thank you so much! please keep voting, I'm up to 175!

thank you so much! please keep voting, I'm up to 175!

I hope you're posting this to twitter and facebook!  ;)  ;)  ;)

 

use twitter hashtags

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I have twittered it every day, but as you know I'm not on FB.

Man some people just overkill the "hipster look"  Trying to be different, but so much the same as their friends....and their friends hanging around Chicago's Wicker Park.

 

Today I was on the 7th floor of Macy's getting lunch with a coworker.  This dude walks in with skinny green jeans some raggedy overstretched blue striped tank top with thick black glasses and heavy mustache.  My coworker says "What's the first thing you think of when you see that guy."  I said, an elf.  My coworker says unemployed.  Sure enough we were in the same elevator heading down.  The girl he was with that seemed to have a completely different personality said "don't worry just keep looking for jobs around town, you'll find something eventually."  The guy needed advice.

 

1.  Many Chicago businesses are hiring

2.  All of them that pay decently will consider you when you take them seriously by changing your wardrobe.

3.  You are in one of the largest department stores in the midwest.  Look about you for some more professional attire.

I have twittered it every day, but as you know I'm not on FB.

 

be sure to use hashtags

Man some people just overkill the "hipster look"  Trying to be different, but so much the same as their friends....and their friends hanging around Chicago's Wicker Park.

 

Today I was on the 7th floor of Macy's getting lunch with a coworker.  This dude walks in with skinny green jeans some raggedy overstretched blue striped tank top with thick black glasses and heavy mustache.  My coworker says "What's the first thing you think of when you see that guy."  I said, an elf.  My coworker says unemployed.  Sure enough we were in the same elevator heading down.  The girl he was with that seemed to have a completely different personality said "don't worry just keep looking for jobs around town, you'll find something eventually."  The guy needed advice.

 

1.  Many Chicago businesses are hiring

2.  All of them that pay decently will consider you when you take them seriously by changing your wardrobe.

3.  You are in one of the largest department stores in the midwest.  Look about you for some more professional attire.

 

Didnt we have this conversation before?  You need to dress appropriately looking for work and at the job you have.  Dress and work for the job you want not the job you have.

 

You friends says hipster=unemployed, thing no. 1 says hipster=homeless, since he can not tell the difference.

 

Whenever I see those little hipsters in their stretch skinny jeans and wool cap (in summer) I just want to spritz them with bleach!  It's such an unbecoming look.

Yes, yes, I know about the hashtags.  by the way, have you voted today? :) I'm up to 132!

 

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/7830524/German-throws-puppy-at-Hells-Angels-bikers-then-flees-on-bulldozer.html

 

The URL really should be enough for you to click through :)

Whenever I see those little hipsters in their stretch skinny jeans and wool cap (in summer) I just want to spritz them with bleach! It's such an unbecoming look.

i want to tear off their moustaches. they're not ironic anymore.

 

Also, i want to grab their PBR and tell them to eff off and they can drink a working man's beer when they actually do some work.

Whenever I see those little hipsters in their stretch skinny jeans and wool cap (in summer) I just want to spritz them with bleach! It's such an unbecoming look.

i want to tear off their moustaches. they're not ironic anymore.

 

Also, i want to grab their PBR and tell them to eff off and they can drink a working man's beer when they actually do some work.

 

You guys should read this, if you haven't already seen it: http://diehipster.wordpress.com/

 

If you can't actually beat them to bloody pulps, you can at least laugh at them. 

There are so many people f-ing up the world right now, I don't understand the antipathy towards hipsters.  They're a harmless clique.  Big deal.

So I guess I really need to step up and get a smartphone.  I just got back from spending three nights in Ocean City, MD with no internet and one of my friends just told me to "get a god d@nm smartphone already."

I'm thinking to myself, is this realization valid?  Or is it just ridiculous...  :?

There are so many people f-ing up the world right now, I don't understand the antipathy towards hipsters. They're a harmless clique. Big deal.

 

Exactly.

ooooh.  I am up to 94!  Keep voting, if you're so inclined!  http://bourdainmediumraw.com/essays/view/1281

Crap, I forgot to vote yesterday cause the Case network was down for practically the whole day!

well, I do appreciate the votes and the comments, if any of you are the ones leaving the nice comments.

