I'm still trying to wrap my head around Oprah's purse.

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45. I think the saying goes like this

Once I was sad because I could not look at a $38,000 purse in Switzerland then I met a guy with a $35,000 house.

She can complain about it all she wants, but you generally do not get any sympathy for your paper cut from a guy who lost his arm in an industrial accident, do you? And it is possible the amputee might have some sympathy if only he was not told that the victim's paper cut proves that he has privilege.

I mean, really, shall we all sing a chorus of "nobody knows the trouble I've seen" for the poor, poor victim who only wanted a $38,000 purse in Switzerland?

Hey, Oprah, I had a crappy shopping experience or two myself. Went to Nebraska Furniture Mart one day to get an MP3 player. Employees all over the place, but none offers me any help. Find the MP3 players, locked in a glass case. Nobody around to show me one, or explain if I can play my WMP files on it. Go to another area and look at laptops while I am waiting for some help. Finally, an employee asks if I need assistance. I said, yeah, I am looking for an MP3 player. He points to the locked case some 30 feet away "they are over there". I said something like "yeah, they are locked up". He says something like, yeah they are too easy to steal or something. He does not offer to show me one of them. Does not offer to FIND somebody else who can help me to buy one of them.

At this point, I am rather steamed and figure that this store does not deserve to pass GO, does not deserve to collect my $200 that I was ready to spend on an MP3 player. She could not get ONE employee to open a locked case for her. I couldn't apparently get a whole store full of them to even speak to me.

I shall now wait with baited breath for the state of Nebraska to issue a public apology to me (even though the store with the lousy service was in KCK).

Oh, and if only I was black, or female, (or both just like poor Oprah) then I could tell the homeless white guys I meet how this makes them totally privileged in their white skin or with their Y chromosome and penis.