So they're violent prudes

That pretty much describes the so-called former ``silent majority'', doesn't it?

I haven't been in it in months, or bought anything there in at least a year. Never mind that it's all that's open in the early AM.

Exactly.

It'd be one thing if you could ever find anything, you weren't constantly impeded by crap lying around in the aisles, the employees were ever friendly or even not rude, or you could manage to get through the checkout line and pay for your purchase in under thirty minutes (maybe they could try using more than three of their fifty registers), even in the wee hours.

But it's not.