WalMart Toys: American-Tax!

A diary-like portrait of what makes WalMart shopping simultaneously convenient...and drunk.

A shoppers' vignette, inspired by Toys. 

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WalMart is the American 'hallmark' of convenient life, and it's where I go every now and then to get supplies for our NJ/USA home, and while I'm there, I indulge in a secret daydream.

I was born in Algeria and moved to the United States and became a citizen. I studied in the Ivy League. I didn't think my life would be a WalMart path but a Starbucks path, but I'd been wrong. WalMart has suddenly become something of a 'drawing' tot his modern immigrant 'nerdist' of capitalism-dioramas.

The WalMart experience is all bout consumerism sanity and convenience intuition. It's commerce/capitalism at its most convenient and chain-like! You can find just about anything at WalMart.

Now, the secret 'daydream' I have at WalMart, when I go to visit for my home-supplies/good furnishings is the toy-aisle visitation. Yes, folks. I always take some extra-credit time to visit the toy-aisle at my WalMart. I go there, and I may not buy anything, but I peruse the collection of toys and why/how they represent pure American daydreams!

The toy-selection at WalMart is quite excellent! In fact, there's nothing 'wrong' with these toys at all, and there's quite a 'wide' selection of toys at the WalMart(s) I visit and the particular one I visit regularly for home-supplies/goods. The toys at WalMart are in great domain-range and range from all kinds of toy-companies, including Fisher-Price!

One day, I decide to purchase a nifty toy water-cannon from WalMart for summer neighborhood playtime! This will be an excellent choice. It'll remind me why 'convenience imagination' in Western capital(ism) is a symbol/reflection of general lifestyle daydreams. I'll play with this WalMart gun with the community kids who've known me in the area as the local teacher. WalMart has given me a great boon, indeed.

Of course, this daydream has nothing at all to do with reality. There's a real 'American-tax' bonded to the WalMart shopping experience. There's something truly convenient and 'dogmatic' simultaneously with the WalMart shopping experience --- a convenience-based intelligence...and 'distant' daydream.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)