stupid people

You know what... I honestly hate Wild Oats. The Wild Oats where I live used to be this cool little locally owned hippie store called "Oasis", but then the owners got sick of running the business or something and sold it to Wild Oats. I don't know why, but the place ticks me off.

 

When I got to the store I'm usually too broke to buy more than one thing anyway, so I hardly ever get a bag. It's pretty pointless.

 

The Wild Oats by my house is pretty kewl...I like Daily Grind though...it's in this hippie area of the city...it rocks. I need to shop there more.

 

Yeah it's like when you go to the store to buy a couple gallons of milk and they ask you if you need a bag for them, when the freaking gallons themselves already have handles on them. It's so stupid. They act as if it's such an inconvenience to hold your milk without a bag, and you'll freeze your fingers off. Grrrrr!

 

fellow freaks....

i usually get the people that insist on giving you a bag even when you say no or the ones that are cool when you say that i don't need a bag. honestly, i can't remember the last time someone asked if i needed a bag....sad....

you wrote: anyway point being, I Try.....
good for you!!!! i'm the same way. i'm not a hardcore this or that, but i try to do my part to the best of my ability. i try not to shove it in other's faces, but lead by example.........

extra big hugs to all you denver/ colorado freaks....go to valley view hot springs for me!!!

 

Hey what's up Drumminmama! I'm of no relation to Mr. Tom Plant. It's the name I chose to fulfill my wish of being Mrs. Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. Silly, I know... The enviroscene here in the Springs could use some help. We're starting to get the brown cloud that Denver has on those hot sunny days in the Spring and Summer. Not very pretty, I'm afraid, and the mountains become less and less visible every year. Garden of the Gods, however is just as beautiful as always!

 

Whenever I was working (sigh...), whenever I asked people if they "need a bag," they looked at me like I was an idiot. Like,"of course I need a bag! Are you crazy???" People hardly ever turned them down...it think in the 4 months I worked at Dillard's, only 2 people didn't want a bag. One was buying luggage...

 

I just moved from Boulder to Atlanta, so the three of you Coloradans are making me quite homesick.... **wipes tears, looks out at the kudzu patch, wishing it were mountains**

Boulder retailers always asked if you needed a bag, so much so, that it used to piss me off sometimes, that I would say "yes!" just to make them mad -- I don't like a lot of questions from cashiers.... When I didn't need a bag, I would tell them so.

But here in the south, good God, they must bathe in plastic shopping bags down here. Yes, and WalMart is the worst! They put one item in one bag, and I've got like 50 items I'm buying -- what's up with that. So I usually follow that little spinning bag holder and pull out items and combine them into other bags. It really irritates the cashier. But you can actually bring your bags back into WalMart and recycle them in the big bins they have by the doors...look for them when you shop there and recycle!

Hey, Colorado girls....where do you live? What cities? The one store I long for out here is the Vitamin Cottage in Boulder.....I weep for you! That store is the best, because it isn't "cool" or "hip" like Whole Foods/Wild Oats. I always felt comfortable in there, and would shop in my sweats with my two kids in tow. You don't have to be Boulder chic to shop there!

 

sweatininthesouth- I'm from Colorado Springs. What part of CO. were you from? When was the last time you've been back? We're in some kind of a crazy drought lately, for the past couple of years, if you don't already know. We have such harsh water restrictions too. Soon we'll only be allowed to bathe once a week! LOL

 

Hey there MrsPlant, we just moved out here Oct. '03, from Boulder. I lived most my life in Colorado (Evergreen, Denver, Boulder, Louisville) and it's where I'll always be most comfortable.

That last year we lived out there, I tried desperately to have a vegetable garden, as my kids love to garden with me. I had to sneak out after dark, around midnight to water my garden, cuz neighbors were turning in each other for watering on off days. I gave up after a while and watched my tomatoes shrivel. The drought situation has really worsened over the years. Climatologists are saying that the West is actually "normalizing" and getting back to the way it used to be -- meaning, it used to be really dry and it is going back to that!!

Stay cool out there and blow a kiss to the Rocky Mountain for me! I miss those awesome sunsets over the Continental Divide!

 

i just wrote this insanely long post replying to a bunch of stuff that's been said since the last time i posted, and i lost it

so real quick
sweatininthesouth *blowing a kiss to the rockies for ya*
also just wanted to say i've never been to the Vitamin Cottage in Boulder, but i frequent the one in Lakewood. I love that place. Way less uppity(sp?) than Wild Oats and their bulk items are so freakin' cheap

happyhaha
big spiel about how i know what ya mean about how insane it is that people waste so much.
I work at a construction company as a receptionist. If it's not enough already that we level all the land in the area for more unneeded development, the people in my office absolutely will not recycle.
I went and put boxes next to all the garbage cans, and told them if they would just put their paper in the the boxes i would recycle it. So it's just a simple request to put paper in a box next to the garbage can instead of the garbage can. Do you think they can handle that. NO!
I have to run around everyday, and pull paper out of the garbage 'cause these idiots don't have a fucking care in the world!!!!!!
errrr i don't get it!!!!
Peace ya'll

 

Hey, that's horrible about your tomatoes! Sorry! My mom was trying to grow some veggies too, and just couldn't keep up on watering since it's so restricted. Nothing grows, and it sucks having such dry skin too! I bet you could have a very nice garden in GA. though, huh? I will blow a kiss to the Rockies for you, don't worry, it's my pleasure!

 

Yup, it's really sweaty today. Livin' in an armpit....kinda sticky and smelly right now. It's raining but it's a really warm tropical rain....so different here in the south. We moved here to be closer to my husbands family....wanted to raise our kids around Grandma, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, etc. It's a totally different lifestyle for us, but we're getting used to it. I woke up in a cold sweat the other night though, realizing how far I really am from Colo. and the west coast. My few remaining relatives are in Calif. and Colo. so it's a quite a way for me to go on a "visit."

I did find a Whole Foods here the other day, and was able to buy bulk items. But I was so confused when I went to buy bulk Polenta, as the container read "yellow corn grits." I had to call the produce man over and make him swear grits were the same as polenta.

Hey drummin, cool idea about the football jersey/bag idea. Do you think there's a group of folks who are a little bit jock, a little bit hippie, who would buy them??? Neato!

 

My 7 yr. old son, used to get the worst cracks in his heels from having such dry skin. They would bleed and I would have to wrap his little feet in vaseline and cottong socks at night so they would heal. That's one positive out here, nothing is dry, especially your skin! Maybe I won't wrinkle as quickly in this climate!