Sunday, May 2, 2010

May 2, 2010

The other day I wrote an e-mail to Marshalls. This is a clothing store that prides itself selling designer stuff far below retail or rather far below anybody else.

They sell men's and women's items as well as many other household things.

What prompted me to write were two things.

One, I had nothing else to do.

Two, they are constantly advertising how nice their stores are and how much good quality merchandise they have that are fashionable and very low priced.

We had the chance to see a couple of their stores within the sphere of our shopping territory.

I have to tell you, they are disasters. The stores look like thrift shops. Salvation Army Thrift Shop looks better than Marshalls'.

The quality of their merchandise is very low. Designer names are in the eyes of the beholder. Just because they put a label on a piece of clothing with the name Joe it does not make it a designer item.

The stores are messy, disorganized and basically unpleasant.

This prompted me to write my e-mail.

I received a response from their Costumer Service rep that they appreciated my comments and it was forwarded to the right party for action.

Now either they will reorganize their stores or they will send someone to beat me up.

Or, they just ignore it like everybody else ignores everything.

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I just love when people stick their noses to where they have absolutely no business.

This Arizona thing is growing by leaps and bounds.

The way I see it this immigration law is not an anti Latino law. But let's be realistic, Mexico is the home of Latinos. People who sneak across the Arizona border are Latinos. These illegals are Latinos. Simple as that.

It does not mean that all Latinos are bad and illegals. It just means that the ones coming across the border down there are happen to be Latinos.

This prompted every politician to get on the bandwagon and declare the Arizona law discriminatory and that Arizona is a racist state.

The people in New York should mind their own business. I'll bet most of the demonstrators who took part yesterday have no idea where Arizona is.

They just demonstrated because it was a nice day and there was something to demonstrate about.

New York is about twenty five hundred miles away from Arizona. New York is a border state but it borders Canada and it does not have the same illegal problems as Arizona has.

How can the people here understand what is happening down there. But that will not stop anybody to demonstrate. They will voice their objections regardless if they know the facts and what is really happening down there.

People in New York will tell Arizonians how they should live their lives.

I am not saying that the Arizona law is right or wrong. I am not a lawyer nor a politician. All I am saying is that people should mind their own business and put their own houses in order before telling others how to live their lives.

Americans have the tendency to tell everybody in this world how to live. We are so convinced that our way of life is superior to everybody else that we can not comprehend a lifestyle different than ours.

If it is different than it must be bad. That is the motto.

And this applies back home, too. New Yorkers and North Easters can not understand that life might be different in other parts of the country.

That is the beauty of this country. It is so huge that lives and customs differ in other states and we just have to accept it.

Europe comprises fifty different countries (just like our fifty states). Each and every country has its own history, language and customs. Most of these countries are much older than the US, most of them were around when good old Christopher Columbus discovered America.

Yet, nobody is complaining about their lifestyles and nobody is trying to change their habits.

It would be very comfortable if the whole world would speak only English and the entire world would be called The United World of America.

Then what would we demonstrate about?




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