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  • #1

    You Need to Reassess Your Priorities

    Anyone in the upper midwest knows we're having quite a winter here. Overnight another 6 or so inches on top of the 28 inches we received in December (with little to no melting). We also have had an intense cold front plow through and temps have not gotten above 5 degree farenheit for quite some time...

    Simply put, the authorities are saying - 'Don't Go Outside Unless It Is An Emergency'. The interstate just west of our mall is closed. Schools are closed.

    So, tell me why, in people's infinite wisdom, do they feel a need to run out to a Sporting Goods store to 'look'? I understand when we get the first morning run of construction guys who either need some new gloves, baselayer, socks or boots. I can even understand the ice fisherman running in for some minnows and grubs. I'll even overlook the person who comes in, asks where our winter boots are and dashes right off to the shop.

    But, I get a little chapped when most of my customers are well-coiffed women dragging kids around in this weather to 'look'. You MUST have had a purpose venturing out in this icebox of skin-blistering wind. And I don't think it's fair to drag your kids out in this while you check out completely seasonally inappropriate t-shirts and start whining at me about why don't we have *popular college team's* bowl win merchandise yet. Perhaps it's not here because even our trucks aren't moving in this weather!

    Bonus points if you and your little darlings walk into my store from the frigid parking lot NOT wearing proper winter coats... You're stupid and I hope you fall in a drift and freeze.

    Whatever became of a little common sense?
    Just to cut off any helpful suggestions: This woman was not blind, nor disabled. She was just a bitch. - Boozy
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    Quoth MiddleofNowhere View Post
    Whatever became of a little common sense?
    Common sense was killed off long ago... or at least it seems it was.

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    • #3
      Just playing devil's advocate, but I'd like to offer an explanation. I spent 4 days over Christmas snowed-in with my brother, his wife and baby, and my father. I meant to spend one day. One! It was nice to see family, but good manners were wearing thin. Keeping cooped up because you couldn't go anywhere made things all the worse. Even though roads weren't cleared and were dangerous, we most definitely went shopping by day three. And the poor ladies at Subway looked shocked by the rush of customers, desperate to get away from home.

      So yes, sometimes people will just "look". The other option is strangling those inappropriately dressed children that are bouncing off the walls at home.
      A lion however, will only devour your corpse, whereas an SC is not sated until they have destroyed your soul. (Quote per infinitemonkies)

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      • #4
        Strangling is preferred to stabbing, as stabbing always makes quite a mess.
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        Melody Gardot

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        • #5
          If theyre going to drag the kids out of the house ( i understa,nd the being cooped up feeling) the least they can do is dress them weather appropriately. Poor, cold kiddies.

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          • #6
            Middleofnowhere: I may have asked this before at some point, but what does the sign in your avatar say?

            Bonus points if you and your little darlings walk into my store from the frigid parking lot NOT wearing proper winter coats... You're stupid and I hope you fall in a drift and freeze.
            No kids, and it doesn't get as cold here as it does there... but people get after me all the time for not wearing a coat. A couple of nights ago it was around 20F and I was outside in short sleeves. Why? Because I wasn't going to be out there long enough for it to be worthwhile. The house is warm. The car is... well, cold, but it will be warm inside of five minutes and I can't take my coat off while driving and would be too warm with it still on. At the store, it would take nearly as long standing out in the cold putting the coat on as it would to walk to the nice, warm inside of the store, etc. If it were colder here I'd probably wear a sweater or something, but as it is I only put on anything extra if I'm staying outside, including outside the car, for more than a few minutes.
            Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

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            • #7
              I'll never understand it, either.

              We got a nice Christmas Ice/Slush storm.....and Christmas Day, my dad was driving me home, and the theater closest to my apartment was just PACKED.

              While I can't excuse not properly dressing kids for cold weather, I can excuse adults.

              Going to the mall or other big storms in the freezing cold, if I wear my huge jacket and bring it inside, I will start sweltering. So it's not odd to see me freeze my butt off walking into the mall or back to my car.....but the times I have brought my big coat, I have almost fallen over because I was too warm.
              You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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              • #8
                I dunno about snow, but cabin fever with any inclement weather (particularly hurricanes for my neck of the woods) drives you up the wall. In all seriousness, at least dress appropriately and take the kiddies out somewhere they can have a little fun or something...a park maybe.
                I don't get paid enough to kiss your a**! -Groezig 5/31/08
                Another day...another million braincells lost...-Sarlon 6/16/08
                Chivalry is not dead. It's just direly underappreciated. -Samaliel 9/15/09

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                • #9
                  I got snowed in for about 3 days a few years ago. I live alone, but even so, by the morning of day 3, I had to get out. For one thing, I think I found the end of the interwebs and for another, I needed food. (No, I wasn't stocked up. For one thing, we rarely get storms like that and that one broke 50-year-old records. For another, the storm was supposed to be in and out, not decide to park on top of us and rotate.)
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                  • #10
                    Quoth HYHYBT View Post
                    Middleofnowhere: I may have asked this before at some point, but what does the sign in your avatar say?

                    No kids, and it doesn't get as cold here as it does there... but people get after me all the time for not wearing a coat. A couple of nights ago it was around 20F and I was outside in short sleeves. Why? Because I wasn't going to be out there long enough for it to be worthwhile. The house is warm. The car is... well, cold, but it will be warm inside of five minutes and I can't take my coat off while driving and would be too warm with it still on. At the store, it would take nearly as long standing out in the cold putting the coat on as it would to walk to the nice, warm inside of the store, etc. If it were colder here I'd probably wear a sweater or something, but as it is I only put on anything extra if I'm staying outside, including outside the car, for more than a few minutes.
                    The sign reads, 'Point of No Return', it is at the first big hill on a classic wooden roller coaster in my homestate.
                    Just to cut off any helpful suggestions: This woman was not blind, nor disabled. She was just a bitch. - Boozy

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