Nape's Space

Globalization siezes to amaze me as much as it has engulfed me. Tonight my grandparents stopped by on the way to florida (yet more snow birds offering thier trailer to the hurricane gods). So they call us up and tell us to meet them in the Walmart parking lot as the trailer is too big for the city streets. So we arrive and they have a whole set up ready to go. My grandma goes and buys cookies and water in Walmart. The boys hang out in the camper and drink beer. If it was sunny, we would of set up four frickin chairs in the parking lot and hooked up the BBQ. Instead we wondered to the Boston Pizza on the other side of the lot. I tell you, there is something totally wierd about stumblin out of somebody's house after a few pops and finding your self among a swarm of families shopping...how out of place you feel. "Hey, who put that damn shopping cart in front of the door?" The reality is that Walmart has found another way to attract customers and kill local businesses. While the trailers pile up at walmarts accross continental North America, the trailer parks go bankrupt and the local businesses are blurred by the parking lots lights. In Whitehorse, Yukon, Walmart has set up plugs and water points for the trailers. The zombie travellers flock there cause it is free and convienient. Personally, I understand the reasoning behind it, but it is still fucked up.