Tag Archives: Wal-Mart

Math

Math

Here’s an email forward that I received recently and found to be cute.

Last week I purchased a burger at Burger King for $1.58. The counter girl took my $2 and I dug in my pocket for 8 cents and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while [...]

If you’re going to be stupid, you have to be smart about it.

If you’re going to be stupid, you have to be smart about it.

Recently an event came to my attention that inclined me to spontaneously spout the following:
You know… if you’re gonna’ be stupid, you gotta’ be smart about it.
I love one-liners, and the poetry of this one rang true in my ears as soon as it left my lips. I quickly Googled to see if anyone [...]

Trip to the Mall

Trip to the Mall

So I go to the mall. Our mall is a big mall… and is in the center of New York’s Capital Region. It used to be quite a weekend attraction for teenagers with nothing to do with their life, until mall officials mercifully put a restriction on un-chaperoned youth under 18 after 4pm [...]

Wal-Mart workers will be trained to spot cuckoos… and their little dogs, too.

Wal-Mart workers will be trained to spot cuckoos… and their little dogs, too.

Have you ever finished a news story with a totally different impression of the reported scenario than you started with? I did recently. I saw a headline saying “Wal-Mart turns away helper dog” in my local newspaper and I instantly pictured some old curmudgeonly “greeter” chasing away some little blind girl’s seeing-eye-”varmint”. [...]