If you’re feeling “badgered” to propose after five years of dating, you were never going to propose. There’s nothing wrong with not wanting to get married to someone or to anyone ever but cut marriage-minded folk loose.
This! If I were badgered to propose I sure as fuck would drag my feet about it too. I don’t know if it was pride, fear or rejection or just laziness but whenever someone made it clear they aren’t interested in me (same for getting married) I was more than happy to move on.
Or how about: Do you ever think about the fact that if the sun suddenly went out, no one on earth would know for seven minutes?
I’m one of those people who every now and then forgets how to interact, and when I want to jump in on a discussion I’ll have a weird thought process. Like if 2 people are talking about movies, I’ll be all [hmm, movies ==> movie stars ==> stars ==> stellar lifecycles] “HEY GUYS DID YOU KNOW THAT IN A FEW BILLIONS YEARS…
Yeaaaa the best marriages are built upon pushing and nagging. The more people hear it the stronger your bond will be.
I don’t know why, but the way you said “that’s AGGRESSIVE aggressive” reminds me of one of my favorite lines from The Simpsons, when Bart joins a boy band but it turns out the boy band is really using subliminal messaging to get people to join the Navy. When Lisa confronts Bart’s manager, LT Smash (i.e. Lieutenant…
Uh, that’s not passive aggressive. That’s AGGRESSIVE aggressive.
In Minneapolis there is a much-loathed KMart because it is built directly in the middle of a major street that has to redirect around it. People always wonder why we don’t just tear it down and open the street.
The question isn’t about our experience. The question is about the SHAREHOLDERS. These things have changed ownership; who got those billions for brands? Bet they’re happy.
Shoppers get to see the ground level decline of places as the moneylords bleed them dry. You should SEE the new infinity pool, though.
The USPS was much more an active part of daily delivery life before Congress set about destroying it (in process for about 20 years now). Sears probably also had locally based delivery systems in place, but I don’t doubt that the Postal Service was able to handle a lot of it.
Sears shopper here, and a millennial. Perhaps I’m the only one! Anywho, I bought a house over the summer, and Sears was surprisingly awesome for buying a washer/dryer, a lawn mower, and a bunch of other random stuff. The people who worked there were actually quite helpful, and the store has some crazy ass rewards…
My hometown is extremely small. The mall and large amount of independent and chain stores that were open while I grew up have closed. Nevertheless, the Kmart survives. I hate going there when I visit. The physical store itself is just a shell now; full of empty shelves due to the lack of merchandise.
It’s especially shocking that this happened to Sears. I remember seeing an ad in a vintage catalogue where you could even get, by mail order, everything in a kit like for a dollhouse except it was to build a real full-sized home. They should have been the first to offer online shopping and been Amazon on steroids.…
I still unfortunately work for Macys but in the credit office. They’ve let go all the long time store folks a few years ago because they were earning too much and hired a consulting firm. What you see now is the result of that consulting firms work.
Every time I hear that another swath of K Marts are closing, I worry. My hometown’s KMart (rural NY) is the only non-food store that’s standing. It’s a desperately poor area where many people’s lives are constrained by the fact that always-reliable cars are a luxury, and the KMart is a necessary walkable option.…
I haven’t been to a Kmart in the US in probably two decades (and imagine they sell a wider range of stuff) but in australia they managed to revitalize themselves by going full-Scandi in all of their furniture and home wares and selling stuff that actually looks good. They are super popular here now it’s crazy.
And as someone who likes to buy things in person, especially clothes, I rue the day when the only way to obtain even basic items (produce? life saving medicine?!) will be through a computer screen.
It’s unreal. Macy’s now feels like KMart did 15 years ago.
I am always surprised when I see a Sears or Kmart that is still in business. For a long time, Sears at least had appliances and tools, but I think they have sold those off. Why would anyone shop there?