A sample of some of the mail I get about this site:
My name is k**** b****** of Fresno. And I was wondering why the save mart store on fruit ave is so run down. Is it because a poorer group of people shop there? and you don’t care its just a buck to you. Because I have been in the other stores and it seems Like there pretty nice,not like the one one fruit. I no what it is,you spent to much money on the save mart center and your over your head to really care about whats important. If you can’t take good care of all the stores just the same you should get out of Fresno period. Fresno Is getting run down and big corp like yourself should help because Fresno needs that kind of help. Thank you very K**** B*******
I get an average of one or two messages a month from people complaining about the service at Save-Mart, or asking me for a job at Save-Mart, or asking me where the closest Save-Mart is located. And, to a one, they’re all from people who seem as incapable as this one of (a) composing a sentence, (b) of spelling words like “you’re” or “they’re” or “know”, or (c) of using punctuation…
I’m not sure what it is about Save-Mart. The biggest problem, I think, is that the chain doesn’t have its own website and that my page on its history and architecture is one of the first to come up on most search engines. After clicking, the visitors with IQs above 60 (the ones who can actually compose a coherent English sentence) quickly realize that my site is not Save-Mart’s site and move on. The rest send me email…
I know it has nothing to do with the Central Valley in general, because some of the most intelligent life on the planet comes from there. And, as this recent quote from a Chronicle article on the RIAA suggests, Bay Area residents aren’t always the brightest bulbs in the chandelier either:
I thought, if it’s on the Internet, it must be OK… I thought it was becoming legal.
If it’s on the Internet, it’s OK. Classic. That would explain the spam, the child pornography, and all the assorted penis-enlarging schemes, not to mention the occasional virus or worm. To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, there is indeed no underestimating the intelligence of the American public…