Me going to the store for cigarettes. Also me, playing the Night Call song while doing so.
This is one of the best articulations of how my mind works. I complained about someone jaywalking today because I thought the light was about to change in my favor. It didn’t. I admitted to my partner that the jaywalker was right to jaywalk and I was wrong. But I had big “fuck-you” energy when I thought she’d be in my way.
I like to joke about how only the weirdos are at Wal-Mart after midnight (while there at 2 am buying “emergency” beer or something like that, of course)
Walmart works after midnight? If shops here were open this late I’d probably do all my shopping at 2am
Most of the 24 hour Walmarts and similar stores in my area stopped doing that during COVID, and then never did again. Most close at 10 or 11. I miss going into Meijer at 3am and getting… Whatever I wanted 🤷♂️
You’d think they’d want less people in the store at the same time so why reduce the hours for Covid?
At the time it was so that they could sanitize everything in compliance with what the CDC was telling them. In 2020 and into 2021 they actually had a pile of people in the store cleaning every surface overnight. Then, like magic, they stopped.
Now it’s because they can employ fewer people. We’re still beholden to places like that because we have to buy groceries. If they could get everyone in the city in and out in an hour they’d happily do it no matter what we thought. But competition being open later forces them to be open longer.
I live in a rural area, and my various vocations often required me to be out and about in the wee hours.
Guaranteed that if another vehicle on the road was PoPo, I’m getting pulled over and screened.
First question, always, “What are you doing out here at this hour?”It’s happened at least a dozen times in the past 20 years. The last 4 times I pulled over before they even bothered to light up. Had all the paperwork ready before they even stopped.
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