Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

EASY there Rye, nobody's saying that you can't do so if you want to. If that's your preference, go for it. As for me, I've got more time than money, I'll wait in the cashier line. Like I said, I don't work there. Now if they offered a discount for using the self checkout, like they do for gas, I'd be all over it. Not denying it.🦖

I'm the same way. If asked, I tell them that the cashiers that they DO have are getting paid to run the register. I'm not, so I won't. I've found that if you ask, someone will run the self checkout for you. If they ever say that they can'/ won't, I'll tell them they've got two choices: Either they can find someone to check me out, or they can find someone to put the stuff in my cart back on the shelves.

I don't have otto. Completely my fault. BRAIN FART!!

You got me. I guess that my finger got ahead of my mind. The fact that I type with one finger should tell you something about my speed of thought.

Sometimes I think that we need a thread of Alpoesque questions. Certainly if he just asked his questions there it would cause the Saloon to have a few less pages. We could all ask things there. I think that next time I have a question for the Saloon, I might start such a thread.

I've lived in Arizona for 35 years. I've had a few encounters with LEOs, including a number at the Douglas Az. DOT scalehouse. With one or two exceptions they've all been positive. The one or two were Tucson Cops, (From Somewhere Else I think), who were nervous about my guns. They were still polite and professional.

Heck I get in trouble for the things I DO say!

Better, tell your Millennial Grandkid to navigate ANYWHERE on a paper map. A few years ago when I was planning my first Arizona to Ohio road trip, I went down to the Truckstop and picked up an Atlas. When I showed the guys at work, they were astonished. Even the other truck drivers. Same thing when I pulled out a collection of CDs the I keep in the Jeep.

Tires, no matter where they're sold OR made, (China, Korera, etc.), must meet US DOT standards. Walmart can sell name brand tires simply because they can buy 200,000 tire at a time where Bob's tire shop might get a couple hundred at a time. The same way that they can sell Wrangler Jeans for less than Bubba's Cowboy Palace. Walmart is buying 50,000 of each size at a time where Bubba is only buying a dozen at a time.

Dapper Dave, I don't know how far out of Tucson you are, but I frequent the Walmart at Foothills Mall, and it's a pretty decent place. You might give them a try unless it's just further than it's worth for you to travel.

I don't think that it's lesser quality, but many of them have less FEATURES. It's my understanding that, for instance TVs that are Black Friday Specials just don't have the features that a higher priced version from the same maker might have. Do you sometime get junk from Walmart? Sure. But I'd about bet that it's not any higher of a percentage that anywhere else. It's just that Walmart sells so many more of them.

Well your standard run of the mill public schools are run that way, but there is still hope, it just doesn't get any play in the Lame Stream Media, it doesn't fit the narrative. Look at the kids that are helping Yul Lose with his trash cans. Good kids there. When I was a kid, (1970s), adults were bemoaning OUR generation for being useless. The Hippie culture, campus riots, Woodstock, the whole thing. But for the most part we turned it around. There ARE good people these days teaching their young Right from Wrong. Just not in public schools. And I'm not saying that all public school teachers are this way, but like Hollywierd, most are. There are young people who know what needs to be done and are actively doing it. Look at Charlie Kirk's work on campi with Turning Point. He gets thousands of college students coming to see him. he, more than Elon, I think, had a big helping hand in the way the last Election turned out. It's low hanging fruit to just say "Look at all the smartphone zombies out there", but I really don't think that we're Done For yet. Do I think that public schools are crap? Heck yes. Are they shaping the young people of today to ruin tomorrow? They're trying. But as long as there are Good People out there to counteract some of public school's nonsense, we'll be okay. But we can NEVER stop teaching. We have to keep telling our Grandpa stories to our young because WE have teachable moments to pass down to them. Right now, WE are the Old Guys bemoaning THIS generation for being useless. We have to do what we can, not only to tell, but to SHOW them Right from Wrong. To tell them what mistakes our generation made so that they don't repeat them. Let them make their own mistakes, but hopefully, because they've been told what WE did, they can learn from them as most of us did, and so keep things headed in the right direction for the next generation to screw up.

People these days don't know anything that isn't on their social media. The parents of today were the dumbass kids of yesterday, remember them? Teachers have been trying to undermine our civilization since WE were kids. It's a miracle we still HAVE a civilization with what they've been "teaching" kids in public school. And their life "experiences" are just what they get from their social media. (See what I did there.)

Agreed. Like I said in my earlier post, the stores around here are pretty good.

I watched a Youtube video a couple weeks ago that showed that a lot of them still exist.

Forty, it's too bad that you had this problem. Here in Tucson, I've generally had just the opposite. The stores are for the most part clean, the employees usually happy to help. On many occasions, when I ask where something is, the employee will not only tell me, but lead me to the item I'm looking for. I'm sure that you also refuse to use the self checkout. I'm the same way. I don't work for Walmart, (or Fry's, or McDonalds, or anyplace else), and even at Walmarts that don't even HAVE an "Assisted Checkout", with the exception of one old biddy, I've always found that they've always been more that willing to run it for me, if they don't have one already open. I'm at a Walmart several time a month, and I order stuff online from them too. Usually big stuff that I'm just too lazy to carry, but often stuff that I want/ need but I'm not going out that day, or that I can't get locally. They don't carry the Wrangler Jeans I wear in my size locally, but I can get them online for much less than anywhere else. And as long as you order more than $30 worth of products, delivery is free. AND if you order something online and need to return it, you can return it to a store that doesn't even carry it. Maybe I'm lucky, maybe it's the .45 on my hip, (I often get complimented on my carrying a gun, many times FROM Walmart employees), but Walmart has usually been good to me.

The Military has manuals for EVERYTHING. Usually they are behind by about 2 wars. When I enlisted in The Marines in 1977, we were thoroughly trained for Jungle Warfare, like 'Nam. So of course the next war was a Desert War.

Go wrong, go wrong, go wrong...

Easy enough. Once you've replied to a thread, you can edit your reply. There are 3 dots in the upper right corner. Click on them and you'll see the option to edit.

There's your answer.

My wife is a CNA and wears scrubs. They have pockets.

I think that I'd do both. I'd mount the dummy for day to day, but have a real one just because I could.

MOST days when I was driving a truck, the best part of the job was that the "chair" drove away from where my "boss" could try to tell me how to do my job.