Lessons learned by a 4.. err.. 37 year old WalMart shopper..

Soo, I was toolin around in WalMart last night after work and I learned a few things during my time there.  : )..

1. The only time you ever need a cart is when you don't think that you would and really wished you had stopped and grabbed one.  Sorry to shoppers who have abandoned a cart in the back of the store.  Ha! Emo Phillips said it best, "I When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.  (Just kidding, I actually knew I would need one and grabbed one on my way past the corral this time.)

2. WalMart's new exercise program is very effective!  Now where did they move the tortilla chips?  Did I miss the aisle?  Oooh.  Yeah.  They are at the back of the store, right next to where I was earlier, grabbing a huge bag of cat food!  The Walton's are a slick bunch.  That and the fact they are probably betting you will find a few more things to buy on the way back to where you need to be.

3. You don't always get good cell phone coverage and get more exercise from moving around, looking for a signal because you are waiting and waiting and waiting for a call to get scripts re-filled and your on-call doctor takes three pages and the answering service staff to call him directly and transfer him to you.  Hey!  Doesn't WalMart sell cell phone service?  Hmm.  It's not a Verizon stand is it?  Can you hear me now?  Devious!  Lol.

4. You can't always judge a book by it's cover.  I sometimes get cynical that the youth of the world still possess manners and will use them.  It was refreshing to find one young man who still had his manners in tact.  He sat down next to me while I still waited for the doctor's call and opened a small, worn, aged pocket sized book in his hand.  A few minutes later, he asked politely to borrow a pen and we struck up a nice conversation about what was wrong with others and their lack of manners and morals.  We decided that tv and video games were to blame, as well as dumb commercials where society spaces out and then wonders why did we actually sit through a dumb commercial.  There are definitely some stupid ones out there, even if they are funny!  I need a Schticky!  He said the book was his father's and that he has a lot of them.  It was from 1953.  He said that he likes to (Ack!) read books instead of play with apps on cell phones.  I was glad that I didn't have mine going at the time.  : )..  He turned out to be a nice, polite, respectful, smart young whippersnapper.  Nice to find one of those now and then.  It doesn't happen often.

5. Waiting in the pharmacy aisle, sitting across from the 88 cent discount medication and supplies area, I realized, there were some items included there that you might not actually want to skimp on prices and pick the more costly brand.  Ha.  I will leave it at that.

6. WalMart now sells a personal OnStar service called 5Star Urgent Response.  It's a paid service for about $14 a month, where you are never more than a click away from 911 or other various services, such as Ask A Nurse.  Pretty neat if you ask me.  If it is dark, you can call to ask for an escort to your car or from your car to your house.  If you are locked out, it will direct you to a service to help.  If you arrive home and find your door open when it shouldn't...  The list went on and on.  Here's the picture of it...  Lol.  Yeah..  I had a bit of time to kill.

7. And finally.  Last but certainly not least! A watched pot never boils (sadly, I also needed my mother to have told me that they also don't boil if you don't turn the burner on recently.  Ha!  Now why isn't my water getting warm?  Oooh yeah.  Durr.), and a watched pharmacist never rushes.  I was beginning to have flashbacks of "My Name Is Earl" and their Y2K! episode.  : )..  Y2K!  Y2K!  One of my favorites of theirs.  Lol.  It took well over two hours to finally make it out of there with everything in hand.  Whew.  Awesome.