I think its funny.
but if I ever get to the point where retired life makes me go to walmart out of boredom, well, that's a place I don't want to be, ever in my life.
Not walmart, but going there out of boredom to look at people, and I guess he considers people at walmart losers, seems the way he made comments about people there.
yeah, I reread it, the kid was playing along the whole time, he figured the guy was looney tunes.
I guess the kid was offended that he was wearing a vet hat and wasn't a vet, maybe being a vet meant something to that kid, and he takes its meaning strongly.
its similar to when some 3 y/o shows you a self portrait he drew, and you say, wow, that's so beautiful! youre such an artist!
no harm done, no harm in playing along with a man who thinks he was in the war of 1812 in 1936, and then the guy sort of threatened the kid, so I guess the kid realizes wow, he is really deluded.
if some stranger asked me about do I have family and made a threat to them, I would have walked over to the sporting goods section, picked out a nice Louisville slugger and ended up in jail that day.