World of Wal-Marts

A few years ago Tim and Sarah gave us a pepperball for Christmas. We love pepper and we loved our pepperball. Wel, a couple days ago Theo threw our pepperball on the floor with enough force to break our pepperball. Very sad. So, we added pepperball to our grocery list.
In our area there are three Wal-Marts. The first is located in the commercial center. We went there once. As we were walking there were a group of Amish girls were walking in and a mother and son, a very typical mother and son for this area, walked in and the son looked at the girls and yelled, "F***ing Amish!!" Maybe if the mother had done something other than nod in agreement it wouldn't have bee so offensive (okay, nothing could have made it less offensive.) We swore we would never go to that Wal-Mart again. Then there is the Wal-Mart we do go to. It is new, clean and in a newer part of town. I am not going to say that it doesn't have its share of questionable characters because 1. it is Wal-Mart and 2. we live in Indiana. The third Wal-Mart is on the other side of the university. We call it the "student Wal-Mart". Although we haven't sworn it off like we have the trashy Wal-Mart, we try to avoid going there. The name says it all.
Last night we had to go shopping. We were only a couple blocks from the student Wal-Mart and didn't didn't want to have to drive to the other side of town so we slummed it. Well, I went looking for a new pepperball. In all of the Super Wal-Mart they had 1 short isle which included all the pots, pans, knifes, kitchen accessories, etc that they carried. I guess when you cook on a hot plate and/or eat McDonald's for every meal, that's all you need. What it some down to was they had no pepper mills, not even a pepper shaker! What they did have were ashtrays. Not one ashtray but many ashtrays in a variety of colors and sizes. Apparently, ashtrays are kitchens essentials but flavor in your food is not. I love Wal-Mart.