Monday, October 11, 2004

This is an H4 tag



Another weekend has passed. The most interesting thing I did was go to Target...again.

I've thought about it, and there are many reasons why I visit Target so often:

1. I am a toy collector. Gotta keep checkin' those aisles. There's nothing like the thrill of seeing a brand-new Boba Fett action figure

2. Tranquility. Compared to any other store on the planet, Target is the cleanest, most quiet, and least crowded. It's the Anti-Walmart.

3. Location. I am but minutes away.

4. Less weirdos. In any given store, there is usually at least 1 weird/scary/escaped person. These often unwashed people like to give you strange looks, cough or clear their throat in an unsettling fashion, or talk to you for no reason. In the many years in which I have gone to Target, I can think of only one "weird guy", and in retrospect, he wasn't that bad. He never spoke, he just looked at the Hot Wheels, and played the video games. He had a lion's mane type of haircut, frizzy and blond, and an ever-present Oakland Raiders jacket. He often smelled of vomit and ass. Anyway, I'm straying from my point.

5. Non-Redneck clothing options. Being male, fashion is low on my priority list. That being said, I can often find things I'd wear in the Target clothing section that don't make me look like I live in a rusted trailer home with "Jeff Gordon 4-ever" spray-painted on it.
This is the biggest difference between Target and Walmart.
If you want a sleeve-less cowboy shirt with Taz in a race car on it, you go to Walmart. If you prefer sleeves, and like your shirts to be 'tasteful', you go to Target.

So there, much like a peanut, that's my theory in a nutshell.

BONUS: This blog's spell check tells me that I should replace "weirdos" with "hairdos". Thank you spell check.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

would it be weirdoes?
like potatoes and tornadoes?
or buffaloes?

-#1 sis

Anonymous said...

that frizzy-haired gentleman was incredibly polite, but also homeless. at one point, his mother worked with me. they both moved to california some time ago.