Saturday, April 20, 2013

camping out

has anyone else noticed that walmart is the modern day KOA?

when i was kid and we used to travel to the west coast, KOAs were awesome, they had a pool and a vending machine and there would be other kids to play with (since i was essentially an only child).

now when i get to work in the morning, i notice an assortment of RVs and semis parked in the walmart parking lot.  When you think of it, it does make sense, most walmarts are open 24/7, there is a grocery store, lots of lighting and a huge parking lot.  I suppose that walmart doesn't care, they don't seem to run them off.  When i was an assistant at a big box store, the man in charge of maintenance would call and be upset if we had large vehicles like that parked in our lot because they would do damage if parked there too long and too often. I am not sure what he was so upset about, it isn't as if we owned the parking lot and had to do the maintenance. 

one thing i have noticed is the lack of homeless people and their signs.  I am not sure if they were ran off or received enough money to leave this town.  If i were homeless, i would pick somewhere with better weather...a place with weather more hospitable to standing outside.  However, i did see the homeless guy that used to stand at the vi dock by the liquor store, he has moved down the street to a busier intersection.  I didn't get to see his sign today, so i am not sure what his issue was. 

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