WTF at Kmart

[RecoveringKinkoid]

So I go into Kmart to buy a freaking bicycle pump on my lunch hour.

Cashier asks me my birthday. Now, ya'll know of my great love for the various dicking around that goes on at cash registers, so I was like, "Why?"

And she says "because certain items flag as they need a birthday, like cigarettes and cold medicine..."

And apparently freaking bicycle pumps.

So at that point, I just give her the date, but not the year. Just to see what would happen.

And it went through just fine. :wtf:

[Nashida]

Uh...see, I can understand cigarettes and cold medicine, Nyquil, Sudafed, that sort of stuff...

But BIKE PUMPS.

[Becks]

That is insane.

I have no words.

[Rapscallion]

I can understand it. So many young lives have been shattered by the insidious huffing of fresh air, but at pressure! The instant high gained from this apparently innoccuous past-time is extremely addictive. Warn your sons! Lock up your daughters!

In other news, get off my lawn!

Rapscallion

[Bright_Star]

I can see it now-"The Surgeon General has warned that huffing air is hazardous to your health"...lol.

[tropicsgoddess]

I remember when I was in high school I knew people that would sniff glue, whiteout, etc, but getting high off pumps?!! :wtf:

[RecoveringKinkoid]

The topper for me was that the chick didn't even ask me the YEAR! So, what? "Okay, ma'am, you're a Leo, so I guess I can sell you this here pump. If you'd been, say, a Taurus, well then I wouldn't have been able to sell it to you."
:confused:

Like the fact that it was flagged at all wasn't weird enough.

[Binky]

I'm assuming some stupid person decided it would be funny/cool to stick the bike pump in some orifices that isn't really meant to have things like air pumps stuck in it. Pumped a few times, blown something up/damaged some vital organ or whatever and sued the company for not telling him/her that he/she shouldn't have done that. Won, and now the company is just covering their ass.

Only takes one idiot to make it bad for the rest of us :roll::roll::roll::roll:

Edit:

As for the not taking the year thing. She probably figured since you were smart enough to actually know your date and month that you were smart enough to have said pump

[BookstoreEscapee]

Hmm...Nashida's avatar strikes me as especially apropos for this particular story...

[Mr. Rager!]

A bike pump can be an aid in making hash oil, which has an extremely high THC content. Great for making brownies and, and... I'll shut up now.

But, that may be one of the reasons that they needed a birthdate for the bike pump, but I'm unsure.

[Becks]

In other news, get off my lawn!

But it's so lucious. *pouts*

[Shangri-laschild]

I remember that at the gas station we had to stop stocking tire guages and I kept getting told that it was becase "the druggies keep stealing them" though I'm not sure why.....

[draftermatt]

That is odd... You still have a Kmart?

Seriously though, a bike pump? A goddamn bike pump? What next, when I want to buy some underwear I'll need to show my ID because lunatic got his balls caught in the button, and now they have to keep track of who is buying fruit of the looms to make sure they can check the content of their sack at their next trip?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Yes, we still have not one but at least three Kmarts in town. Such as they are.

They are not so much stores as they are large, dirty rooms that apparently have badly-maintained garage sales going on inside them.

But hey, they aren't Walmart, so there you go. And the one I was in yesterday is an easy drive from my work.

[Mr. Rager!]

I remember that at the gas station we had to stop stocking tire guages and I kept getting told that it was becase "the druggies keep stealing them" though I'm not sure why.....

Tire guages can be used as marijuana pipes or crack pipes. I mean, I can see how it would work really well, actually.

[daleduke17]

Yes, we still have not one but at least three Kmarts in town. Such as they are.

They are not so much stores as they are large, dirty rooms that apparently have badly-maintained garage sales going on inside them.

But hey, they aren't Walmart, so there you go. And the one I was in yesterday is an easy drive from my work.

I like that description of K-Mart. Mind if I use it sometime?

On a different note, my wife and I won't go into the K-Mart here in town since it is so depressing to walk through. Yeah, they're nicely stocked and (relatively) clean, but damn it is a buzzkill to walk in there.

I don't think K-Mart was killed by Wal-Mart, K-Mart pretty much killed itself and is limping along right now because of Sears.

[Mr. Rager!]

I don't think K-Mart was killed by Wal-Mart, K-Mart pretty much killed itself and is limping along right now because of Sears.

Poor Sears. :(

[Alexandra]

Hm. I remember having those cylindrical bike pumps with the cover over it...my sister and I used to shoot those covers at each other!

Maybe that's it...?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Got new for you about Sears, at least the one here. It's worse than the Kmarts. When it opened, we went in there just to see it. It was super nice, nice as Target. We haven't been back just because it's not a convenient location from us. Went in there a couple weeks ago to look at appliances for a kitchen remodel, and damn that place has gotten squalid. Absolutely tragic. Dirty, unkept, poorly maintained. Oh, how the mighty have fallen and all that.

