[lit-ideas] Re: Sustained Incongruencies
- From: Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 19:12:55 EDT
In a message dated 4/2/2006 5:37:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I shop at Wal-Mart. If you think I shouldn't, then let me know where I
should shop. In the meantime, I really, really, really would appreciate it if
you would stop dragging me into your posts. I know you'll keep doing it, but
I
thought I'd ask anyway.
Hi, Irene/Andy!
I'm sorry--and I DO try not to use you as either an example or to address
you -- and apologize for failing yet again! (so, you are probably right, I'll
probably keep on doing it--perhaps you hopefully will take it as a
compliment...maybe there is a part of you which is like a part of me and so
that is who
I am really addressing, right? <wry look> Please know I mean nothing
disrespectful to either you or to me!)
I don't think I'll explain my post too much as it was not really that deep
of a subject and probably not worth much more than the time it takes to write
this. So, all may feel very free to not read past this moment!
But, if you did (like I probably would ... ), all I was trying to suggest
that the person who wanted to consider himself a great painter might be or
might
have been...but Walmart was sucking the creative life out of the
fellow--and, not only him, but all who had shopped there.
Then, I was reminded of one of your posts (there was a fray going on at the
time) in which you stated you had been to Walmart. [It was probably an aside
but I remember the most peculiar things...] and so thought maybe everytime
there was a fray going on that maybe people had been to Walmart.
It was, really, nothing personal--and probably should have just said that
'someone once, during a fray, stated he/she had been to Walmart'.
I'll try to do better next time!
As far as shopping elsewhere--I don't have many answers for you ... I used
to never shop there...eventually succumbed. Though I prefer to shop at Target
because at least they, a year or so ago, went through the products they sell
and made sure that they were not being made in sweatshops. Perhaps still being
paid less than pennies for the work, mind, but at least not locked in at
night! The young man doing the work for me, though, has chosen to charge me
extra by getting the stuff at more of the small business world in order to
finish my basement, etc. It was a bit of a shocker at first but the quality is
better...(though it is the basement so in a way, who cares...?) and I had been
reminded of my values of when I was younger than I am now!
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