91 now! I think the trick to that site is getting Bourdain himself to comment. If you've got his interest I have to think you're in the inner circle. He seems to be drawn to the ones with salty language in the title. Maybe if you end your title with 'Godammit!'

ITA, and I think in order for me to do that I'm going to have to continue to climb, though breaking the top 100 is VERY awesome and I'm close to getting an actual shot.

http://datingmyself.tumblr.com/

 

Wow. That's creepy. Photochops of couples with the same face. Some are celebrities, some just regular people. All are creepy. Reminds of the Aphex Twin videos...

There are so many people f-ing up the world right now, I don't understand the antipathy towards hipsters. They're a harmless clique. Big deal.

if you read that website that Ram23 posted, you'll see why some people hate them.  I actually don't have that much anger towards...well, anyone...but, i do dislike the general attitude of hipsters (at their worst).  The website shows a large amount of anger at the way that hipsters are moving into that guys South Brooklyn neighborhood and using Daddy's money to drive out long term residents.  That's a pretty specific and small group of them, over all...but, still the anger is easy to empathize with.

 

I really hate that hipsters are making awesome facial hair into a joke among normal people.

There are so many people f-ing up the world right now, I don't understand the antipathy towards hipsters.  They're a harmless clique.  Big deal.

 

It's probably Emo kids that are angry about growing up that complain about hipsters!

If you're prone to motion sickness this may not be for you, but I found it to be a lot of fun.

 

http://www.firstpersontetris.com/

FYI, since my post originated the discussion, I don't dislike hipsters at all.  I just found it ironic that in the elevator, the guy couldn't get a clue why employers weren't giving him the time.  Would've not thought about it too much until he said he was actually stopping by places picking up applications....I'm assuming dressed like he was.  I personally would not hire someone who walks in not taking a potential job seriously.

 

I'm more concerned about stupid people, like I saw today.  Currently lollapalooza is going on in Chicago.  The city and police departments have been concerned about large crowds falling out of formation the sidewalks so they've put up fencing along the streets.  Along LSD there is currently a chain fence about 3 feet high.  Behind that they constructed a 4' mesh fence.  Then behind that they constructed a 6' chain link fence.  The same thing exists on the other side of the expressway except without the 6' high chain link. 

 

STILL, a stupid bunch of kids jump the fence and run across the expressway.  When they get to the other side, they begin climbing the 6' high fence.  About an 80' run of it begins to tip over under their weight, falling onto the soutbound lane of the lakefront bike path.  I'm heading northbound and one of the girls who was climbing the fence falls face down onto the path.  I slammed on the brakes nearly missing her head, as she fell in front of me  Other bikers and pedestrians had to dodge the fence climbers as well.  Everyone seemed to be all right, but it was a huge mess of screams and squealing brakes.  Unfortunate for the fence climbers, the cops were rolling nearby on segways.  One of them saying "you don't know how much trouble you are in."  I'm assuming, it would be some sort of reckless endangerment charge, and depending on the seriousness of the risk to other people, it could be a felony.

 

I'd like to say generation after generation, kids don't seem to realize the consequences of their stupidity.  You thought running across 10 lanes of traffic and jumping a fence would be okay.  Harmless right?  Just imagine if that fence fell on a baby in a stroller or knocked over some elderly person.  Or from my own experience, fall off your bike and get a nasty gash in the head.  We have rules and regulations for a reason.  It's far from being "not a big deal"

Youth, and many American males well out of their youth, don't really believe anything bad is going to happen to them, deep down. They just think it won't happen to them. In some ways, that's just how people learn.  You fall down running around the wet pool and get a bad scrape, you don't run anymore, you walk.  But usually with people in their teens and 20s, they know of the bad things that can happen, and are just utterly convinced it won't happen to them.  I just read some story in a mag about a young couple that were on their way to going camping and stopped on the way as they saw a big bunch of boulders they thought it would be fun to climb, above a creek.  In flip flops.  You can imagine how that went.  It ended with the guy cracking his skull open on the wet rocks and nearly bleeding to death from it, while his 115 pound girlfriend dragged his 160 pound ass somehow off of the rocks on her back til they got down to a level where there were other people and she could get someone to call for help.

