIR BLASTER" - "Blasts Stinky Air Up To 20 Feet"! And, by golly, they were on SALE! (Dang, I've already used my 8 graemlin quota!) Brennan will NOT be getting one of those for Christmas from me!

Made it to the craft department for the Clear Acrylic spray I use over my paintings. It said on the back in big, bold letters: THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS CHEMICALS KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE BIRTH DEFECTS. Now...does that mean if I use it in Kentucky it's safe?

See, this is why I don't like to go to Wal-Mart. Everything boggles my mind! Then, my cell phone rings. I can't do ANYTHING while I talk on the phone. So, I have to decide whether to stay put in the craft department until the call is over, or try to shop and talk at the same time. I can't stand to see people talking on cell phones in stores, so I decide to hide in the craft department and talk. ("Can you hear me NOW?")

Since I'm out of graemlins, I'll have to continue this another time. There is absolutely no way I can describe my ordeal at the "Self Check Out" without graemlins!

Cindy

Can't wait to hear the rest of the story.........

It's funny! You know, those things talk to you! (And, I answer them.)
Well, we got into an argument!

There's more??????????

I finally figured those things out....... kinda, but I'm a lot slower than the people they pay to do that so unless I've got less than six items I dont' use em. Some things I've learned about them:

• You can't put your purse down ANYWHERE, it screws up everything
• you can't have kids with you
• there can't be anyone behind you
• if you use the "skip bagging" button too many times the store police arrive
• If you need assistance no one's around
• Use a card, if you pay cash you could get $19 back in nickels and dimes
• they suck :p

I wanna go shopping with you!

Sounds better than a saturday matinee!

G-Mom

And cheap entertainment too,
can't do any better than FREEEEEEE!!!

Weezie

Hey Cindy...did you remember to buy a mop yet?



G-Mom

Rachel finally bought me a mop!

Oh, you'd LOVE a trip to Wal-Mart with me! I'll have to PM you with a funny story about me and my cousin in Wal-Mart, and I was buying a padded bra and all we had in the entire shopping cart was this big padded bra, pushing it around the store....hell, I just told you most of the story!

Well I hope you didn't end up buying the
you have enough of that problem at home!!! If anyone reads this and hasn't read your skunk stories

I'm sure...but I don't think you'd like shopping with me. I have a bad habit of HAVING to turn on all the noisemakers. Sunday when I was in Wal-Mart with the kids,they had dancing,singing hamsters and before I was done I had all 20 of them jamming,while I laughed like a MADWOMAN

Been there, done that!

When Rachel was a teenager she would NOT go to Wal-Mart with me.

We already own that The thing goes off at all times of the day
and night
When you least expect it, it shoots it's "STINKY AIR" out and I'm like.... :rolleyes:
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It's called my husband and two kids after chili,
pot roast, spaghetti, etc,

Does anyone remember "Bananas in pajamas" dolls

Weezie...
I'm picturing that.....
I must be too old for that one!

I've been to a Wal-mart down there in Fla and the one we have up here in Maine and can anyone tell me : How does that little old lady greeter get back and forth every day. I swear it's the same lady giving out the stickers. That's what I wanna do when I retire..

Cindy---

Our Walmart is 5 miles away and I'm not kidding, I'm there at least every other day.....went yesterday, and the day before, and lo and behold I'm heading there again tonight......

Karen--Me and my mom set off all of those dancing singing things the other day, and there were no kids with us.... What does that say about our mentality....

Does anyone remember "Bananas in pajamas" dolls

Can't wait to hear about the self-check out ordeal...

Lets go shopping together!!! We'd have Wal-Mart ROCKING!



G-Mom

Hee,Hee,Hee...

Our wal-mart doesn't have the self check-out thing. I think there is too much theft here. Stephen just did inventory at the store and he's $1000 short! He said there were alot of little things missing, like the things that are in those drawers in the back...resistors and diodes and stuff. I mean, those things cost like 75 cents! Why would you even bother?? But they add up when your missing them!

ANYWAYS, something else you can't do at the you-scan things is bag something too light. The little thing doesn't know you've bagged it and keeps asking you to put it in the bag. And Cindy, let me just tell you this...I also talk back to them and I've gotten into arguments with them!! Accept around here, there are ppl there to help you because sometimes you have to trade in your crumply 20 dollar bill for a flat one......dumb machines. I can only imagine how rediculous I look when I'm arguing with a machine that is programed to talk nicely and politely. "please put your item in the bag" "I DID!!!!!!" "please put your item in the bag" "ARGGGG!!!!"

LOL.....

In my rural area we only have one store so far with the self check out.....a grocery store 20 miles away........I think personally I'd rather stick with a human being.....lol

Karen, yep if we were all together in the toy department it would be frightening.....just think of all the stuff that 3 of us could set off together......woo-hoo....and then you always get the person that shoots you a dirty look just because you're having some fun and they aren't.

