There are those people who get angry when you tell them you shop at Walmart. But when you only have $4.00 in you pocket, it seems like the thing to do at the time.<\/p>\n
So it was today, when my 17 yr. old son needed paper for his College Calculus class. We clicked (See:\u201d250,000 Miles on My Subaru\u201d) on into Walmart\u2019s parking lot and headed straight for the school section once inside.<\/p>\n
No ruled filler paper. Not wide. Not college ruled. Nada. Zip. Nicks-O-Rooney. Nowhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow could Walmart be out of school paper?\u201d my son asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cMust be a lot of educated kids these days,\u201d I quipped.<\/p>\n
We left, disappointed, but happy to think of all of the math problems that those missing papers represented. <\/p>\n
Either that, or paper airplanes.<\/p>\n
P.S. The college ruled paper from Office Depot had punched holes that don\u2019t line up with each other. How can you NOT get holes lined up when punching them automatically with a machine? Aargh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are those people who get angry when you tell them you shop at Walmart. But when you only have $4.00 in you pocket, it seems like the thing to do at the time. So it was today, when my … Continue reading