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 Post subject: You be the judge
PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 10:58 am 
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I thought about putting this in the DBOTW section, but I am not sure where I stand on this.

It's movember, and I needed to find some fake mustaches. I drove past a dollar store so I decided to go in and look for them.

As a side note, it is perspective changing to go into one of those and see people shopping for food and other stuff. It made me feel lucky to have what I have. Anyways, back to the reason for the thread.

I found them, and took them to the front register. My bill was like $2.30 and the girl behind the counter asks me if I would like to donate a dollar to buy a military child a gift for Christmas. I figured that was nice, and I'm baller enough to not need a dollar, so I said yes. She then pulls out this cheap ass fake etch a sketch thing that probably cost about 2 cents, scans it, and throws it into a bin where there are all sorts of other cheap toys that will probably break before the kid even gets home with it.

Now, I had two concerns, assuming that is what the dollar store is actually giving them.
1) What a cheap ass piece of garbage toy. The toy aisle was filled with better toys than that. My fake mustaches were better than that.
2) Is that really it? I can only imagine that toy costs the Dollar Tree about 20 cents. Are they taking 80 cents of profit per toy? If so, that's terrible.

Now, it's obviously better than nothing, but I can't help but feel unfulfilled about my generous donation?

So, is Dollar Tree doing anything wrong?

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 Post subject: Re: You be the judge
PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 11:07 am 
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Please explain the purchase of fake mustaches.

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 11:08 am 
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Please explain the purchase of fake mustaches.


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 Post subject: Re: You be the judge
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T-Bone wrote:
Please explain the purchase of fake mustaches.
I don't think anyone should ever need to justify the purchase of a fake mustache.

The womenfolk I will be around do not have the ability to grow them.

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 Post subject: Re: You be the judge
PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 11:24 am 
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 Post subject: Re: You be the judge
PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:57 pm 
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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
[The womenfolk I will be around do not have the ability to grow them.


I don't like these workplaces who are prejudiced against Italians.

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 Post subject: Re: You be the judge
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Keeping Score wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:

As a side note, it is perspective changing to go into one of those and see people shopping for food and other stuff. It made me feel lucky to have what I have. Anyways, back to the reason for the thread.

I pretty much have the opposite perspective after shopping a Dollar Tree. I find they have tremendous values and wonder why more people don't shop there to be perfectly honest with you.
This. Paper plates, napkins, pint glasses, cheap toys for the dog to destroy, hand soap, all stuff I get regularly from the dollar store.

If it happens to be the only toy a kid gets on Christmas, its going to make him happy to have a present to open and play with for a little while, even if it is a 30 cent piece of crap. I don't think they are doing anything wrong.

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 Post subject: Re: You be the judge
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Good effort by dollar tree just misthought. I think it may serve them better to just donate a dollar toward a gift fund. If this is bugging you enough to post on message board, then maybe email someone from their website and give them that idea?

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 Post subject: Re: You be the judge
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I once lived in a town too small to sustain a Wal-Mart, so it only had a Dollar General. My trips there were more memorable than trips to a dollar store should ever be.

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 Post subject: Re: You be the judge
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I don't care for companies that abuse the good will of their employees and/or customers and then take a bow themselves, let alone profit from such "charity".

On a somewhat related note, an Italian restaurant on Harlem in Harwood Heights has a Christmas tree and asks customers to bring gifts to be distributed to underprivileged children. A couple years ago my cousin brought such a gift and while she was eating dinner saw a young friend or relative of the owners open the gift she had brought. She was told that it was the child's birthday and they had no gifts for him and her gift would be replaced.

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 Post subject: Re: You be the judge
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So, we spent most of the weekend in the city. All in all, it was awesome.

However, after eating lunch in the Hell's Kitchen area, we were walking and we stopped at an intersection. All of a sudden, a person who would best be described as unstable gets right in my face and starts talking about how bullshit the regents exam is and all sorts of other stuff. Eventually, the light changes and I start walking to get away from him. He then says, in my wife's direction "You're a bitch and a fucking burrito. I'm going to beat the shit out of you". We continue to walk, and he realizes that Boilermaker Rick is not one to fuck with, so he goes on his merry way.

So, who was wrong in this situation? Was it me or him?

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 Post subject: Re: You be the judge
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What would you be wrong about? That guy was clearly the a-hole.

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 Post subject: Re: You be the judge
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We need to know if you were wearing your fake mustache before making the call.

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 Post subject: Re: You be the judge
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I picked up a bunch of decorations for Christmas for my daughter at dollar tree today. Its good for stuff like that

I loaded up!

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There's gotta be a way to blame bigfan for this whole shit thing.

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 Post subject: Re: You be the judge
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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
So, we spent most of the weekend in the city. All in all, it was awesome.

However, after eating lunch in the Hell's Kitchen area, we were walking and we stopped at an intersection. All of a sudden, a person who would best be described as unstable gets right in my face and starts talking about how bullshit the regents exam is and all sorts of other stuff. Eventually, the light changes and I start walking to get away from him. He then says, in my wife's direction "You're a bitch and a fucking burrito. I'm going to beat the shit out of you". We continue to walk, and he realizes that Boilermaker Rick is not one to fuck with, so he goes on his merry way.

So, who was wrong in this situation? Was it me or him?


It was him.

And you can relive the experience almost very day in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood.

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