Yeah,I know,they're everywhere :p But then you have the ones that get a smile on their face If I can give someone a giggle,then my work is done! The other day I even heard someone in the next aisle singing along with one of the songs

G-Mom

Hey, that was ME!

I was singing xmas carols all around wally world last night.....the stupid garden center(where they keep all of the xmas stuff now), is already playing them.....so needless to say I've been singing Winter Wonderland now for hours.....I can't get it out of my head.....lol It's funny I guess, but starting to drive me a little

My layaway there was just starting to get to a healthy lowish amount, and I just had to add a ton of stuff to it.....sighs....I just can't get ahead....I love layaway, it's a great shopping fix and you don't need to pay for it(well not all at once anyway) At this rate if I keep adding stuff I'll have the layaway out by next xmas..... :rolleyes:

I love CREDIT CARDS! ! !

Hisgal- I do that too. That'll get you some strange looks at the Home Depot. "It's ALREADY IN THE BAG, you stupid machine!!!" Only my Home Depot only has like 3 employees, so if you get hung up in the self-check, you're in limbo for 10 minutes.

Loz- maybe I can help you get that annoying song out of your head. "It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all, it's a small world after all, it's a small, SMALLLL WORRRRLD!!" heheheheheheh

Not if you do what I did!

I screamed at it VERY loudly "You can't HANDLE the truth!"

I got assistance pretty fast!


And, THANKS geegeeburr.....
I didn't have a stupid song stuck in MY head until you did that!


Cindy

a song stuck in your head?? what??

This is the song that doesn't end
Yes it goes on and on my friends
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was
And they'll continue singing it forever just because...
This is the song that doesn't end...

Boy, this could be a REALLY l-o-n-g post!!!

Does this help....push play! Small world
Tee hee hee
Catlover

Geegeeburr.....thank you so much for ridding me of one song only to move to the next....

Could be worse, a few days ago in Walmart I was humming Dora the Explorer to myself.......Too much babysitting of the niece I'd say....lol

Cindy......Credit Cards are evil....yep, I deem them so......They got me in serious trouble when I was about 18......I was making about 10,000 a year back then and what do they do....they give me a 3500 credit limit......and I got a sears card, and a Pennys card, and a Bon-Ton card.... Thank God for parents that's all I have to say.........all we have now is debit cards....I really, really learned my lesson....it was a terrible cycle....go buy clothes, junk, whatever....feel bad about it, so go shopping again the next day to feel better..... :rolleyes:

And ya know what, loz?
After you start screwing up they RAISE YOUR CREDIT LIMIT!

And offer you MORE cards!

Been there, done that!

Thanks, Catlover...I'm so stupid I actually pushed the button!


Cindy

We get credit card offers in our names all the time.........they just get ripped up and thrown in the trash.....No more credit cards for loz....not me, nope...I'm the super shopper and they get me into waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too much trouble.......Now we pay everything with cash or debit.....

And Cindy, are you singing now????LOL <img border="0" alt="[clappy]" title="" src="graemlins/clappy.gif" />

ROFL. I'm sorry, guys. I used to work with this guy who would have song-sticking BATTLES with me. Every time he saw me he'd start singing some d#@* annoying song, then he'd laugh like crazy when I'd start singing it. He gave me Small World once, and it was stuck in my stupid head for THREE DAYS. But I got even. The next time I saw him, I started singing the Meow Mix song.
Meow, meow, meow, meow
Meow, meow, meow, meow,
Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow..... I don't even know how long he had that stuck in his head, but he never forgave me.
And I apologize in advance to all of you who are now infected with the Meow Mix song...

My usual one is "Green Acres" theme song.

Coming in second: "Beverly Hillbillies"!

Right now, and all afternoon, it's been...
...thanks to catlover....
"SMALL WORLD!"

Did that help?



G-Mom

Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Head and shoulders knees and toes, knees and toes toes toes toes. Eyes and ears and a mouth and a nose. Head and shoulders knees and toes.

G-Mom, you KNOW that drives me CRAZY!

And, Catlover is just.... EVIL at this point!


But, since the head shoulders knees and toes was last...well, I guess Ill be singing that in my sleep!


Cindy

Oh crap. Well, I guess it's me and the Skipper and the fearless crew for the next couple of days.

Hee,Hee,Hee

G-Mom

Yep, that's a bad one!

One day when I picked Brennan up from school I told him I had a stupid song stuck in my head, so I wanted him to sing something to get it OUT!

Well, he starts boppin' up and down singin' "George, George...George of the jungle"!


Whoa! That was WAY worse than the one I already had!




Cindy

Thats what all of Georges friends(George=Hubby) sing to him when they are picking on him

G-Mom

And, ever since I typed that I've had it in my head!