 

I think this is s why so many men wait until they have a heart attack in their 40s or even 50s to start making major lifestyle changes. I've heard from many men the argument that "I'm going to enjoy my life as long as I can until I HAVE to make some changes."  There is no even serious consideration given to the fact that you may not have the chance to make changes, you may just up and die.  And usually with those who wait until their 50s, it's too little, too late.  I think some adult women think this way too, but the ones with reckless lifestyles are usually much fewer in number than males their same age.  I think it's because women start dealing with pain so much earlier in life and find that you can't run away from it, and that you want to do whatever you can to avoid it. 

There are so many people f-ing up the world right now, I don't understand the antipathy towards hipsters.  They're a harmless clique.  Big deal.

if you read that website that Ram23 posted, you'll see why some people hate them.  I actually don't have that much anger towards...well, anyone...but, i do dislike the general attitude of hipsters (at their worst).  The website shows a large amount of anger at the way that hipsters are moving into that guys South Brooklyn neighborhood and using Daddy's money to drive out long term residents.  That's a pretty specific and small group of them, over all...but, still the anger is easy to empathize with.

 

I don't understand why hipsters are always targeted as this group of people living off of their parents money or using their trust fund to live in high priced neighborhoods. There are tons of young people doing that, who aren't hipsters. It's hard for young people to get good stable jobs while having to pay off student debt and so they have to rely on their parents' help. Most kids in their 20s are broke as hell right now.

Youth, and many American males well out of their youth, don't really believe anything bad is going to happen to them, deep down. They just think it won't happen to them. In some ways, that's just how people learn. You fall down running around the wet pool and get a bad scrape, you don't run anymore, you walk. But usually with people in their teens and 20s, they know of the bad things that can happen, and are just utterly convinced it won't happen to them. I just read some story in a mag about a young couple that were on their way to going camping and stopped on the way as they saw a big bunch of boulders they thought it would be fun to climb, above a creek. In flip flops. You can imagine how that went. It ended with the guy cracking his skull open on the wet rocks and nearly bleeding to death from it, while his 115 pound girlfriend dragged his 160 pound ass somehow off of the rocks on her back til they got down to a level where there were other people and she could get someone to call for help.

 

I think this is s why so many men wait until they have a heart attack in their 40s or even 50s to start making major lifestyle changes. I've heard from many men the argument that "I'm going to enjoy my life as long as I can until I HAVE to make some changes." There is no even serious consideration given to the fact that you may not have the chance to make changes, you may just up and die. And usually with those who wait until their 50s, it's too little, too late. I think some adult women think this way too, but the ones with reckless lifestyles are usually much fewer in number than males their same age. I think it's because women start dealing with pain so much earlier in life and find that you can't run away from it, and that you want to do whatever you can to avoid it.

 

What do you expect? We have testosterone running through our veins. I rock climb (well, "bouldering") without a rope and harness. I only go 15-20 feet high, max though. It's the highest distance where I can still land on my feet if I fall and feel comfortable doing it. It's not as bad as it seems but you talk to a lot of people when you go to those places and they love to tell you stories about going rock climbing with no padding, rope and harness and fall 40 feet, putting themselves at risk of getting killed. You have to use good sense but even cautious rock climbers like me want to get a little bit of a thrill out of it.

LOL. It probably is the testosterone.

Rock climbing is a fun experience! You should try it. Just take a class on it and rent some equipment so there's no risk. The best rock climbers from what I've seen, are women because they're so flexible. You meet so many friendly, interesting people who will walk up and introduce themselves to you, give you advice and they LOVE to exchange stories about their traveling experiences. They remind me of people on UrbanOhio, how we get that itch to get out and try new experiences or else we get restless.

I'm in cincy for some work in the morning. Anyone know a good building for urban exploring along 71 I can hit up on my way out of town?

There are so many people f-ing up the world right now, I don't understand the antipathy towards hipsters. They're a harmless clique. Big deal.

if you read that website that Ram23 posted, you'll see why some people hate them. I actually don't have that much anger towards...well, anyone...but, i do dislike the general attitude of hipsters (at their worst). The website shows a large amount of anger at the way that hipsters are moving into that guys South Brooklyn neighborhood and using Daddy's money to drive out long term residents. That's a pretty specific and small group of them, over all...but, still the anger is easy to empathize with.

 

I don't understand why hipsters are always targeted as this group of people living off of their parents money or using their trust fund to live in high priced neighborhoods. There are tons of young people doing that, who aren't hipsters. It's hard for young people to get good stable jobs while having to pay off student debt and so they have to rely on their parents' help. Most kids in their 20s are broke as hell right now.

