Wal Mart

Drive up, its noon, there are people, adults and children alike, flying into, out of, and around every bend with cars just barely missing them, which would be certain death. Most of the time no one even notices, not the car, the person almost being run over or the people waiting to be picked up in front of the store.

When looking for a spot the best place to start is all the way in the back near the mobile homes and the RVs because it is almost certain that the cars in the front have been there since last Tuesday, cause if someone is parked up front they never leave and if they do leave they walk.

Guys peeing in the parking lot, old people lost behind parked cars honking at no one, carts flying out of every opening, miles and miles of a lot all filled with beat up cars, garbage, and mobile homes. They even line the parking lot with truck storage containers just cluttering everything that much more.

Inside after being greeted by a 80 year old woman who is given no benefits and obviously has no retirement saved up, I walk through the maze of aisles all of which seem to go just high enough to make you feel like you are trapped. I go by the girl and her mom carrying matching "fake" Louis Vuitton bags and wearing way to much make up, then the crippled, the elderly, the people who push and shove there way for no reason, then there is the woman with small hot pink pants, which she should not be wearing, who is actually bouncing off things she is in such a rush with no regard for the old man with a cane she almost took out. She flies through the aisle all the way to the end to get a fricken ball for her kid, yeah that was so life and death to get at that specific time. Finally looking through what has to be hundreds of aisles if not thousands and not seeing anything that is made in America I find what I came for the $.65 gallon jugs of water.

I walk up to the registers of which there are at least 20 and skip the busiest line, well they are all busy, yet no one is working, they are just waiting on price checks or a manager or just talking, but the one line is definitely the busiest and that is of course because...Its the cigarette and tobacco line. So skip that one, looks like my best bet is the 20 and under line. As I wait for the woman in line to get a price check on her hot pink, plastic and suede sneakers I wonder, "How does Wal Mart do it?" Even as I talk about my somewhat crappy experience I realize that I am in line BUYING something.

More Pics of the Tri-Athletes

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The Tri-Athletes

On sunday Bill, Ellie, Nora Gorman, Matt and Carmel conquered the Chicago
triathlon in amazing fashion. More pics to come for now take a look at my new flickr account

On the way to Great America

Six Flags Great America

Six Flags Great America II

Coast to Coast

Finally, a Digital Camera

I got a new camera yesterday, the PowerShot SD630. Stevie just bought one of these cameras and when I saw it I some what freaked out and had to get one. The thing is amazing, its tiny and takes great pictures. I have officially turned over to the way of the digital camera. I have been fighting it for years now but could not keep waiting for my pictures to developed and then having to scan each one in individually. I am not fully cutting myself of from film, I will just not be as dependent on it. I will still always love my little fish eye camera (The one that takes those crazy pictures in the posts previous), but will not need it for all occasions. So soon enough I will be putting up pictures with my new camera.

Lincoln Park Softball Playoff Game

Half the team sleeping on my floor before the game

"Hot Corner" Keller

Carm Rose getting a taste of softball

Matty Tobin our short stop

A hilariouly put together team

Al "Little Papi" Nondoa, striking a pose

Wicker Park Fest

Davis and Martin


I love the "L"

Wicker Park

Biggest Bowl of Gauc

A Break

Some Randoms

A nice pair of shoe

The Fest