You know you spend too much time in WalMart........

-megalithanod · August 23rd, 2004, 05:29 PM

From CNN:

Longtime customers wed at Wal-Mart

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Somewhere between the junk food aisle and the automotive department, Pat Byrd and Bill Hughes fell in love.

So it was only natural that they should marry where the magic happened -- Wal-Mart.

"It never dawned on me to have it anyplace else," said the 55-year-old bride.

Neither bride nor groom work at the discount store. Still, they spend more time there than many employees do, wandering the aisles and visiting friends for up to six hours a day, nearly every day since the store opened two years ago.

"I talk to people and walk around for exercise, and we always buy a soda or a sandwich or something," 51-year-old Hughes said. "If we're not here, the store people worry about us. They're our family."

Both Pat Byrd and Bill Hughes are disabled. They met nine years ago, when Bill was a patient at a North Idaho hospital and so was Pat's sister.

"He became a good friend, and when my sister died, we kept him in the family," she said. "He doesn't drive, and any time he went to Wal-Mart, I'd take him."

They celebrated their blooming love with a ceremony Friday in Wal-Mart's garden center. The store manager was a groomsman, and a fabric department employee was matron of honor.

A garden center employee, Chuck Foruria, walked alongside Pat as she rode her motorized shopping cart down the makeshift aisle, her oxygen tank in the basket.

"Who gives this woman in marriage?" asked Stacey Garza of the Free Will Church.

"Her friends and family at Wal-Mart," Foruria replied.

**Moviemaniac4** · August 23rd, 2004, 05:33 PM

I wonder if Wal-mart will give them some discount.....

What will happen if a women give birt at a store ? Do they get free stuff for life ?

Hey, airlines give free tickets for life if it happens in a plane [img]tongue.gif[/img]

**Darkest Angel** · August 23rd, 2004, 05:34 PM

...by the gods...that's...that's just fucking sad.

**thor16** · August 23rd, 2004, 05:37 PM

Whatever makes you happy I guess.

-megalithanod · August 23rd, 2004, 05:39 PM

I about fell out of my chair laughing when I read this line

A garden center employee, Chuck Foruria, walked alongside Pat as she rode her motorized shopping cart down the makeshift aisle, her oxygen tank in the basket.

**DARTH POOH** · August 23rd, 2004, 05:43 PM

ARRRGGG!!!
YUCK..I had the worst thought. What if they consummate the marriage there?? [img]graemlins/gulp.gif[/img]

**Peter Peeker** · August 23rd, 2004, 05:45 PM

I think it's kinda sweet, actually.

and MM4, I saw on the news, aboot a woman who gave birth in WM, and they gave her a boatload of free baby stuff.

**baimun** · August 23rd, 2004, 05:47 PM

Originally posted by -Dark Angel-:
...by the gods...that's...that's just fucking sad.

My exact thoughts.

**White Line Nightmare** · August 23rd, 2004, 05:49 PM

"Who gives this woman in marriage?" asked Stacey Garza of the Free Will Church.

"Her friends and family at Wal-Mart," Foruria replied.

The Walton family must be orgasming at the thought of commercial possibilities of the wedding. They probably haven't released any official press statements because the spasms are still too strong.

What's more heart-warming to Middle America than two fifty-something disabled people meeting and marrying at Wal-Mart, one of whom is being given away by a corporate wage slave?

It's so sweet that my teeth are rotting and falling out of my head as I type this.

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**baimun** · August 23rd, 2004, 05:54 PM

sweet??? SWEET????

You've got to be fucking KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!...

THIS is the part that you're missing:

Neither bride nor groom work at the discount store. Still, they spend more time there than many employees do, wandering the aisles and visiting friends for up to six hours a day, nearly every day since the store opened two years ago.

Go to the library, the park, SOMEPLACE... but Wal-fucking-mart?!?!?!?!

There's a name for that.... PURGATORY!!!!!!

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