 

Maybe because the other group of people are more responsible by moving back home with their parents to reduce costs and pay off debt? 

 

I'll launch my final attack against the hipster.  They don't recycle.  I was in Wicker Park today and was surprised to find the trash bin loaded with newspapers, soda cans, and bottles while the very easy to use recycle bin next to it had barely anything, but was flooded with non recyclable trash.  Of course, for that extra urban grit feeling, more of that trash was strewn about on the street.  I guess we could get into the debate that David pointed out, "lots of people don't recycle either"

...  I guess we could get into the debate that David pointed out, "lots of people don't recycle either"

 

True. My nieghborhood has a reputation of being home turf for socially-aware, artistic & creative types. Real estate prices are fairly high, and many of the residents are homeowners in their thirties and up, professionals with good incomes. Participation in curbside recycling is <30%, despite that the cost is included in water/sewer bills so that everyone is already paying, whether or not they participate.

 

Among the ones who do recycle, a large number are careless and indifferent to doing it right. The recycling vendor provides two tubs, a yellow one and a brown one. The yellow tub is for clear, brown, and green glass, #1 and #2 plastics, and alumimun and steel cans, containers only. The brown tub is for newspapers, magazines, catalogs, phone books, cardboard, etc. Pickup is every second Tuesday.

 

On pickup day I see recycling tubs loaded with all kinds of crap, wrong stuff in the wrong tubs, and household glass like light bulbs, broken dishes, ceramics, and window glass in the yellow tub. Every year the city sends out a recycling guide describing how to use the tubs and listing drop-off sites for other stuff like motor oil, batteries, printer cartridges, styrofoam, etc., but people just can't be bothered to pay attention and do it right.

@David, I've enjoyed hiking/climbing up stuff that doesn't require equipment, like Camelback Mountain in AZ or the various valleys and hiking trails in LA, but when you get into equipment and going UP, I'm just out, not interested.  I'm fairly clumsy and I have a fear of heights.

Pardon the interruption, but I humbly ask my fellow UOers for your votes in a writing contest I've entered.  I am not much for internet "whoring" for votes, but this is really important to me, and I think in order for my entry to be actually read and considered, I will need to achieve and maintain a high ranking, which is dependent upon votes.  You can vote every day until the contest ends on 9/30.

 

For those of you who are food-minded (mrnyc are you here?) or just curious, the contest is to have your essay appear as the introduction to Tony Bourdain's newest book.  This is HUGE.

 

You must either have a FB account or create a username and password on the contest entry site to vote, which is unfortunate, but dem's da rules.  I did PM this to a few people but I really need more votes, so I'm posting it here in case others of you will vote.

 

Will you please consider voting for my essay, today and every day until end of Sept?  Thank you!

 

http://bourdainmediumraw.com/essays/view/1281

 

Bumping this up.  I'm stuck at #78 so I could use your votes!  You can vote every day until the contest ends on 9/30.  Pls send to your FB friends and/or retweet as well.  Thank you!!

...  I guess we could get into the debate that David pointed out, "lots of people don't recycle either"

 

True. My nieghborhood has a reputation of being home turf for socially-aware, artistic & creative types. Real estate prices are fairly high, and many of the residents are homeowners in their thirties and up, professionals with good incomes. Participation in curbside recycling is <30%, despite that the cost is included in water/sewer bills so that everyone is already paying, whether or not they participate.

 

Among the ones who do recycle, a large number are careless and indifferent to doing it right. The recycling vendor provides two tubs, a yellow one and a brown one. The yellow tub is for clear, brown, and green glass, #1 and #2 plastics, and alumimun and steel cans, containers only. The brown tub is for newspapers, magazines, catalogs, phone books, cardboard, etc. Pickup is every second Tuesday.

 

On pickup day I see recycling tubs loaded with all kinds of crap, wrong stuff in the wrong tubs, and household glass like light bulbs, broken dishes, ceramics, and window glass in the yellow tub. Every year the city sends out a recycling guide describing how to use the tubs and listing drop-off sites for other stuff like motor oil, batteries, printer cartridges, styrofoam, etc., but people just can't be bothered to pay attention and do it right.

