Got milk?

[x_expat]

Yesterday I went to the grocery store to pick up milk and a few other items. I usually go to the store on the corner, two blocks from my house. Part of the Publix chain, it's a nicer store than all the others in my rather spotty area (my neighborhood is an oasis of gentrified civility amidst a sea of used car lots and no-tell motels), so everybody

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[evil_little_dog]

Well, then.

At least most of the ones I see in my neighborhood are just toothless and/or drunk.

[x_expat]

Nooo, we get the ones with character, like this tiny, hunched over woman dressed all in black, with heavy pancake makeup and big red circles of rouge on her cheeks (an aging Goth?) or the skinny old gay guy in the tight, tight shorts and pseudo-military outfit who drives a pristine Willys jeep. Plus our usual contingent of welfare moms and scruffy rednecks. And the firemen from the station next door.

I have to be careful--some of the managers in my company live nearby. One guy high in the food chain emailed me once to ask if I lived in the area because he thought he saw me at Publix. Meaning I can't go in there in my ratty shorts and sweats anymore.

[evil_little_dog]

Oh, that sucks, that you have to dress to go grocery shopping.

Fortunately, Boss is horrified I shop where I do ("That place is ghetto!"), so it's unlikely I'd see him there.

...not that he'd probably care, anyway.

[tochiro998]

I....I...

What the hell, it's not much different from where I'm living, I just want to know, did Moon Man FIND whatever it was he was digging for?

I mean, ew.

[the_kiggy]

That's why I drive a little farther away to my local Kroger or HEB, rather than the corner gas station store.

ICK!

[x_expat]

Do you seriously want to know? I don't care if Jimmy Hoffa was in there--you don't use your fingers to search for him. Bleh!

[tochiro998]

Well, maybe not for Jimmy Hoffa, but if Judge Crater or that flight of TBM Avengers on that training mission that vanished in the Bermuda Triangle turned up, that would be news.

Or maybe lost episodes of Doctor Who...yeah...

gah

[ext_89007]

Back in Brooklyn, there was one Waldbaums which we swore was either haunted or else built over an Indian burial ground. Every time we went in, we witnessed craziness and people getting into a fight. It sounds as if you've found that store's cousin.

It's too bad Moon Man isn't the Man on the Moon. :-b

Re: gah

[x_expat]

I don't think it's just this store. I think it's Florida in general.

B<

[evil_little_dog]

"All the nuts roll downhill to Florida."