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# Living at the Wal
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/4302/
- Published: 2006-03-27T19:42:55.000Z
- Updated: 2006-03-27T19:42:55.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Humor, #wpChunk

Funny guy:

> Skyler Bartels kept looking over his shoulder. It's a habit he picked up living at the Windsor Heights Wal-Mart for three days.

> Really living there. Eating, sleeping, checking out the DVDs, never leaving. The plan was to spend his entire spring break there. Under the radar.

> Some kids go to Cancun. Skyler Bartels, a Drake University sophomore from Harvard, Neb., went to the garden and patio department. . . .

> This was part sociology experiment, part school project. Bartels is a writing major. Maybe he'd put it all down on paper and pick up an independent study credit, or even sell it to somebody someday. . . .

> Could the biggest, most successful discount store in the world really meet his every need? Twenty-four hours a day? That's what the TV spots were telling him.

> "That was the goal," he said. "To buy everything I needed at Wal-Mart."

> His father told him to go for it and offered to bankroll the project. . . .

> He lived off energy drinks, doughnuts, yogurt and Subway sandwiches.

> He figures he slept four hours out of the 41 in captivity. He'd catch a few minutes whenever he could - in a Subway booth or a restroom stall, which isn't recommended, especially with the night stockers bursting in every five minutes.

> "I got to the point," he said, "where I was adept at falling asleep on the toilet seat, which sounds kind of weird."

> The best place for dozing was lawn and garden, where the lights weren't so bright. Nobody worked there between 2 and 4 a.m. Bartels found a lawn chair, kicked back and wondered how life could be better.

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