It must have been my lucky day yesterday. Whenever I head to Wal-Mart, I get my hopes up. I get that excited feeling, the feeling that this trip will be different than all the other ones. We all do it. But it seems like every time, we all leave the same – disappointed.
But not last night!
I stopped by after work to grab some quick groceries, and as I exit the car I got my hopes up as usual. I hoped for the best, but I fully expected to leave the store discouraged, like so many other Wal-Mart runs. But this day was different!
Finally, finally, after dozens and dozens of Wal-Mart shopping trips – I get a cart with four working wheels!
Seriously! I didn’t get any pics, but I’m telling the truth, I swear! All the wheels worked. No “klunk klunk klunk” as I wander through the store, no horrible skidding, scraping wheel sound. No irritated looks from strangers as I struggle down the aisle. I know you probably don’t believe me, that I made it all up, but it happened. It was awesome.
Oh, new action figures? yeah, well, I didn’t find any of those. But the cart! Oh, the cart…
it was joyous.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
It’s funny for me, cause just two days ago I was in a Walmart with a F-ed up cart I was thinking to myself how ridiculous their carts are. I feel your joy.
And here I was expecting you to have found a fresh case of Kenner Super Powers, or something, on the pegs.
There’s still that obscure general store in Montana with 20+ year-old cases waiting to be found…
ROTFL! Great blog!
Peace,
Chip
I have a hole in my leg still from their damn carts.
I was pushing one quite fast at the crappy Garland Wal-Mart and the wheel suddenly jammed and stopped dead. I kept going, of course, and my bare leg went into the metal crossbar. I cracked my shin so hard, it pushed a dent into my leg and bled through the skin. I blacked out for a second it hurt so bad.
To this day, I have a shallow depression in my shin that has never healed.
Thanks a lot Wal-Mart!
PS The views of this post do not reflect the views of the author when he is a at work, where he loves Walmart® and all it stands for.
Ha! Awesome :0)
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Around here in Northern NJ, there is no WalMart over about 6 years old, so ALL the WalMart carts here are like brand new smooth and quite, now K-Mart carts on the other hand
I would feel that overjoyed if I could just meet a Walmart employee who was actually FRIENDLY and who had a personality!
Nearly every Walmart employee I’ve ever dealt with has acted like they were ticked off about something… no greeting (“Hello, how are you?”), and they don’t even say “thank you” when you buy something. The least they could do is say “Thank you for coming into our crappy store when you could have just as easily gone down the street to Target.”
Now I know why Walmart has those nice little old men and ladies greeting you at the entrance and exit… because the employees on the inside of the store act like total A-holes!
But I guess if I was stuck working at Walmart, I’d have a crappy attitude too.
Woah, thats up there with the time I found unmasked mm bats, congrats!
Thanks, I just laughed my ass off at 3 am. I gotta read this blog more often. Thanks for sharing, you do realize now that we cant go into a walmart without thinking about this story?