Pumpkins Are Food
Pumpkins are food...I know that, I like pumpkin pie. They of course are also considered a decoration during Halloween around here...and probably wherever you are as well. What I can't get past is how ridiculous the unwritten rules of conduct are that (apparently) people live by that the displaying of these pumpkins makes plain, at least to me.
Several stores I frequently drive by had piles of pumpkins outside on the sidewalk...not a small pile either. They had them on top of the sign with the store's name on it, on the sidewalk by the entrance, in the aisle inside the store, everywhere. The most ridiculous display (to me) was pumpkins adorning the logo for the store that sits about ten feet from the street with the parking lot between the pumpkins and the store itself. Why doesn't anyone ever take any of these pumpkins?
There were homeless people standing on the corner in front of the store with cardboard signs begging for money. Don't tell me these people are too honest to steal? I know, you're saying, "They just want alcohol". Alright, you could use pumpkins to make alcohol...hell, they make it out of a lot of other things, why not pumpkins?
The unwritten rules will allow a store to put just about anything on the sidewalk as long as they put a price on it. Then, nobody steals it...for some reason. As far as I knew, that was the rule. I have gone into a lot of convenience stores that have sodas stacked up on the sidewalk with the price stuck on the side and nobody I have ever seen has walked off with anything from those displays. That is just plain crazy, but, that is the unwritten rule. Whoever came up with that rule was brilliant, they saved a lot of money building enough storage space for their inventory. To flip that around, I can put anything by the curb in front of my house and it will be taken within an hour by somebody...I guess that is another unwritten rule. If it's by the curb of a residence, it's "fair game". Someone should print up some documentation.
Getting back to the pumpkins, they didn't have a price anywhere around them...so, what are they for? If they are selling them, their logic escapes me. They piled food all over the sidewalk a few hundred feet away from people that claim they are hungry...what am I missing? If I were one of those homeless guys, I'd be running down the street with my shopping cart full of pumpkins! Don't look at me like that, you would too if you knew the rules...they didn't have a price on them.
We erect a lot of mental barriers without realizing it. We need to stop that. I'm not saying people should steal pumpkins necessarily (unless you're homeless), I'm just asking why it hasn't happened. I think it's a total lack of imagination...and that can cause a lot of problems.
Several stores I frequently drive by had piles of pumpkins outside on the sidewalk...not a small pile either. They had them on top of the sign with the store's name on it, on the sidewalk by the entrance, in the aisle inside the store, everywhere. The most ridiculous display (to me) was pumpkins adorning the logo for the store that sits about ten feet from the street with the parking lot between the pumpkins and the store itself. Why doesn't anyone ever take any of these pumpkins?
There were homeless people standing on the corner in front of the store with cardboard signs begging for money. Don't tell me these people are too honest to steal? I know, you're saying, "They just want alcohol". Alright, you could use pumpkins to make alcohol...hell, they make it out of a lot of other things, why not pumpkins?
The unwritten rules will allow a store to put just about anything on the sidewalk as long as they put a price on it. Then, nobody steals it...for some reason. As far as I knew, that was the rule. I have gone into a lot of convenience stores that have sodas stacked up on the sidewalk with the price stuck on the side and nobody I have ever seen has walked off with anything from those displays. That is just plain crazy, but, that is the unwritten rule. Whoever came up with that rule was brilliant, they saved a lot of money building enough storage space for their inventory. To flip that around, I can put anything by the curb in front of my house and it will be taken within an hour by somebody...I guess that is another unwritten rule. If it's by the curb of a residence, it's "fair game". Someone should print up some documentation.
Getting back to the pumpkins, they didn't have a price anywhere around them...so, what are they for? If they are selling them, their logic escapes me. They piled food all over the sidewalk a few hundred feet away from people that claim they are hungry...what am I missing? If I were one of those homeless guys, I'd be running down the street with my shopping cart full of pumpkins! Don't look at me like that, you would too if you knew the rules...they didn't have a price on them.
We erect a lot of mental barriers without realizing it. We need to stop that. I'm not saying people should steal pumpkins necessarily (unless you're homeless), I'm just asking why it hasn't happened. I think it's a total lack of imagination...and that can cause a lot of problems.
posted by itsjustme at 3:51 AM
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