THE MADNESS NEVER STOPS! ! !

Just give in to it Cindy....I thought what the heck, pulled out the xmas CD and actually listened to the song Winter Wonderland thinking it would help me get it out of my head......stupid, I know....I was trying to play reverse psychology on my brain....lol I think it actually worked a little, although now I'm stuck with We wish you a merry christmas.... :p

I guess I just can't win. :rolleyes:

Oh, no! George of the Jungle! Just when you think it can't get any worse. ROFLMAO.

Well, I don't have a "George of the Jungle" song to listen to, but I'm sure Catlover can hook me up with it!

Oh no, margaritaville just came on the radio...I have a feeling I'll be singing it for hours now....although I guess it's better than we wish you a merry christmas...

Thank you! Maybe I'll start singing that now!
I like that one, and have the mp3 on the computer.....except I don't want to play anything loud and wake Lola up and have her singing "Margaritaville" in her bedroom!

Hee,Hee

G-Mom

You actually know the words to the song?

That's SICK! ! ! ! !!

Cindy

Darn I looked all over and couldn't find this one...
Theme song from Jeopardy!

I think it's worse when you only know the chorus to a song, then it just the same short part going over and over and over again in your head....kind of like the chinese torture treatment....

You all know what drives me nuts more than anything in the entire world???? Repetetive noises......I'm serious. If mark is constantly opening and closing his zippo it drives me nuts....bonkers....or tapping his foot.....God knows why, it's one of those strange things that plagues me.....one of many..... :rolleyes:

(tap...tap....tap...)

LOL.....thanks Cindy, that's so kind of you... :p

oooooo,that's weird.That happened to me today.I was in my bedroom reading,next to the front porch.Usually I can tune anything out(I have 4 kids)but the squeal/squeak of the porch swing by my sweetie was really getting on my nerves.I asked him to sit still or fix it.Oh yes indeedy,he fixed it.
Then he comes in the house,puts the tv on...good grief...
"Welcome to the jungle,it gets worse here every day"


mercy....maybe I have some garden guilt.

I think guys/boys are the worst for those annoying repetitive noises. From my little boy I'm constantly listening to vroom,vroom, vroom, tap,tap,tap.....how come everything can be a car?

You know, you'd THINK that the constant "vroom" noise would make their mouth sore after awhile!
With little boys, life is nothing but a Hotwheels!

Little??? Lets just say all men in general!! Cuase mine is NOT little and he's STILL into hotwheels....except now they are "big kid toys".

The difference between the men & the boys is the price of thier toys.

Meg

Speaking of horrible songs being stuck in your hear- VH1 Classics must have been having an "all-crap" day today, and now I have "We Built This City on Rock and Roll" rattling around in my brain.

A little tune to help you forget the other one

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
His name is my name too
Whenever I go out
the people always shout
There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
na na na na na na na na

Hee,Hee

G-mom

Gee, thanks for sucking me into clicking on this post!

:p


Cindy

na na na na na na na na



G-Mom

Are you trying to provoke me into using one of those banned graemlins I have?

Oh Gawd! It's like the Bermuda Triangle of the gardenhelper, we keep getting sucked in and twirled around in here and can't escape until we've posted an annoying song......I've been singing this one at work for 3 weeks..

Froggie went-a-courting and he did ride, uh huh
Froggie went-a-courting and he did ride, uh huh
Froggie went-a-courting and he did ride, with a sword and a pistol by his side, uh huh.........

O.K. I am NOT clicking on this post again!

I've got them too :rolleyes:

na na na na na na na na

G-Mom

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip,
That started from this tropic port,
Aboard this tiny ship.

The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day,
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.

The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew,
The Minnow would be lost, the minnow would be lost.

The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle,
With Gilligan, The Skipper too, the millionaire and his wife,
The movie star, the professor and Mary Ann,
Here on Gilligans Isle.


G-Mom

CINDY, COME QUICK , YOU HAVE TO , YOU HAVE TO , I NEED YOU TO COME HERE FOR A MINUTE!!!!!!


COME IN COME IN

I thought I could click on a post and NOT reply, then you wouldn't know I was here!

GOOD Mel!

G-mom

Joy to the world,
all the boys and girls,
singin' Joy to the world!!!
And the fishes in the deep blue sea,
Joy to you and me!!!

And I helped him a drink his wine,
and a very fine wine he had..

Oh, help me out and fill in the spots, will some one!!

Weezie

Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a-drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine
Singin´...
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
If I were the king of the world
Tell you what I´d do
I´d throw away the cars and the bars and the war
Make sweet love to you
Sing it now...
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

------ electric piano ------
You know I love the ladies
Love to have my fun
I´m a high life flyer and a rainbow rider
A straigh! t shootin´ son-of-a-gun (oh yeah)
I said a straight shootin´ son-of-a-gun
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the world
Joy to you and me
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
I wanna tell you
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
(fading)
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls !

