I suppose he could have been ruminating over inflation with the high cost of cigs and booze at a 1st Ave convenience store, and perhaps more philosophically about capitalism, but more likely he's just yet another very dangerous and disturbed individual who has multiple anger issues of which economic theory is only one of a multitude of trigger points. And the clerk will not just yet live another day with ubiquitous capitalism, but more days with his family as well.

Nevertheless Charles, I enjoyed your milking of the event.

To the Pike Place Market car bigots:
https://seattlerefined.com/lifestyle/photos-pike-place-market-throughout-the-years#photo-2

Grouchy PM roundup. So much for a little lightness and frivolity. Everyone is selling gloom and doom!

So wait: is it a sparrow or a swallow? That didn't clear things up at all.

@4:

If it's a swallow, is it an African or European swallow? And is its unladen air-speed velocity of any relevance?

@8: bingo retort

@5,

It can't be an African swallow, they're non-migratory.

Cute pic, Charles.

@3
paywall
that bitch.