Shopping in Joplin

I have not been to Joplin, MO since the WuFlu panic. I stopped in Chetopa for lunch and snacks, and didn’t see a mask in sight. Chetopa is so small that every business is locally owned. While having lunch, I read in the Joplin paper that the city removed the mask requirement. While shopping, I noticed the CorporateMarts all required masks and the local ones did not.

I stopped at WallyWorld in Coffeyville to get a phone card I needed to get today. I had not been there since I got hired at the Indy Walmart. The difference was like night and day. The ‘ville had nice wide aisles and cold AC. Indy had aisles so narrow that you block the aisle every time you try to stock something on the shelf. The AC barely works to the point that the back room is cooler than the store in the early evening. Yes the customers have noticed, but they haven’t complained to management yet. They are grateful the toilets are all finally working.

No heat wave here

The AC unit on my rental house went out today. Fortunately, this has been a mild summer. Highs barely hit 90 this week. The AC people will be here tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully they can fix it fairly cheaply. Temperatures should go back up to 95 this weekend.

This is the first year since I moved to Coffeyville in 2006 that we have not had a 100 degree day.

Real Football….

…doesn’t require pads, helmets,huddles or timeouts. I am referring to Australian Rules Football, which is winding down its regular season. This year, thanks to the WuFlu and the shortage of sports on TV, most AFL games are on ESPN or Fox Sports. The games are broadcast live, which means they appear on US TV late at night or early in the morning. If you can’t stay up late or get up early, that is why DVRs were invented.

Pissing on customers….

….Is about all our local newspaper has done for the last decade. From not understanding the difference between a primary election, misleading the public on polling places, to getting local news in the paper sometime next week, there is nothing the Urinal cannot screw up. Complaining does no good because the office is closed, no one answers the phone, and now comments are not allowed on the facebook page. Fourtunately, the weekly paper is more accurate and timely than the twice a week Urinal.

Pissing on the public…

….eventually means pissing off the public. Does anyone want my vote? Donald Trump should be the easiest incumbent to beat in the last century. In the despicable candidate sweepstakes, Democrats reply “Hold my beer” and proceed to nominate a senile fool, and a witch who slept her way to her current level of incompetence. Just once, I would like to vote for some one, rather than against both of them.