 

 

There's two ways to modify behavior. Option 1 is how NY State went about it in the 90's. 'You will recycle. You will wash all containers and remove all labels, and you WILL sort appropriately, or we WON'T pick up anything. We'll just leave your trash with a friendly yellow sticker on it telling you what a dumb@ss you are'. I had recycling drummed into my head all through my college years. I was so programmed that when I moved to Ohio, I was horror stricken to see that they didn't even have the 5c deposits on cans.

 

Option 2: Do what my current city does. 'We recognize that you're either too lazy, or too dim witted to figure out what we want, so here's a giant blue bin...on rollers so you don't have to lift it (god forbid). Just throw everything recyclable in there, and we'll sort it out.'

 

 

Then you have my wife on the other end who tries to recycle everything. Everything including important papers, dirty containers, etc... Bam, pile of papers she hasn't sorted? In the recycling bin. I have to sort through the papers each week and pull out the bills and personal information that should be shredded.

 

The best part of recycling? I get to see what the neighbors are drinking and I know where to go for a  good beer.

 

There's two ways to modify behavior. Option 1 is how NY State went about it in the 90's. 'You will recycle. You will wash all containers and remove all labels, and you WILL sort appropriately, or we WON'T pick up anything. We'll just leave your trash with a friendly yellow sticker on it telling you what a dumb@ss you are'. I had recycling drummed into my head all through my college years. I was so programmed that when I moved to Ohio, I was horror stricken to see that they didn't even have the 5c deposits on cans.

 

Option 2: Do what my current city does. 'We recognize that you're either too lazy, or too dim witted to figure out what we want, so here's a giant blue bin...on rollers so you don't have to lift it (god forbid). Just throw everything recyclable in there, and we'll sort it out.'

 

Option 1 has a predictable consequence here; we're not that big a city, and most people have cars. If penalized for not recycling properly, people will just load up their trash and recyclables and dispose of them along a country road, in a ditch, creek, or river, or in a farmer's field or woodlot. The city has discussed encouraging recycling by charging a fee for trash beyond a specified number of bins, but dropped the idea because it would only be an incentive for illegal dumping.

 

Now, Option 2 looks like it will happen here with the next solid waste contract.

Actually, I've grown up in two cities where sorting recyclables was not necessary.  Just throw everything in the bin.  Don't worry to much about washing everything out...as long as jars aren't half full of apple sauce or boxes have half a pizza in them, you're good.  If you don't know if its recyclable, doesn't matter, throw it in. 

 

When I went to U of M and lived in the dorms, recyclables were thrown in a storage closet.  The university did not require you to wash them since the students had no means of doing so, unless you wanted to clog the bathroom drains.  Items were moved to the basement] where people who worked for facilities would pick through and sort them. 

 

I was shocked when I moved to Chicago that we actually had to manually sort things in bins.  It's not a matter of laziness, recycling should be convenient.  Our bins are overflowing and some people just dump everything all over the basement floor or leave it in stairwells, and even worse the freight elevator.

All that sorting reminds me of recycling films form the '70s that they showed us in school.

I just got some new kicks (black and silver Air Max) after my Pumas fell apart when I've only had them about a month and a half  :wtf: Pumas must not be made well. It's funny how when you go into a shoe store and try on new shoes after having your old ones on, you realize how badly you need to get rid of the old ones lol

I'm not a shoe person though, I just buy a pair and when they get bad enough, I buy another pair and throw the old ones away. Pumas must not be made well; I never have any luck with Pumas but I really liked the design.

I just got some new kicks (black and silver Air Max) after my Pumas fell apart when I've only had them about a month and a half :wtf: Pumas must not be made well. It's funny how when you go into a shoe store and try on new shoes after having your old ones on, you realize how badly you need to get rid of the old ones lol

I'm not a shoe person though, I just buy a pair and when they get bad enough, I buy another pair and throw the old ones away. Pumas must not be made well; I never have any luck with Pumas but I really liked the design.

 

You know, I don't really dig Pumas.  I have heard so much hype about them too and I don't understand it.  I tried some on yesterday and they did not feel right.  I know I have been wearing skate style shoes for about 6 years now but they still felt so weird.  I was looking for the Adidas Sambas and the Pumas were recommended since the store was out of the Sambas.

All that sorting reminds me of recycling films form the '70s that they showed us in school.

 

I remember during WWII, how Mom and Dad would rinse tin cans thoroughly, remove the labels, use a can opener to remove the lids from both ends, and then flatten them and save them in a box. When the box got full, Dad took it somewhere to be recycled. It took a while to get a full box, because Mom didn't use a lot of canned food. We had a garden, and we ate from that a lot.

