Wilson Avenue, CR. One of those fringe Hy Vees bordering on one of the poorer sections of town, but also 5 minutes away from one of the newer, more well to do parts. Most times you see a good mashup of people, some decent MILF's on Saturday mornings, with a bunch of Kirkwood gals thrown in year round.
Today, I have never seen such a conglomeration of poor white trash at that HV in 15 years of shopping there. It was quite stunning - my buddy home from northern MN asked me, is it always like this? We've been here before, and it's never been like this before. I agreed...
The lowlights...
1) there were 3 women, all fugly as can be, that both looked like they just woke up, and effectively were topless. One woman looked like she was wearing a braless see-through negligee top from say 1984. The other two were wearing wifebeater type tops who had no business whatsoever going braless.
My eyes will forever be scorched...THAT bad. The said negligee gal was two people ahead of me in my line...and when I got to where it was my time, I noticed the college age gal was chuckling (she's been there for a couple years and we chat it up, she knows me - beautiful, sweet gal). I say to her, "that was...interesting". She replies "it's been like that all morning", still shaking her head with a WTF look on her face. My buddy goes to her, "do you sell those airline barf bags, cause I need one."
2) there were a whole lotta angry shoppers there. Because of what, no clue, for the checkout lines were doing fine and it wasn't that busy at all. Couples shouting at each other in the aisle, nobody knowing really how to push a cart when others were in the same aisle. One guy was pissed off that he couldn't use a coupon for bottled water for one specific brand for the brand he wanted to buy, and a 5 minute argument ensued with the checkout gal, the floor manager, etc.
But the one that still makes my head spin was when I left and pulled out of my parking space (which was pretty close to the front doors), there was a vehicle in front of me waiting for the crosswalk to empty - so I was stuck waiting for both to clear.
An old "I don't have my dentures in" looking lady in a broken down Impala was behind me and apparently wanted my parking space. I had nowhere to go. Eventually the traffic in front of me cleared in about 60 seconds - but the old lady, after parking and after I looped around to exit, walked IN FRONT OF MY CAR to bitch to me about blocking her spot.
3) I was there roughly 20 minutes. Holidays at Hy Vee, usually the entire store is on sale aggressively, so I like to peruse every aisle. When I first started shopping, I noticed (because of a thread earlier this week about this very type of cell phone talker) a young woman talking on her cell phone Star Trek Communicator style, looked like she just got there, empty cart. Effectively shouting, phone turned up all the way. You could hear the conversation a good half aisle length away.
When I pulled up to get in line, I saw her again. Still talking on the phone, about halfway through the store.
Cart still empty.
Just a weird time overall...note to self, don't grocery shop on the 4th.
Today, I have never seen such a conglomeration of poor white trash at that HV in 15 years of shopping there. It was quite stunning - my buddy home from northern MN asked me, is it always like this? We've been here before, and it's never been like this before. I agreed...
The lowlights...
1) there were 3 women, all fugly as can be, that both looked like they just woke up, and effectively were topless. One woman looked like she was wearing a braless see-through negligee top from say 1984. The other two were wearing wifebeater type tops who had no business whatsoever going braless.
My eyes will forever be scorched...THAT bad. The said negligee gal was two people ahead of me in my line...and when I got to where it was my time, I noticed the college age gal was chuckling (she's been there for a couple years and we chat it up, she knows me - beautiful, sweet gal). I say to her, "that was...interesting". She replies "it's been like that all morning", still shaking her head with a WTF look on her face. My buddy goes to her, "do you sell those airline barf bags, cause I need one."
2) there were a whole lotta angry shoppers there. Because of what, no clue, for the checkout lines were doing fine and it wasn't that busy at all. Couples shouting at each other in the aisle, nobody knowing really how to push a cart when others were in the same aisle. One guy was pissed off that he couldn't use a coupon for bottled water for one specific brand for the brand he wanted to buy, and a 5 minute argument ensued with the checkout gal, the floor manager, etc.
But the one that still makes my head spin was when I left and pulled out of my parking space (which was pretty close to the front doors), there was a vehicle in front of me waiting for the crosswalk to empty - so I was stuck waiting for both to clear.
An old "I don't have my dentures in" looking lady in a broken down Impala was behind me and apparently wanted my parking space. I had nowhere to go. Eventually the traffic in front of me cleared in about 60 seconds - but the old lady, after parking and after I looped around to exit, walked IN FRONT OF MY CAR to bitch to me about blocking her spot.
3) I was there roughly 20 minutes. Holidays at Hy Vee, usually the entire store is on sale aggressively, so I like to peruse every aisle. When I first started shopping, I noticed (because of a thread earlier this week about this very type of cell phone talker) a young woman talking on her cell phone Star Trek Communicator style, looked like she just got there, empty cart. Effectively shouting, phone turned up all the way. You could hear the conversation a good half aisle length away.
When I pulled up to get in line, I saw her again. Still talking on the phone, about halfway through the store.
Cart still empty.
Just a weird time overall...note to self, don't grocery shop on the 4th.
