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Only 4 short years ago I used to drive people to the airport for a living. I worked in the Disney Area.
One day I picked up 2 families. This was about 6 years ago. A time before Starbucks on every block. The families were from Oklahoma and Nebraska. They were looking out the van window and eeewing and ahhhing... I asked them what the bub-bub was and they both said things like:
Wow, you guys ALL drive fancy cars... I asked them what a fancy car is and they said things like:
Anything from this year + the usual... BMW, Infinity, etc...
Plus you guys all have such big houses! And places to eat and get gas on every block!
And I told them that we are actually all less than poor. Most people in California owe someone $20,000 and I am not including cars loans or home loans... They were in shock. I told them about getting 10 credit card offers a month and they said they never got offers...
I picked up one family for the return trip. They were shocked by our commercials. They said they get commercials for things like transmissions but we get commercials for things like cell phones, computers, etc.. things you don't absolutely need. They were like, "Well, no shit you are all in debt! You guys are being sold everything in the world! Things we don't even have in our stores."
Of course now with Walmart they too can have all of those things too...
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