G-Mom

Click on "realaudio"

You all are just SICK AND TWISTED! ! ! ! !

I'm going to the country........


I'm going up the country, babe don't you wanna go
I'm going up the country, babe don't you wanna go
I'm going to some place where I've never been before
I'm going, I'm going where the water tastes like wine
Well I'm going where the water tastes like wine
We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time
I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away
I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away
All this fussing and fighting, man, you know I sure can't stay
Now baby, pack your leaving trunk, you know we've got to leave today
Just exactly where we're going I cannot say, but We might even leave
the USA 'Cause there's a brand new game that I want to play
No use of you running, or screaming and crying
'Cause you've got a home as long as I've got mine

Weezie... I would never have thought YOU would join them in trying to DRIVE ME CRAZY! ! !




Cindy

Oh, God! The last song I hear always sticks in my head!
And, it's almost bedtime!

Hey, I sing John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmitt and Froggie Went Courtin' to my baby all the time. In fact, I love that somebody posted the lyrics to Froggie! And hey, AFGrey, if you have to have a song stuck in your head, a Three Dog Night tune isn't a bad one to have.

But um, Weezie? What is that song you posted? Never heard of it.

Went to our super walmart today to pay off my moms layaway with her.....so we get back to the counter and she has about 8 boxes of stuff....so we waited and waited for her to bring them out....then one of the boxes is in a trailer outside...so management had to be paged to come with the key :rolleyes: .....so, mom said "No sense in you standing here waiting, go on ahead".....My chance to break free from the misery of layaway.."Sure, I said...I'll be up at the books/cards......" .....after searching for hours and hours.....I've grown to hate the layaway department......one person working the entire thing......and about 8 people were in line behind my mom.....so the whole time the woman was looking for moms box nobody was getting waited on....

These are some of the joys of preparing for Christmas I suppose....long lines, rude people, and a sense of sheer relief when you finally make it out of the store alive.....

What's up with that, you reckon? Tell me about it!
If I go to Wal-Mart in a ragged t-shirt, no make-up and my hair pulled back in a ponytail, I can ASSURE you I will run into an old boyfriend!
I HATE when that happens!

Cindy

One time I spent an hour looking for my dad.....now it's a super walmart so it's pretty big......I guess we were both looking for each other and walking in a big circle the same way, we were just always one behind the other, and not catching up to each other.... Those mysterious forces in walmart are bad for poofing people away....

And I run into people ALL the time on the days where I just throw a hat baseball cap on, thinking I'll be in and out in 5 minutes nobody will see me.....

Why is it that we never run into the ex boyfriends when we're looking really fantastic? :p

Because..........God has a sense of HUMOR!




G-Mom

I hear ya.. if I'm with someone else and we separate in walmart.. surely we'll not find each other for an hour! (Unless we both have our cell phones on, and we can get a signal!)

BUT... I go in.. and I don't know a lot of folks here.. but I go in for a quick something, and I'll find my boss/friend there, the other couple I know because Steve works with the guy and that's how we met them, or one of the school's teachers I know/recognize. It's freaky.

Meg

My friend and I lose each other all the time at Walmarts and then think of creative ways to page each other over the loudspeakers........My favorite was asking the service desk to page "Phil McCrackin" to the courtesy desk.

Cindy,
Sorry I"m late with this, been workin' real hard these last few days, doing stuff...

Didn't mean to, Sowwwwwwwwwwy!

***Geegeeburr,
Which song was that????
The last one?
Or the Frog one drinkin' wine?
And how old are you?? *well, you don't have to tell me actually!!!! * but they were from the 70's...

*Loz,
I jokin'ly around like that all the time in the store when I go with my mom, she'll go one way and I'll go another, and then we start looking for each other, and I'll be "I lost my mommy" like a little one and the ladies get a kick out of it, after they realize I'm jokin'!

My husband and I carry our cell phones... he goes with the kids and looks at the toys, and the electronics for computer/ps2 stuff, and I go to the baby section and the house wares section and then to the grocery section and then when they come looking for me, he's not spending 3 days looking for me!!! I like that, then he's not madder than a wet hen lookin' for me!


****Mel,
Then you have to ask for Phil McCrevis, and your two cousin's; Gerald FitzPatrick and Patrick FitzGerald,.......oh, I had one more, but isn't approperiate!!! Ooops!

Weezie

Could you imagine what my post count would be if I posted seperate sometimes??? :rolleyes:

23,867,576,350

Bill would have to stretch your gold bar all the way across the bottom!


Cindy

Weezie

Oh, but you must PM that one to me !!

...and then YOU must PM it to ME!

Okay, PM'd you both!!!

Good one!