In my professional opinion, Target has gone downhill. I don’t know if it happened when they switched to the crazy plastic shopping carts that look like they should have wings on them, or when they remodeled and put in a grocery store. Either way, it’s been sometime fairly recent.

Side note: I wonder if the new plastic carts will hold up as well as the old ones when you ride in them and race down hills? Not that I ever did that in high school. (We used Lucky’s/Albertson’s carts, duh!) But I will bet ten bucks that some chunky kid will come along and try to climb in the cart from the front and the thing will snap apart and the kid and all the groceries will fall all over the ground. Then his mother will scream at and hit him as he lies on the ground crying. Video footage please find your way onto YouTube when this happens. End side note.

My Top 3 Reasons Why Target Has Gone Downhill

1. Lowriders
As I pulled into the Target parking lot tonight a low rider was pulling out. A low rider taking the turn on three wheels and bouncing up and down. I would expect that at the Dollar Tree, but Target? Sheesh!

2. Girls That Say Stupid Things
As I was walking around, somewhere around the mouthwash, I heard a girl ask a Target employee where to find something. The employee responded with whatever aisle the product was on and continued to stock his shelf. The girl walked off with her boyfriend and said, “I use to know this store like the back of my hand but now everything is so different OMG!”

Really? Who even talks like that? Are you and the back of your hand that close that you know it that well? Please go back to Wal-Mart where you can talk like that. Your bf will feel much more comfortable in his sleeveless TapouT shirt at Wal-Mart as well.

3. Making Out
I saved the best part for last. As I was walking into Target I happened to pass by a younger couple that were making out up against the side of a car. When I say, making out, it was just a little kissy kissy. It was like make out, make out, make out…oh baby I love you…make out, make out.

Side note: Ladies, if this is where your man likes to do most of his making out…run! This should be your first and last hint that he isn’t good enough for you. Guy, if this is where your girl likes to do most of her making out…high five! They say it’s all downhill once you get married so take it where you can get it! End side note.

From the brief moment I saw it happening out of the corner of my eye, I could totally tell that the dude had terrible make out technique. (But we will save the make out technique talk for another day.) Yet homeboy still felt it necessary to mug me for some reason. Sorry sir, I didn’t mean to invade your private space on my way into Target for mouthwash and cereal by seeing you represent classy America in the parking lot at Target. My bad.

Now something like this I would expect at Wal-Mart or maybe even Big Lots, but Target? I thought Target parking lots had more class. Maybe I was wrong? I’ve been wrong once before, but it was in kindergarten so I don’t remember it all that well.

After seeing the lovely couple making out, I posted a tweet about how classy I thought it was. One of my former friends responded with, “don’t be jealous.” I say “former friend” because I decided we aren’t friends anymore after having him point out my jealousy.

Has this happened to you lately? Maybe you called out a friend and they couldn’t handle it so they don’t talk to you anymore. Maybe you got called out but couldn’t handle it so you didn’t respond in the best way possible. When someone is going down the wrong path or doing something they shouldn’t, isn’t it our job as their friend to call them out on it? In a Christ like way of course. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like people are getting more and more upset when someone who cares about them calls them out on something they see is or could be a problem for them. Stop letting this happen people! You need these kinds of people in your life for balance.

How well do you call someone out?
How well do you respond to being called out?

PS I am still friends with the guy who called me out…but I might make him buy me breakfast or something…

PPS Clean up your act Target…I am watching you!