Hey James,

My wife sent me this video of a rat appearing in the produce section at a Walmart in Humble, TX outside of Houston.

I know Walmarts down here are ghetto and it wouldn't surprise me, but I was wondering a few things since I'm also skeptical of anything I see on the internet. The lack of the typical excessive vulgarity from these darker denizens outside of just "damn" threw me off. Was this common during your tenure as the overlord of the ghetto grocery stores? Since that era generally predated widespread social media, did you ever have customers fake stuff like that to try to get a pay day? Not trying to defend the honor of scumbag Walmart but I could also see their clientele being the types that would stage shit like this to get money or attention.

Regards,

Luke

PS

Thanks for the extra book you sent. I appreciate the kind gesture.

Sir, when i arrived in Portland in November, i found that rats had infiltrated the plywood igloo. The old Ausie shepherd had died, and the worthless pitbull just watched as rats began entering the house through the doggie door. They then chewed through interior doors as the old ladies cringed in horror on the couch. The pest management companies just took money and smiled. My step son had made a mess of the garage—he lives in a shed now. This gave cover for the rats. In 2019 I saw 1 rat in Portland. This past winter I know three families who have had rats chewing through cheap exterior doors and brazenly taking over the house while humans were in the room they entered! Portland is not a big rat city. But the mild weather permits cheap built homes with interior doors on the exterior so long as an awning covers the exterior. Rats chew through this like mice through cardboard. When i arrived, the ladies told me, fearful and ashamed. The dog sulked as I told him he was worthless—as within a week of that other dog dying, the rats were in. I had previously gotten rid of mice. Mice and rats do not cohabitate—you have one of the other.

I began cleaning the garage and ran into a rat who ran deeper into Dog Soldier's discarded clothes and fast food wrappers. Litter for bedding and cover are rat attractions. They can chew through any wood. i noted that the door to the patio from the garage and the door from the garage into the kitchen had been chewed at the corner. I blocked off the outer hole. Then the rats started attacking the inner door while i sat on the coach next to that door—IT WAS ON! I did not rest until i had killed those rats with shovel and trap. Rats have been taking pressure from coyotes and foxes and are looking to get inside.

Expansion of rodent activity, historically, comes with wetter, or cooler or crowded circumstances. Since covid, dog and tweaker populations have boomed all over the nation. Trash is more common. Rats eat dog shit as a staple food. Coyotes and foxes are hungrier for rats. I do not know what this portends. Perhaps it is the limp-wristed, sissy nature of Americans, who are becoming effectively Hindoo?

Historically the Rat City Three are:

NYC

Boston

Baltimore

With Chicago and Philly probably 4 and 5.

To your questions:

Customers faked a lot of accidents, stole a lot, and sometimes claimed to have brought roaches home in paper bags, even though we had no roaches. i never had a rodent—oax—black folk tend to be fearful of rodents, basically like white women.

Mice are usually present in supermarkets. To avoid a plague stock management and cleaning are key, then mice killing. Since I drove off the rats, i have made the ladies keep the doggie door closed and have killed one mouse.

The funny thing is, black folks are much more terrified of rats and animals in general. They are used to living in areas near waterfronts favored by the aquatic Norway rat, and in areas with low sanitation, with trash-piled alleys. The result is generally an obsession with individual bodily and vehicular cleanliness and a lack of concern for trash outside of their dwelling and vehicle, to include crazy littering.

When black folks are really amazed at a negative or outrage, the most common expression is, "Damn!"

I have been out of grocery work for 9 years now. Rats in the wider world are on the increase. I think this has a lot to do with our misuse of small dogs as lap pets rather than ratters, and the fact that boys are not encouraged, even paid, for bringing in bags of rats. The rats know our cucked species is on the ropes and ready to quit, and stand waiting to dine on our remains and dwell in our sprawling sloth warrens.