June 17, 2008


Last night

I went to Wal-Mart and bought a pair of black shorts emblazoned with CUBA CITY CUBANS in yellow.

posted by Sheila Ryan in clothes, international, politics 

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4 Responses to “Last night”

  1. Sheila Ryan on June 17th, 2008 at 10:36 am

    You probably cannot buy a pair of these at your own nearest Wal-Mart, but you could try looking here.

    (Oh, and the Galena [Illinois] High School mascot is a pirate. I have a Galena Pirates sweatshirt that I bought at Dick’s before it was the Piggly-Wiggly.)

  2. Brandon Hobson on June 17th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    Sheila, I envy you that you can go into Wal Mart. I can’t even walk into the place without getting so depressed I want to kill myself. I’m not sure if it’s the lighting or the people who work there or the overcrowded lines, though I suspect it might be all three. Seriously. Am I alone in this?

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  4. Sheila Ryan on June 17th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    Brandon, I think the only reason I can do it is because the Wal-Mart in Galena is one of those hemi-semi-demi ‘green’ [choke -- splutter] versions with the skylights. Of course, that doesn’t help come nighttime.

    Oddly enough (or perhaps not), their produce is superior to that at ‘Dick’s Piggly-Wiggly’. (I can’t wait till Saturday — first Farmers’ Market of the year in my locale.)

    And do not envy me. The capacity to shop at Wal-Mart (albeit in the dead of night) is symptomatic of a kind of creeping numbness. However, I am not yet so far gone as to be able to navigate the suburbs of Chicago without entering a dissociative state.

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