Everyone knows that the perfect summer is not complete without a rousing game of ultimate frisbee. However, this is particulary hard to accomplish when you have no frisbee. Brad and I decided to remedy this problem by heading to Wal-Mart to buy a frisbee. You would think that in the dead of summer Wal-Mart would carry a large selection of frisbees, ranging from the little kiddie ones to the Wham-O competition disc that is needed for a proper game of ultimate. Wrong. Those jokers didn’t have one frisbee in the entire store!! How can you possibly call yourself a supercenter without a frisbee? Unbelievable. So we travel across the street to the mall hoping to find a small sports store or department store that would carry a frisbee. We went into K’s Merchandise, which is perhaps one of the most ghetto stores I have ever seen, but hey, its cheap. We get to the sports section and find a nice selection of billiards cues, poker chips, and weights, but no frisbees. So I ask one of the nice employees in the store if they have any frisbees and he says, “Uhhh no” with a kind of egotistical air in his voice. Like they are too good to carry frisbees, or frisbees aren’t really a true sporting item. Completely taken aback by this comment, I just walk away in disbelief. Carbondale has disappointed me today, and tonight I placed an order online for a Wham-O ultimate frisbee 175 gram competition disc. You know you live in a small town when you have to order a frisbee online….sigh.
That it is pretty crazy. I’ve bought frisbees at Wal-Mart supercenters before. That store is jacked up. i can’t believe they don’t have frisbees, especially with the multiple disc golf courses in town. Oh well. I guess it’s sad because I know that you don’t need more reasons to be dislike Carbondale. I want you to enjoy your time here, but the school and local businesses are making that hard.