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So, I bowed to my poverty today and shopped at WalMart for the first time in 10 years…and I will NOT be doing that again. I did get diapers for 5 bucks, but it wasn’t worth my sanity, my cleanliness, or my SOUL.
It was exactly what I expect WalMart to be – dirty, smelly, full of rude people, and generally yucky. My cart was sticky, the whole place smelled like pee and cheap plastic, the cashier sneezed in her open hand and proceeded to scan all my items with her germy hand, and in the 30 minutes I was in the place, I witnessed two women abusing their children. One woman said to her three or four year old, and I quote, “If you ask for your father one more time, I’m shipping you off to Iraq with him.” How pleasant. About 5 minutes later, I watched a young mother slap her 5 month old baby and tell her to “Quit whining!”
You know, statistically, if people were abusing their kids at Target, I would have seen it by now. I’ve been to Target about 500 times in my life, and I’ve been to WalMart about 5 times. Yet, every time I’ve been in WalMart, I witness something morally reprehensible…seems statistically off, doesn’t it??
I just felt disgusted, and disgusting, when I left. I literally had the urge to leave my $30.00 of crap in the cart and run screaming into Target. I totally reminded myself of why I do not shop at WalMart. You know, in addition to them treating their employees like garbage, giving money to Dubya, and censoring their DVDs and CDs…it’s just nasty. I slathered myself and my daughter in hand sanitizer when we left.
