Oh Georgetown...

Okay so I need to share this with the few of you who click on my blog every now and then.

On Monday I went to HEB on I35 to pick up a couple of things for dinner. As I was coming up to the check out line I remembered that the People Magazine issue with Portia De Rossi and Ellen Degeneres' wedding pictures had come out. So I began to look for it in the check out line I was in and couldn't find it. There was a magazine turned around with its backside facing me, but I was looking for the beautiful cover of the two of them looking so wedding day like. So I went to the next line to see if it was there. Same thing, no magazine but the same magazine that was turned around in the other line was turned around in that line too. I pulled it out of its wire basket and turned it around and realized that it was People, and all of the People magazines were turned around in that line.

I thought to myself, "Seriously!?!?!" So I went to the other lines down the aisle and realized that all of the People Magazines were turned around. UGGGG GEORGETOWN!!! So while I was checking out I asked the clerk what the deal was with all the magazines being turned around, he proceeded to tell me this. "Well we've had some complaints about it, people are saying its just not an appropriate magazine to have in the check out. It's not family friendly."

What the hell?!?!? WTF!?!?

Not family friendly!?!!? So the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition, the tabloids with jacked up celebrities, and the Cosmo's with kinky sex tips are family friendly? And this magazine isn't!??!



PUHLEASE!!

So I then proceeded to ask to speak to a manager. So he calls one over. This guy looks like he could be my younger brother... How is he qualified to run a grocery store?!!? As he's walking over I began to feel bad about the hell he's about to get from me, but then I quickly shoo that thought away because I know that I've got to stand up for equal magazine rights! :)

Here's the conversation, well ass kicking really that took place:

"Hi sir, I was just wondering why all these magazines are turned around?"

"Well we've had more complaints about these magazines being turned around than people buying them, so we're just trying to please the majority of our customers. We're trying to find a compromise so people who would like to buy them can, we can keep them in the designated place, and those who find it offensive don't have to see it."

"Well sir, I find it offensive that its turned around, quite frankly this is discrimination. If you are going to turn these around than all the tabloids, the sports illustrated swim suit edition, and the cosmos need to be turned around."

"Maam I'm sorry that you find it offensive...."

"No. This is whats going to happen. When I come back, if I come back to this store. They had better be turned back around, or you will find a lawsuit bigger than Texas on this store. And believe me it will be worth it for me to do that over a magazine."

"I understand maam. I hope that you found everything you needed today and that you will come back and see us."

"That depends on you sir."