 

There were vitually no plastic containers, and milk came in glass bottles that got reused forever or until they got broken. The dairy in my hometown used glass bottles at least into the late 1960s, and in 2000 I saw milk in glass bottles in a supermarket in New Hampshire.

 

There was a lot less packaging in general, then; people shopped for the basic ingredients and prepared most foods from scratch, so we didn't have all the foil and microwavable packaging (no microwaves).

 

There were vitually no plastic containers, and milk came in glass bottles that got reused forever or until they got broken. The dairy in my hometown used glass bottles at least into the late 1960s, and in 2000 I saw milk in glass bottles in a supermarket in New Hampshire.

 

I've seen milk in glass containers recently (at Heinen's maybe?). Maybe it's coming back en vogue.

 

There was a lot less packaging in general, then; people shopped for the basic ingredients and prepared most foods from scratch, so we didn't have all the foil and microwavable packaging (no microwaves).

 

Whaddya mean, you had these things:

 

 

"By late 1946, the Raytheon Company had filed a patent proposing that microwaves be used to cook food. An oven that heated food using microwave energy was then placed in a Boston restaurant for testing. At last, in 1947, the first commercial microwave oven hit the market. These primitive units where gigantic and enormously expensive, standing 5 1/2 feet tall, weighing over 750 pounds, and costing about $5000 each. The magnetron tube had to be water-cooled, so plumbing installations were also required. "

 

http://www.smecc.org/microwave_oven.htm

 

I can't imagine why they didn't take off....

Watercooled? Jeez, and the whole neighborhood knew when you were heating up a cup of coffee because all of the lights dimmed in a 10 block radius.

 

Geeky factoid: Microwave ovens actually use long wave lentgh macrowaves to cook food. Micowave just sounded cooler.

Hartzler's milk is the milk you see at Heinen's, it's also sold at Annemarie's cheese stand at the west side market, and yes, it comes in big glass bottles but they're expensive initially and then you get a discount when you return them each time for a new bottle.  People shopping at Heinen's don't get the discount/return bottle policy thing, they just see that it's $$$ more than regular milk so they don't buy it. 

^Milk is such a commodity it's hard to convince people to move away from the pour and dump model with plastic / cardboard containers. I'm intrigued now. I'll have to check it out next time I go shopping for milk (which in my house is like 3x a week anyway. Seriously, kids, do you bathe in the stuff??)

 

I'm trying to get everyone in the family to drink Brawndo. It's got electrolytes.

Hartzler's milk is the milk you see at Heinen's, it's also sold at Annemarie's cheese stand at the west side market, and yes, it comes in big glass bottles but they're expensive initially and then you get a discount when you return them each time for a new bottle. People shopping at Heinen's don't get the discount/return bottle policy thing, they just see that it's $$$ more than regular milk so they don't buy it.

 

I usually buy Hartzler's at Annemarie's, and it comes out to $3.99 per half-gallon after the bottle deposit; it's the same price as the organic milk you buy in the carton. Can you return the bottles to Heinen's as well?

I don't think so.  They also won't take back egg cartons for recycling from dairies that accept them back for recycling and say to just turn them in to the store.  It's these sort of niggling little details that keep me from being more of a Heinen's shopper.  I want to like them, but the pre-packaged asparagus on little styrofoam trays with 5 pieces in it at a big markup is just not how I want to buy my produce.

^I've never understood who's buying that stuff. I guess someone is, but it's right next to the regular produce which is cheaper (but, you know, out in the open and, like, not in plastic).

 

 

I don't think so. They also won't take back egg cartons for recycling from dairies that accept them back for recycling and say to just turn them in to the store. It's these sort of niggling little details that keep me from being more of a Heinen's shopper. I want to like them, but the pre-packaged asparagus on little styrofoam trays with 5 pieces in it at a big markup is just not how I want to buy my produce.

 

I also don't like being forced to use their cart boy service.  Are you supposed to tip them?  I never know.  It always makes me feel really uncomfortable.

I love going in the Heinen's in Rocky River.

 

(WARNING Playful Stereotyping Ahead)

 

I can be the poorest, youngest most ethnic person in a store for once. Seriously it's like the set of a "Cocoon" remake in there...

 

 

@ doc : i usually end up carrying all my bags out because I don't like the cart service too.