College Student in Wal-Mart for 41 Hours

[lovuian]

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Some students set out for sun-drenched beaches and tropical party bars for spring break. Skyler Bartels, a 20-year-old Drake University sophomore, headed for the local Wal-Mart.

Bartels, an aspiring writer from Harvard, Neb., thought he'd spend a week in the store as a test of endurance, using it as the premise for a magazine article. He called his adviser and she liked the idea.

"I just intuitively thought, 'This is brilliant!'" said Carol Spaulding-Kruse, a Drake associate professor of English. "I wasn't quite sure why, but it just sounded like a really good idea."

For 41 hours, Bartels wandered the aisles of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Windsor Heights. He watched shoppers, read magazines, watched movies on the DVD display and played video games.




He bought meals at the in-store Subway sandwich shop, but was able to catch only brief naps in a restroom stall or on lawn chairs in the garden department.

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I wouldn't want to live there!!!

[babylonsister]

1. Someone should have told him about Habitat in New Orleans.

I'm sure he would have gotten a lot more from that experience.

Wal-Mart for a week?:puke:

[lovuian]

2. Well he proved that Walmart has people practically

living in them...

[RandomKoolzip]

3. That's 41 hours he could have spent doing something

constructive. What a dipshit.

[fishwax]

6. or 41 hours he could have spent getting drunk in daytona

neither sounds like a great way to spend spring break to me ...

[freethought]

4. And the management never noticed? Not even once? n/t

[SIU_Blue]

5. it didn't say he was trying to unionize the place...

...that's the only time management takes notice of anything.

I can't stand 41 seconds in the place.

:puke:

[MrMonk]

7. The greeters were on to him

and a supervisor figured it out at the end.

Only 41 hours? Back when I did spring break, we used to go at it for days with no sleep.

And we had to roll full kegs up hill.

Both ways.

[madeline_con]

8. I don't believe it.

Wally World managers aren't that smart.

[Arger68]

9. Ironically, he was there as a customer,

not an employee locked inside!!

[0007]

10. Bet Security went absolutly nuts watching him!

[madrchsod]

11. a lot of high school kids in my wally world area

go to walmart to hang out after 11 till about 1 ..they walk around ,goof off,and some actually buy stuff. i can see where this guy would have no trouble in walmart

[LisaL]

12. Wow. That is amazing. It's not like there are any actual news

to report, of course. War in Iraq? What war in Iraq, when there is a guy who spend 41 hours in Wal-mart.

[scarface2004]

13. since when does 41 hours

equal a weeK? he could have bought some fresh t shirts, gone grocery shopping, hide out in the garden department, put on a blue vest and kept going!

[phylny]

14. How novel. Oh, except it's not, because there actually WAS a novel,

"Where the Heart Is" where the main character lived in a Wal-Mart for a long period of time.

[Vidar]

15. There was a movie about a girl born in WWalMart also.

[AnneD]

16. There was an episode of

Married with Children where the Bundies vacationed in a store, in the way only they could. It was great. I think the manager ma have paid them to go away (I can't remember it was a long time ago). Lighten up folks. He's a kid on break and was doing something (researching an article). Now If he had looked 'homeless' that would have been even more interesting, but he would not have been there for 41 hrs.

[yorkiemommie1]

18. i remember that episode!

back then i used to hate the show but now w/ bushgloom all over my world, MW/C seems funny.

[noonwitch]

17. 2 hours would have me screaming

I hate Walmart, but really, I don't want to spend 2 hours in any store (except bookstores). Even Nordies, my favorite.

[slackmaster]

19. Life imitates The Onion

I particularly enjoyed this one:

Pedophile Less Interested The More He Views 13-Year-Old's MySpace Profile

[sendero]

20. "We're a retailer, not a hotel"..

.... but why not I say? They have food, water, restrooms - all they need are tiny cubicles with beds that are made daily. I'm telling you, this could be their next great money maker!