{"id":1786,"date":"2007-12-17T09:05:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T14:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2007-12-17T09:38:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T14:38:51","slug":"pork-not-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"Pork Not – Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I wrote about an episode<\/a> where a WalMart cashier politely, genially asked me to pass a pack of bologna in front of the scanner for her.<\/p>\n

“No bigs”, I figured. Odd, in that “don’t touch pork even if it’s in a blister pack” is one of those rulings by a small, rather extreme group of imams<\/em> in the Twin Cities that aren’t recognized – indeed, draw chin-scratching – from Quranic authorities elsewhere. But whatever – I ran the offending product over the scanner – not much different than my not scheduling late-Friday meetings with my highly-orthodox Jewish colleague, or leaving cattle at home in my IT shop.<\/p>\n

No biggie. I paid it not much further thought.<\/p>\n

Except that yesterday, I was at WalMart again. And I saw the cashier.<\/p>\n

One thing I omitted from the original post; the cashier is hot. <\/em>Smokin’ hot. Yowwwww hot. She was wearing a headscarf, and an ensemble of Walmart-cashier duds that were stretched to maximum, tight effect.
\nI nodded, and she grinned. With her fully-visible fac<\/em>e.<\/p>\n

Now, let’s be clear here:\u00a0 I don’t care that she’s attractive.\u00a0 Indeed, in the interest of making a better society, putting up with attractive women is a sacrifice I’m willing to make.\u00a0 You can thank me later.\u00a0 And a smile is a very good thing.<\/p>\n

I just thought it was odd – the cashier is utterly punctilious about observing the most picayune edict of a group of fringe imams<\/em> when it comes to handling pork, but as re the whole “female modesty” thing, she’s completely out-of-mosque (and yes, some of the Somali women who work at WalMart do <\/em>wear the full robe ensemble)?<\/p>\n

I can hardly make it up fast enough.<\/p>\n

Of course, as Ed <\/a>and Katherine <\/a>show us today, you have to try to, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I wrote about an episode where a WalMart cashier politely, genially asked me to pass a pack of bologna in front of the scanner for her. “No bigs”, I figured. Odd, in that “don’t touch pork even if it’s in a blister pack” is one of those rulings by a small, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}