[Justin Kenny] Monday, December 01, 2008 11:41:34 AM
Lord...it never ceases to amaze me what can transpire in a matter of 4 days or so....seems once again this site is in danger of losing otherwise GOOD people because more of the proverbial shit has begun to needlessly annihilate the 'fan' for which it invariably targets.
Add to this, the events of the last three days on a more grand scale. I simply cannot get over the non-sensical bull-rush ethic I heard about this past weekend once 'Black Friday' hit. I mean...my God...an older, part-time employee of a Wal-Mart branch in Valley Stream, NY (which is about 40 minutes from where I used to live on Long Island) gets trampled to death just trying to open the feckin' store!!!?? Then I hear about two employees of another store that were shot (whether or not it had anything to do with the shopping rush has yet to be determined at this time)??
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!!!???
Alright...I know...it's the biggest shopping day that gets the holiday shopping kicked off in earnest. It's a pathetic time economically, and a lotta retailers are trying in vain to compete for whatever spending dollar consumers are willing to shell out...I get it...honestly, I do. But fer Chrissakes...does it REALLY gotta be about life and death?? Must this reduce otherwise rational, sane (I think?) people to regress some 10,000 years in order to obtain one or two coveted items?? I sure hope those who espouse the beliefs of the 'big-bang/evolutionary' theories have re-tooled their thinking as to just how advanced a race we humans have evolved into...because some of what I saw and heard would make me wonder like a sonuvabitch were I of the same order of thinking/belief...lemme tell ya! The only things missing were the overtly hairy bodies, a few mace clubs, and some added grunts and other guttural noises as a means of communicating (and while I think about it, I did see some of that too)!!! Know what gets my goat too?? The fact that once the Valley Stream police got the Wal-Mart evacuated, people had the nerve to complain.....you believe this!?? COMPLAIN....even after they heard about what had happened!!! Then, my wife tells me she overheard that there was a fight in the electronics department in the Wal-Mart by us because someone had the nerve to swipe a TV clean out of the shopping cart right in front of the person who had it in there in the first place!!!
Unreal....I mean that....absolutely UNreal. And people wonder why there are some of this world who have this abject hatred when it comes to holidays. I don't...I know what it's supposed to represent and what it's supposed to mean, and it will always be that way...but there are a vast number of people who really need a goddamn clue and in a bigger goddamn hurry.
