Spring break at Wal-Mart (Student lives in a Wal-Mart)

[TomInTib]

Skyler Bartels kept looking over his shoulder. It's a habit he picked up living at the Windsor Heights Wal-Mart for three days.

Really living there. Eating, sleeping, checking out the DVDs, never leaving. The plan was to spend his entire spring break there. Under the radar.

Some kids go to Cancun. Skyler Bartels, a Drake University sophomore from Harvard, Neb., went to the garden and patio department.

The great experiment had been over for a few days, but Bartels was still in great-experiment mode. As we sat at a booth in the Subway sandwich shop toward the front of the store, he glanced at the friendly white-haired Wal-Mart greeters.

Were they onto him? Why were they staring? Bartels was still suffering from greeter phobia.

more:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060327/OPINION01/603270342

[ima_sinnic]

1. this kid might be unaware of a movie where the character lived in

a Wal-Mart for some time. I think it was Sissy Spacek but I could be wrong. Her husband or boyfriend abandoned her there so she just stayed for several weeks. This one closed at night, though. She borrowed bedding and an alarm clock every night and then got up just before they opened every morning. I think she even had a baby while she was there. Maybe someone can remember this movie better than I can.

[BonnieJW]

3. Where the Heart Is

Natalie Portman

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. 41 Hours - Last time I shopped in Walmart

The checkout line seemed about that long.

[emulatorloo]

4. kicking n/t