We had to go to Walmart this morning to pick up our prescriptions. As soon as I entered the store, I heard what sounded like people screaming. I was wrong: it was only one woman screaming. It’s a huge store, and her voice filled it. And so many f-bombs, I couldn’t make out what this woman was trying to say.
Then I saw her–screaming into the face of some guy who was at least six-foot-eight. Employees came flocking to the scene. Some went frantically looking for a large employee to stand between the couple and prevent mayhem. They found a guy–who did not look happy with his new assignment.
A woman in the line behind me said, “This place needs an exorcism.”
I said, “What, are we in YouTube? This stuff happens on YouTube–not in real life.”
A checkout clerk said, “It happens all the time in New York. I’m from New York, I know. But not in New Jersey.”
Many years of my life went by before I saw anything like this scene enacted in any public place. Something changed in our culture. Should’ve paid more attention when people started allowing their little kids to run around in a restaurant dining room, yelling and shrieking. That should have been a tell.
Happily, the police arrived before any violence could ensue. Well, I didn’t want to spend any more time there–so if anything else happened, I missed it.
Great Scott, what next?! Seems a great many people have gone stark raving mad. I see now why a friend
who works in a Walmart optical dept. in Alabama hates her job.
I’m afraid that we are seeing more and more of this sort of thing. The ridiculous “mandates” aren’t helping, and there’s a lot of tension in the air. I don’t like saying this, but I expect that we’ll be seeing more of this.
I’m afraid you are right. Things are not likely to cool off with the activity going on in Washington DC
If that woman was in California she could have taken up to $900 of stuff and walked out knowing she would not be prosecuted for theft because that’s the law.