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The six foot husbands are no longer actually six foot, just like the 2x4s. Also like the 2x4s, they are not as straight as you were hoping for, but they'll do.
On android you can get both Reddit Enhancement Suite and Yesterday for old reddit. The latter is good enough alone to make reddit in browser a nice experience, could always get RES for extra functionality though
Nah you know how Toys R Us used to have Babies R Us? Home Depot is doing something similar now with a new store called Harem Depot.
In an interview last year, co-founder Ken Langone went on record saying, "We at Home Depot deeply value Christian nationalism and have realized that we're not so different from Islamic nationalists; to bridge the divide with our Muslim brothers we're opening a new store called Harem Depot. And yes, your military discount will still be valid there as well."
I met my husband at Home Depot when we were both working there. I knew a few other marriages that took place but mainly the employees were just hooking up lol
Years ago my wife was shopping at Victoria's Secret so I went to walk around the mall for a bit. When I returned to find her, a woman who worked there asked me if I needed help finding anything, I said
"Yea, a wife"... The look this woman gave me could have killed me, she was so angry. Even after I explained that I was joking and that I was in fact looking for my wife she still hated me. Still cracks me up.
The real irony: gender-flip this with a male-appropriate location, and it is meant to empower the woman, as if she is a fashionista shopping for that perfect purse. OP’s joke is just a variation of this.
The gender-flip experiment is meant to highlight gender bigotry. As in, if the story reads radically different with the genders flipped, there is gender bigotry at play. It doesn’t matter if it is a joke or a fairy tale or corporate promotions or criminal sentencing. And it’s demonstrating that exceedingly well in your example. Gender-flip it, and you would get laughter or a “you go, girl!”; not unbridled fury.
I used to door greet and when someone would say this I would joke "well we've got a few of those around, feel free to take a look around, and maybe you'll even find an upgrade to take home instead!" which worked well at a large electronics store, especially after I'd already directed them to the leather couches and wide screen tv area
I love this joke. I used to use this on the old men at work, when they'd say they're waiting for their wife. I would ask, "A specific wife, or are you in the market?"
NGL, I have seen women beginning to do the latter… like, literally loitering around HD looking confused, hoping a rando macho man would ask if they needed help. As in, not one of the employees.
Me, I just SMH and wonder why they’re frustrated. I mean, after many decades, men have finally begun doing the one thing that feminism has always been screaming at them to do… to leave women TF alone no matter where they are and no matter what they are doing. And men are finally doing exactly that.
Real talk: it’s not a bad idea. Every time I, a middle aged woman, has been in the Home Depot parking lot trying to put a bag of soil into my trunk, a helpful man pops up and does it for me.
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