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John Waters’ hitchhiking trip across the US led to his stepping foot in a WalMart for the first time
Okay, I’m really looking forward to reading John Waters new book Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America which details his experience hitchhiking from Baltimore to San Francisco.
But until I get a chance to do so, I am enjoying the HELL out of the interviews he is giving to promote it such as this one with Lambda Literary.
Here is an excerpt about WalMart:
You mentioned some American staples you went to for the first time, like Walmart.
Yeah, I’d never been to Walmart. My favorite, though, was the arch in St. Louis. It is beautiful… I think it is the best public monument in the country.
Walmart….I had never been in one and my sister used to give me so much grief about it, “You are such a snob that you won’t go in there.” Well I’m not really a snob because I go to way lower places than Walmart, believe me. But I eventually went there because I lost my scissors to trim my mustache, so really my identity was fading away as my mustache got bushy and looked like the Baltimore weatherman.
Oh no.
So I went in a Walmart and my first thought was how big it was. The place was huge! There’s supermarkets in there. But I want someone to wait on me. I shop for one person. I’m not the right customer for Walmart. You go there to shop in bulk and stuff. I don’t care if it costs a little bit more to get one little portion because I don’t waste anything. And I could never find one person that worked there to ever ask anything. But it was at a military base so it was filled with soldiers so it was the porno Walmart. It felt like a Bobby Garcia film, who I wrote about in Role Models, the Marine porn guy, I felt like I was on the set of one of his movies.
So it was an especially good Walmart.
It was! There were really cute soldiers. But none of them would really make eye contact with me.
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