Tuesday, October 20 2009: Lay-A-Way
This is the annual rant at the inability of Christians and their moneychanging brothers to wait until the Christmas season to start peddling Christmas shit. October 8th I saw a commercial (for K-Mart this time (Wal-Mart is the usual offender)) which mentioned getting your Christmas shopping done early because "K-Mart has Lay-A-Way".
For a long time, I thought "Lay-A-Way" was just a counter where disused merchandise and lazy workers congregated to watch people go in and out of the bathrooms (I was young, I never questioned why they would need to watch me go in and out of the bathroom). I'm not sure when I realized that Lay-A-Way is white trash for "have to buy gifts on the installment plan - even from K-Mart". Now, instead of finding it weird, I find Lay-A-Way sad. Not sad like pathetic but sad like I want to cry a little bit.
Maybe it's my inner communist speaking, but I think everyone should be able to buy cheap Chinese crap from K-Mart without having to make 4 easy payments, but then I think everyone should be be able to find the means to live and provide for their family on minimum wage, too.
For a long time, I thought "Lay-A-Way" was just a counter where disused merchandise and lazy workers congregated to watch people go in and out of the bathrooms (I was young, I never questioned why they would need to watch me go in and out of the bathroom). I'm not sure when I realized that Lay-A-Way is white trash for "have to buy gifts on the installment plan - even from K-Mart". Now, instead of finding it weird, I find Lay-A-Way sad. Not sad like pathetic but sad like I want to cry a little bit.
Maybe it's my inner communist speaking, but I think everyone should be able to buy cheap Chinese crap from K-Mart without having to make 4 easy payments, but then I think everyone should be be able to find the means to live and provide for their family on minimum wage, too.
