It's cute how you think I care

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I guess I should be proud that I was born during the Baby Bust, then (the period of lower births shortly after the Boom)

I'm also a Baby Buster . . . born in '69.

BTW, the term is also interchangeable with Generation X.

[EricKei]

BTW, the term is also interchangeable with Generation X.

Eeeeekg I like to tell myself that I'm from the gen *before* the X...Gen Y?? Gen13?? I seems to recall that people described as GenX'ers were "kids" to me.

I think I prefer "Atari Generation" -- Between my brother and I, we burned out three 2600's and a Sears Tele-Games (tore brand equivalent to the 2600) around age 3 or 4.

[Andara Bledin]

BTW, the term is also interchangeable with Generation X.

I don't trust Wikipedia at all for generational information. Their different articles on the same things have conflicting information.

And while I have no issues with being referred to as a baby buster gen, I refuse to be part of "generation x." I remember in the 80s that Gen X was supposed to have started in the mid-70s (it was absolutely after I was born, which was '71), and now they've settled it as starting in the 60s? Feh. I'd rather be called the boob tube generation... So, after the boomers, we have the tubers, and then the Xers.

^-.-^

[jackfaire]

I remember in the 80s that Gen X was supposed to have started in the mid-70s (it was absolutely after I was born, which was '71), and now they've settled it as starting in the 60s? Feh. I'd rather be called the boob tube generation... So, after the boomers, we have the tubers, and then the Xers.

^-.-^

When I was a kid I was told the 80's were the start of Gen X then when I got older it was suddenly 1980 was the end of Gen X

[blas]

I don't think it's just Wisconsin and Minnesota, although I can see why we'd think that.....Wisconsin is nothing but farmland and woods and only a few big cities, so naturally there is nothing better to do than piss people off all day......and Minnesota.....well, you get so bored counting every mud puddle as a lake that you'd have to find another hobby

[RecoveringKinkoid]

We used to get that all the time. "How come you charge more than Staples?"

Uh, because we aren't Staples, we are Kinko's?

I dunno, that seemed obvious to me.

[Can I have a cheeseburger]

Sometimes large price gaps are worth taking up with management. Even if I don't make a commission on sales, I like to see wherever I'm working make sales.

I would shop at Wal-Mart a lot more often if there was one within a reasonable distance. The nearest one for me is too far away. I can understand the frustration of those who don't want to travel far and want to pay Wal-Mart prices.

[jackfaire]

Sometimes large price gaps are worth taking up with management.

Only if it is a price gap with your competitor. If it's that far away that the drive isn't worth it then it isn't your stores competitor.

For example on side of my town stores are pricey and people on that side of the town give their high school kids brand new cars.

My side of town I park my 96 Buick and the prices in the same chains and other stores are a lot lower. When looking at prices you have to look at demographic as well as other factors.

[Demolition Man]

and Minnesota.....well, you get so bored counting every mud puddle as a lake that you'd have to find another hobby

So being obsessed over some "old" 40 year old guy now nicknamed "Purple Saviour" isn't one of them?

[Lace Neil Singer]

Blargh... sounds horribly familiar.

SC: Blue Stripy Supermarket's petrol prices are way cheaper than yours!
Me: (fantasy reply) So why don't you go and bother them, instead of coming her and whining at me?

It's so stupid. For one thing, we lowly peons have no control over pricing at all. For another, it seems incredibly pointless to go someplace and whine about prices being cheaper elsewhere. If it's cheaper elsewhere, then BLOODY GO AND SHOP THERE! Jeez.