Bye Bye Stop & Shop 408
The store which I have worked at for four years is closing its doors permanently tomorrow, and being transferred to some Stop & Shop in North Beverly. I've known of its closing for over a month but its only been recently (today while bagging) that I have begun to feel a strange melancholy. I started this job at the age of 16 Christ that feels so long ago. Its so weird knowing that the familiar faces that you've seen for 4 years will be gone. I worked the first day the story opened and I will also be there on its last shift, its so weird its like watching someone die.
Tomorrow I'm supposed to get carts from 1:30-6:30, and its weird know that these carts I've known just as well as the people, its as if with every cart I return to the store I'm also complicit in the stores own death. It like I'm holding a stake above the stores heart and with each cart I bring in I drive the stake deeper and deeper. This is the last time I punch in my code 4080516 into the time clock, tomorrow will be the last time I see Darren the Assistant Grocery Manager. I remember over the summer he pulled a muscle in his back and we went shopping all around Danvers looking for a back massager. I'll miss the times we would talk about the Red Sox continuously all night. I'll miss Arlene this elderly woman who would talk politics with me for hours, like today we talked about the Iowa Caucus. I'll miss the stupid front end girls who talk gossip all night. I'll miss the scalding heat and the bitter cold while getting carts. Christ this blows so much.
So much has changed since I was 16, I've gone to college, my cousin has gotten married, I have been through tough times but this has been the constant in my life for much of my young adult life, and now it will be gone. I mean there are some people I have never talked to at Stop & Shop but since I have seen them everyday for four years and yet I felt a connection and now we go our separate ways. There are some people I have worked with since the beginning of the store we're we both grew up and went off to college together at the same time and now its over. I mean I have known some of those people longer then mostly everyone who reads this journal and its over, yes I'll try to remain in contact with them through facebook but the liklihood is that I will never see them again. Right now I just can't wait to get back to school and my comfort zone. I have classes I really like, my TV's fixed, good friends that I haven't seen for a month. I did not expect this kind of emotion, yesterday I wanted to get out of there as quickly as I could, but today I didn't want to leave. Its weird most of the time when I talked about Stop & Shop it was like I loathed being there but I realize now I love that place, its where I grew up from a stupid teenager into a young 'man'. Well I guess all things change.
Tomorrow I'm supposed to get carts from 1:30-6:30, and its weird know that these carts I've known just as well as the people, its as if with every cart I return to the store I'm also complicit in the stores own death. It like I'm holding a stake above the stores heart and with each cart I bring in I drive the stake deeper and deeper. This is the last time I punch in my code 4080516 into the time clock, tomorrow will be the last time I see Darren the Assistant Grocery Manager. I remember over the summer he pulled a muscle in his back and we went shopping all around Danvers looking for a back massager. I'll miss the times we would talk about the Red Sox continuously all night. I'll miss Arlene this elderly woman who would talk politics with me for hours, like today we talked about the Iowa Caucus. I'll miss the stupid front end girls who talk gossip all night. I'll miss the scalding heat and the bitter cold while getting carts. Christ this blows so much.
So much has changed since I was 16, I've gone to college, my cousin has gotten married, I have been through tough times but this has been the constant in my life for much of my young adult life, and now it will be gone. I mean there are some people I have never talked to at Stop & Shop but since I have seen them everyday for four years and yet I felt a connection and now we go our separate ways. There are some people I have worked with since the beginning of the store we're we both grew up and went off to college together at the same time and now its over. I mean I have known some of those people longer then mostly everyone who reads this journal and its over, yes I'll try to remain in contact with them through facebook but the liklihood is that I will never see them again. Right now I just can't wait to get back to school and my comfort zone. I have classes I really like, my TV's fixed, good friends that I haven't seen for a month. I did not expect this kind of emotion, yesterday I wanted to get out of there as quickly as I could, but today I didn't want to leave. Its weird most of the time when I talked about Stop & Shop it was like I loathed being there but I realize now I love that place, its where I grew up from a stupid teenager into a young 'man'. Well I guess all things change.