Their genius idea to sell dishwashers was to put a couple collections of fuzzy, badly exposed photos of before and after dishes. Yes, folks, they tried to sell me a dishwasher by leaving some pictures of grody, crusty dishes where I'd stumble across them. My sister, who has a real appreciation for what she calls Human Spectacle, about wet her pants laughing when she saw those pics.

Needless to say, I ended up going to Lowes. I'm not spending that kind of money to have people this apathetic half-ass around doing my delivery and installs.

[powerboy]

We still have a Kmart in my town. And that place is just bad. Everything is a mess. I only shop there once in a blue moon

[Mr. Rager!]

One thing about our KMart, you can always get front row parking.

Hmm... actually, you can typically get front row parking at our Sears too.

[draftermatt]

Hm, our local Sears is still a nice place. Not so much for clothes, but appliances, electronics, & tools.

There are a few towns near me that have a K-mart, nearest one is 19 miles. Guess I'll go to the Wal-mart which is 2 minutes away... Still I always preferred K-mart as it was much easier to navigate through.

[Shangri-laschild]

Tire guages can be used as marijuana pipes or crack pipes. I mean, I can see how it would work really well, actually.

Ah! Thank you. I had been wondering about that for a while now.

[Jester]

We have a Sears and a K-Mart here in Key West, and both of them seem nice enough, though the Sears is much nicer than the K-Mart. Neither of them is "squalid" or anything like that, though. But then, things that happen in the rest of the country don't always make it here for a while......who knows? I haven't been to another Sears or K-Mart in a while, so I can't say that my recent experiences are at all representative of these stores as a whole.

[BusBus]

Sorta back to the OT....

It sounds like anything that could possibly, remotely be used in the production and/or consumption of drugs are (or will eventually) require age-restrictions...

Soon we will be IDed when purchasing bakeware, cutlery, and pocket sized mirrors :rolleyes:

[wolfie]

The topper for me was that the chick didn't even ask me the YEAR! So, what? "Okay, ma'am, you're a Leo, so I guess I can sell you this here pump. If you'd been, say, a Taurus, well then I wouldn't have been able to sell it to you."


Because everyone knows that a Taurus needs the higher-volume, lower-pressure pump that they sell in Automotive.

:p

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Yes, we still have not one but at least three Kmarts in town. Such as they are.

They are not so much stores as they are large, dirty rooms that apparently have badly-maintained garage sales going on inside them.

But hey, they aren't Walmart, so there you go. And the one I was in yesterday is an easy drive from my work.

Large, dirty rooms with badly-maintained garage sales and parking lots consisting of approximately 5,384 individual potholes held together by narrow strips of crumbling asphalt.

Wally World has them beat in the cleanliness department; that's for damn sure and not a good thing. Even the local Goodwill seems to be maintained better than the last K-Mart I set foot it.

[Boochan]

I'm pleased that Kmart US pulled their interests out of our Kmart here many, many years ago, though they have their own troubles here.. though not competing with Walmart, but competing with Target (owned by the same people anyway) and another discount store we have here called Big W. They all recently got renovated here though, and the store in my mall is always very clean, though a bit squashy I guess.

[Slytovhand]

The topper for me was that the chick didn't even ask me the YEAR! So, what? "Okay, ma'am, you're a Leo, so I guess I can sell you this here pump. If you'd been, say, a Taurus, well then I wouldn't have been able to sell it to you."
:confused:

Like the fact that it was flagged at all wasn't weird enough.

Ah - no....

As someone trained in the esoteric art and science of astrology, I think I can answer this one for you.

Firstly - there are signs that are more susceptible to addiction - such as Sagitarrius and Pisces. And the Sag, being the party animal they are, would use suck a devise to 'Pump it up' (as the young'uns would say).

Also - it's a bike pump - only safe in the hands of an Air sign - or a Fire sign (as they're compatible with Air signs.

Now - if it was a plant - they probably wouldn't have sold it to you at all - you'd need to be an Earth sign (they have the green thumbs).

And, of course - only Water signs are allowed to buy drinks there.....



Slyt

[Becks]

I haven't been to a Sears in a long time. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

K-Mart creeps me out. I can't remember the last time I was in a good one.

Wal-Mart is getting skankier by the week.

I despise Target.

At least Kohl's has good sales every once in a while.

[Andara Bledin]

I haven't been in a KMart for ages. But the last one I was in was pretty squalid.

I haven't been in a Sears for years, since about the time they got in big trouble over their automotive department and brakes. That was like 10 to 15 years ago.

I won't do WalMart for a variety of reasons.

I've been to Kohl's once, and was really, really unimpressed with their lack of selection and slightly high prices compared to the local Target, which is huge. I like the local Target.

My last appliance purchase was from Home Depot, which had a great price and service.

Unless you count the fridge, which came from Rent-A-Center, 'cause we were desperate to have a fridge that day.

^-.-^