Posted on 05/27/2008 1:29:53 PM PDT by Westlander
Matthias Jabs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sure am. World Headquaters for Ford truck/suv/Focus assembly is a mile away from me. Those that still have a job their (due to downsizing) are my neighbors. White collar and blue collar.
How did they handle it?
“a tan, 1-inch-long scorpion that had apparently stowed away in a shipment from Mexico.”
Did the scorpion press 2 for Spanish?
Oh, great - now Wal-Mart’s trying to drive all the Mom & Pop scorpion dealers out of business.
Parts are ‘gas chambered’ with insecticide now, and shrink wrapped in plastic prior to railroad shipment.
I never shopped in Walmart until the unions went on their jihad against them. Now, I shop there all the time. You can get some very good deals on toiletries and cleaning supplies.
It made new because it’s more unusual as opposed to being in Wal-mart. Who expects this to happen shopping for food in any store?
And yes, our forefathers and such had to deal with things like this, but I would hasten to suggest they were pretty much on perpetual alert for anything that could harm them. Most people aren’t thinking about having to anticipate scorpions and hairy spiders in the produce bin at the grocery store.
[stowed away in a shipment from Mexico]
...or brought in by a money hungry father.
I live on a ranch. I see more roaches and rodents etc in the city than I do out here where the spiders and the snakes keep them in check!
Americans have become a bunch of fata$$ sissies.
This summer there are nearly no wasps, no mosquitoes. This is due to the finch feeder on the porch. Don’t know how finches can eat wasps but they are acrobatic and can fly rings around the insects and pick them out of the air.
I don't know where you are, but it's not just finches here!
There have been surprisingly few skeeters here in Texas this spring, too. I suspect the long dry spell and late cool weather helped beat them down. Additonally, I noticed that the mud daubers were late, but once they hit this month, they're in force!
I agree with you but this is not the example that proves that.
A huge welfare state, people dying because they are 400 pounds overweight and their bodies cant support themselves, getting pissy because they can’t get into a nightclub, people who think the world ends if the cable goes out - all valid reasons.
Being stung by a scorpion in the grocery store and getting some ER treatment for it, not a good example of being a sissy. Sometimes the small things have a deadlier poison than the big things.
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