Last night, shortly before going to bed, I listened to the
Blue Scholars song "
Proletariat Blues." As a consequence, I had a nightmare about a horrible retail job. I worked in some sort of big retail store--I don't remember what kind. At the end of the nightmare, I was running through the parking lot, wearing socks but no shoes. I'm not sure
(
Read more... )
Comments 15
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Scroll down to "other ways to grow chia"
Apparently soaking the seeds is bad if you are not growing them on a chia planter.
Reply
Reply
I actually, literally, recite in my head before going in that people (the other customers) are going to be assholes, and I should be ready for it. Somehow expecting it makes it okay. It is good to see how rich people act. What weirds me out is that they don't step on each other's toes. They have some sort of rich bitch detection system that allows them to avoid one another while heaping inconvenience on the "little people." I guess that's part of being a rich asshole.
Reply
It will be interesting to see how Whole Foods does in Tucson, now that it's taken over Wild Oats. When I worked at Wild Oats, I would encounter people who--years later--still complained that Wild Oats bought out Reay's Ranch Market. They were Reay's loyalists.
Isn't that weird about rich ass-holes? It's like they can smell your socioeconomic status. They know which people to step on. And is it just me, or do the people with the most money also complain the most about how much they're spending?
Reply
Reply
But I suppose the poor often imitate the rich. Immediately the stereotypical obsession with "bling" comes to mind. The poor will imitate the rich if it gives them some sort of sense of superiority in their world of second-class citizenship.
Reply
Leave a comment