Don't come to Fayetteville, it's like a nighttime hot spot here. People hang out in the parking lot, all the freaks are there.
Jim Davis wrote: > As per usual since our massive reorg at the office I've been working all > weekend. A few hours ago my router seemed to crap the bed... kept shutting > down/rebooting every 30 seconds or so. > > So after some frustrating debugging (it's hard to debug a device that's only > active for 20 seconds at a time) I decided to hit up the local 24-hour > Walmart and pick up a cheapy one until I could order a decent one. Got > there at a little after midnight. > > Walked in... the place wasn't packed, but there were a hell of a lot more > people than I expected (I'm in Scranton, PA... not exactly what you'd call a > nightlife). Four registers were open but there were at least 20 people in > each line. > > So I make my way to the back of the store, grab up one of the many LinkSys > WRT54G's they got and head back up front. On the way I passed the Blu-Ray > rack so I treated myself to the "Blade Runner" 5 Disc collector's edition > (only $25!) and a bag of Reeses' Miniatures (on sale!). I get in that > surprisingly long line. > > I had a lot of time to people watch in my nearly 30 minutes in line. > > At least seven people had children under 5 with them. One kid started > crying and throwing a tantrum... tossing stuff out of the cart and > screaming. The mother kept saying "Stop this right now!" or "I'm not > bringing you here again" and I kept thinking "Serves you right for bringing > a four-year out at midnight you silly bitch". > > The entire time I was in line I heard no English except from the cashier... > the three latino guys in front of me were all looked disapprovingly at the > mother with the screaming kid so I mentally branded them "Okay". The two > asian kids behind were openly laughing at her so I mentally branded them > "idiots". > > The idiots were apparently shopping on the "I gotta get me one of them!" > plan... they had (among many other things) a Guitar (because we all know > that if you want a guitar Walmart is the place to go), several packages of > "Justice League" underpants and a reading lamp. > > The group in front of me were more enigmatic. Each member of the group had > two items: > > +) Oldest guy had a paperback book and a large rollaway suitcase. > > +) Middle-age guy had a giant (at least half-a-gallon) dispenser of > "Dove" hand lotion and a small box of frozen fish sticks. > > +) The junior member of the group had one of those super-cheap CDs > of "nature sounds" and a large, "family size" tube of Crest toothpaste. > > As I was leaving I entered into a minor argument: apparently somebody had > stopped their car to let a woman with a baby carriage cross into the parking > lot. However that woman didn't actually want to cross. The woman in the > car was waving her over and the woman with the baby was waving her away. > > All told it was a truly surreal little trip. Next time I get insomnia I > might just drive to the Walmart, find a nice quiet corner and people watch. > > Oh - good news is that my router is actually fine. It was the transformer > that went. Using the transformer from the new one with the old router fixed > everything. To my knowledge this is the first time I've ever had a > transformer go... > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:271167 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
