My newest guilty pleasure is wrong on oh-so many levels.  It’s a website dedicated to the freaks of nature who shop at Wal-Mart.  Yes, Wal-Mart.   Come to think of it, there’s a Wal-Mart within walking distance of Casa Mackie.  And it’s a veritable Rogues Gallery of winners.

Wal-Mart is America’s great equalizer.  Everyone shops there because, well, Wal-Mart has EVERYTHING.  Couscous in Aisle 4.  Snail-B-Gone in the Garden Section.  And the latest piece of newfangled technology (destined to become obsolete by tomorrow) in Electronics.  And while I much prefer Target, I have been known to traipse in to a Wal-Mart in my day.  There’s a $50 minimum to get out of the store.  I have stopped by several times to pick up ONE specific thing … like Q-Tips.  I left with Q-Tips, two picnic tables, a Best of Kajagoogoo CD, and a non-stick skillet.  For some reason, I can’t escape that store without a non-stick skillet in my hand.  Why is that? I now have like 22 of ‘em.

Whether you’re young or old, short or tall, fat or fatter, chances are you buy most of your sundry items at Wal-Mart.  But not only do you now have a chance to stimulate the economy (and the Walton’s coffers), you can be featured on a website to boot!  It’s just a win-win all the way around.  I will be the FIRST to admit I’ve gone in to Wal-Mart looking like absolute hell.  Sweatpants, sandals w/ socks, mustard-stained T-shirt.  I’m usually on a mission because I’ve run out of something.  This week it was a specific kind of mint dental tape.  (Yes, like floss, but more pretentious.)  I scurried in drenched in sweat from working out.  Mercifully, I saw no one I recognized.  And other than the 35 security cameras, I doubt anyone of note saw me.  I left with dental tape, green tea, Chapstick, a People Magazine and a small non-stick skillet.  (Shut up!  There was a sale!)

If you want to have a new website that makes you laugh about the absurdity that is Wal-Mart, visit www.peopleofwalmart.com.  Their stores are rife with nut jobs, whackadoodles, exhibitionists and rough trade.  I go there every day, sometimes TWICE a day, uh, the website … NOT the store.  Enjoy!