Lest you think other small stores are any better, consider my experience today. Every time I go to our town's only little grocery store, I'm pleasant and friendly toward its proprietor...who responds by constantly trying to argue with me. Normally, I nod and smile, until today, when my mother accompanied me into the store.
We were talking about how hard it had been for my mom to endure the last blizzard/power outage we had. She was defending the fact that the local power company had gone home for 8 hours and left entire towns without heat or power. While I realize it was a blizzard, the fact remains that the power company workers are paid to work in such conditions, AND they have heated trucks. This nasty woman started mocking my mother and me in front of another customer, saying we were "complaining" and that it was more important for healthy men to go home, than for people like my sickly, elderly mother to be cared for.
Still trying to be nice, I said that we could have just gone out to the car to get warm, except we can't open the garage door with no power (you can't run a car in a closed garage). She said, "Get a generator." I reminded her that I can't start a motor with a pull-cord, as she knows because she's aware that I have an electric lawnmower for just that reason. She just shrugged and started bitching about us to the other woman in the store again.
When we went outside, my mother started to cry at this woman's utter heartlessness, and we've vowed never to go back there again.
In case you haven't guessed, this bitch is a right-winger.
So is Georgene ("Waah, don't raise the minimum wage!") Allen, who routinely sells anti-Obama T-shirts and greeting cards, according to my friends living in that area.
It might be just as well that this happened...the other day, I went to get some eggs there, and found that this nasty woman turned all the cartons around so you couldn't read the expiration dates. The eggs had expired 3 weeks ago. She's always pulling stunts like that, which is why I always read expiration dates before buying any of her overpriced crap.
As a fictional spirit-guide I get to deal with all types of people. I find it oddly amusing that when a DUmmies fabricates a story for fellow DUmmies to enjoy all of the evil rethuglican antagonists actually display DUmmie qualities.
Let's take a look at portions of the fantasy piece that the DUmmie DUmbbell composed.
The DUmmie is always pleasant and friendly toward the owner, but the owner (the antagonist in this work of fiction) constantly responds to the pleasantness and friendliness by trying to argue.
Right. Anyone who has even a passing knowledge of the cesspool that is DU knows that a DUmmie's natural state trends toward UNpleasantness and UNfriendliness. A person with any knowledge of DU also knows that a DUmmie lives for argument. A DUmmie will argue with a rock. Most store owners (not all but most), on the otherhand, tend to bend over backwards to make a customer happy because the customer spending money in the store is what keeps the store owner in business.
So once again, here is a case of a DUmmie is using a type of transference in a fictional story.
The antagonist in the story also supported the workers being able to go home. According to DU it is suppose to be the other way around. The evil rethuglicans want the workers to work all of the time. While the wonderfully thoughtful DUmmies want the workers to be able to stay at home all of the time. I guess that only is in effect when the workers staying home does not affect the DUmmies.
The antagonist mocked the sickly mother. Another case of transference. Anyone interested in seeing how this would happen in real life if this story was true should Google/nadin George W. Bush's mother with the search narrowed to the democraticunderground.com domain.
Finally the store owner turned the cartoons around to hide expiration dates. Once more this is transference. If anyone really wants to see who turns products around in stores they can just Google/nadin 'bookstores' with the search narrowed to the democraticunderground.com domain.
I really do find it interesting that anytime a DUmmie creates a fictional story he/she/it, in order to make the antagonist appear more 'evil', gives the antagonist DUmmie qualities.
