Woman Stays At Gwinnett Wal-Mart For Three Days [WSBTV2 via BoingBoing]
]]>I agree, they should give her a $1000 Walmart certificate as a prize for longest shopping spree@dwayne_dibbly:
]]>She was actually looking for a product made in America.
]]>that surely has to set the guiness book of world records.
]]>If the lady is 70 she wasn't bored. She probably went to one side of the store, then the other then came back to the side she was at before and it was all new again! Yay!
]]>Wonder what the staff was thinking at hour 37.
]]>i've spent about 4 hours at walmart.
the lady is 70, probably bored.
she paid for her food from blimpies, paid for her merchandise. i mean, if it wasn't for her going to sleep (makes me wonder where she slept), i don't see what's wrong with it. I mean, what if she came in and out 20 times in 72 hours? No one would care.
Also, everyone is making 70 years old seem like she is a white-haird 4'3" elderly woman who can't see or hear. I mean, come on. I have two grandmothers that are 70 and still date, have full-time jobs, travel, cook, drive, etc.
]]>She had told her husband that "I'll only be a few minutes."
If I was Walmart security, I would check the parking lot for a Mercury Grand Marquis with a dead 75 year old guy in it.
]]>I'm not sure what happened here. Why such a thing would happen. The police, however, did not arrest her, and for those making statements such as, "just because she can buy a pack of gum doesn't mean she is not homeless," the idea here is that the police ESCORTED HER HOME, leading us to believe she is NOT homeless.
This is sad on many different levels.
1) Walmart stays open 24/7 thus inviting the most bizarre behavior/people.
2) Where was her family? Why were they not concerned with her wherabouts?
3) This is a fine example of how rude and passive we are toward our elderly, three days unnoticed... hmmm... put a goth teen in the store for two minutes and they'll be watched like a hawk.
4) If she shopped for 72 hours did she ONCE get asked if she needed help looking for something? Yet another fine display of Wal-marts, "customer courtesy!!!" But then that would have to mean somebody cared enough to even notice her (refer to number 3)
5) Who brought her to Wal-mart? How did she get there? Did any one citizen, employee, police officer, etc care enough to ask her this?
6) Has Guiness been contacted?
7) To all those big time CEO's, if you care enough to take a poor man's dollar wont you at least care enough to acknowledge them while they're spending it in YOUR STORE!!!!
Merry Christmas to all!!! Spend more time loving and caring!!!
Sad. Even when I am not doing anything, I am trying to think of better, more effective ways of avoiding Wal-Mart.
]]>that's a nice record to get into the record books....btw,,,merry christmas everyone......
]]>WoW! She beat my record. My wife and I shopped at a Walmart once for more than 5 hrs. Lol! We must have no life, lol. I can't believe that that old woman beat our record, :-D
]]>Ok we need more info on this one! Was her heat turned off at home? WHat did she buy? Was she escaping the holiday hell of screaming grandchildren & annoying relatives at her home? Was she on a holiday shopping marathon? Or was she one of those seniors who isnt all there?
I used to work as a security guard & evey once in a while some elderly person would arrive at a closed store or restaurant at midnight thinking it was noon.... I kid you not!
]]>They come into our towns and stay forever, why can't she go into their store and stay 72 hours if she wants to? I thought that is what they wanted, for everyone in America to be at a Walmart 24/7?
]]>@trollkiller: If the police "Escorted her home", I don't think she was homeless.
]]>Either she has no relatives -- or got a bunch of uncaring relatives. Hope she didnt buy them presents
]]>Maybe she wanted a Wii...really bad.
]]>Every time I read one of your posts, my mind subconsciously narrates it with that deep voice.
]]>It's a 24-hour Wal-Mart, and she wasn't breaking any laws.
Personally, I think she's an extraordinary woman, because I can't even stand to spend more than half an hour in a Wal-Mart without losing my mind, and that's in the off-season. This woman deserves some kind of award!
]]>I think she didn't do anything wrong technically, but spending that much time at a store that you sleep, eat, and use the facilities probably isn't right either.
Did they say what she bought? Being able to buy a pack of gum doesn't mean she's not homeless.
Gwinnett=homeless?
]]>I tend to think that this is more of an isolated, this-lady-is-insane case, rather than an example of rampant Christmas spending. But maybe I am underestimating Americans' shopping habits.
]]>@vaxman: I have 2700 songs in my Christmas collection...are you talking about me?
]]>Instead of kicking her out, you would think Wal-Mart would have dressed her in a happy face vest and put her at the front door asking, Would you like a basket?"
]]>If it wasn't for that line I would have assumed she was just homeless. Now I simply shudder at what her home must be like.
]]>what could she possibly be doing for 72 hours? She had to have covered every square inch of that store several times.
]]>Seriously I hope one of the cops that escorted her home checks in on her. Sounds like dementia is setting in.
]]>How to tell when christmas has gone to far in your life... That or she really likes christmas music on a 5 hour loop...
]]>I can't think of anything right now. I think america needs to chill with this whole christmas spending BS though....oh there we go I did think of something.
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