So I’m walking back to get some organic milk at Wal-Mart today, and I got a really strong whiff of pipe tobacco.
No one was around me, so I forgot it, continued down the side aisle and grabbed the milk.
Then I smelled it again.
What the (heck)?!?!?!?
Then I look to my right and see this guy taking a puff off his pipe.
I reached for the phone, but by then he had stealthily gripped it in his left hand back to his side.
With iPhone in hand, I stalked him for a while, but, alas, away from the safe confines of the dairy case, he never puffed again.
So I took this lame shot and a couple other lamer ones.
All the while wondering “Who in the (heck) thinks you can walk around the grocery store smoking a pipe in 2010?”
People of Wal-Mart. That’s who!
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Dude,
You’re coming dangerously close to getting manhandled there. Watch your back
Also, who stalks a guy in a grocery store, snapping off multiple photos with an iPhone?
Answer: Sam Bradley
Hey that was me!?! lol
Man .. I love Lubbock. That’s even better than the guy who rode around with a miniature horse in the cab of his truck.
Haha, Harsha! I am wary of the Wal-Mart police.
And Tim, since peopleofwalmart.com is an entire Web site, I am not along.
Simon, not unless you got a LOT older.
Jessica, that Shetland pony was pretty awesome!