So I went to Wal*Mart today to pick up a couple of things – hell, the only things I ever buy from Wal*Mart: undershirts and hair gel, and as I was pulling up I noticed a massive line that stretched the whole block and then rounded the corner (probably a good quarter mile or so). Part of me didn’t want to drive in and have to deal with all of this, but the other part wanted to know just what could make about 1,000 people stand there in line in the hot sun all day outside of Wal*Mart of all places. I finally parked and walked up, where I saw a news crew and some local celebrities interviewing the first person in line, who had said he had been there since 5am, and figured out what all the fuss was about.
Apparently today, in honor of L&L Hawaiian BBQ’s 89 years in Hawaii, they’re selling plate lunches for 89 cents. Well, I assume they’ve been around for 89 years and the price isn’t some arbitrary Wal*Mart price that they’re famous for “rolling back.” My point is: why? They had a slew of local celebrities saying garbled things over a distorted cheap PA system, as well as a hula dancing group that consisted of about 12 people with Down’s Syndrome in aloha shirts waving their arms in the air like they just don’t care. I really wanted to get a picture of that, but I was already laughing and didn’t want to come across as that big of an a-hole.
What really got me though, is that all these people would wait in line for so long, for something like the picture on the left. I’m not sure exactly what is in that plate lunch on the left, I’m not ever too sure exactly what is in any plate lunch, but I can’t seem to justify waiting for 9 hours in line to get one of those for 89 cents. I couldn’t even justify that for free. Is it the experience? Is it fun? Seeing tards hula and your favorite local news anchor? Personally, I wouldn’t be caught dead waiting on the side of the road in a quarter-mile line to get into Wal*Mart just to buy a plate of rice and over-mayonased mac salad for 89 cents. I could save the 5 hours and just go through the Mc Donald’s drive through and get a 99 cent double cheeseburger if I really wanted diarrhea for under a dollar.
Edit: 9:04pm – Apparently I was mistaken, the price for a heart attack is actually 79 cents. Or 76, I forget, and don’t care too much – either way, everything I said still applies, I guess even more so now.
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