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The guys that run the corner store are from Yemen. Last week I came in quietly and caught one of them singing "Milkshake"... he looked pretty mortified to be caught. Sometimes he plays an Arab flute behind the counter.

There is a 14 year old kid that hangs out there all day smoking cigarettes. He never goes to school.

There's only men, never women that hang out there all day. They all look like they just woke up recently. They're all pretty friendly but look hopelessly bored.

Tell me about your corner store.

― andy, Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~2204051,00.html

(This thread inspired by the above Oakland Tribune article...)

― andy, Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a 7-11 -- one staff member is a slightly crabby old lady, another a quiet feller, another a vaguely garrulous older guy. There might be more. I assume 7-11 grows them in vats.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a little candy/snack store in the first floor of my office building. It's run by a friendly Indian man who calls me "buddy" and tries to make conversation. Everything is ridiculously overpriced, but people buy soda and stuff there because hey, it's right in our building.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

that sounds like the stand that was in the first floor of my old office building in Chicago. The dudes that ran it were really nice, I miss them.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Father and two sons from Pakistan. The dad went back there for about three months and in his absense the boys moved in a Playstation, two girlfriends and a CD player. The stock began to diminish and within a couple of months the bread/fresh groceries deliveries stopped. The shop began opening later and closing earlier, though sometimes light and music seeped from under the shutter.

A few weeks ago Dad came back. The Playstation vanished as did the girls. The deliveries began again. The shop is now back to it's normal self.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone collect those colorful long distance phone cards they sell in the liquor stores? Those are going to be big collector items in the coming years, mark my word. Nobody keeps them, especially attached to the sales card, and they all have cool graphics. Mark my word.

― andy, Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the corner store around from my house recently closed down. The liquor store across the street is reputedly run by a crazy woman, but I have not been in it (maybe for that reason). There's one further down on Greene that seems okay but is kinda out of the way.

on/around my ladyfriend's block, there are three fruitstands and four corner stores. The Lucky Seven, the closest one, is run by these nice Yemeni dudes who are always pleasant. They sometimes have a kitty in there named Fat'ma, we like to play with her.

xpost I was in another corner store on my ladyfriend's block and the lady in front of me bought a colorful "POLSKA" calling card.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

There's the Korean Bodega that's overpriced and only open till 8pm that's real close by. This morning I got a bottle of Orangina there to drink on the way to the subway station because I was really thirsty.
They're also good in a pinch for if the cat runs out of food.

There's the Korean bodega that's not as overpriced but always seems to have a very limited selection of stuff, just down the street a bit. I don't go there very often since I stopped buying 6 packs of Malta India.

There's the Korean bodega next to my dry-cleaners a little further down another street, they sell lots of beer and they have 1.75L bottles of Orangina and are not overpriced so much. That one is my favorite now since it's on the way when I walk home from the other subway station I use in the afternoons now that it's nice. I've been going through incredibly large bottles of Orangina at a frightening rate.

T/S Orangina vs. Malta India?

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

oh I forgot to mention the bodegas on Fulton that are okay but usually have drug dealers and/or homeless people wanting spare change out front. They're usually the most reliable place to find the Sunday Times tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I can see my corner store from my balcony, which is comforting. It's run by a Korean couple; the husband used to be a sushi chef but had to quit that fast-paced life when he got married. They have two kids and watch 'Fear Factor' a lot behind the counter. The wife appears to do all the work, shockah, while the hubby smokes outside and chats w/the customers. Recently they've started to sell musical stuffed monkeys

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I like buying cigarettes at my corner store because they never ask you if want them in a soft or hard pack, they just grab whatever. Making such trivial decisions as to hard or soft pack will drive me to an early grave, not the smoking.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It just seems like a pretty tedious existence. My local shop is right below a run-down residential hotel and is always filled with riff-raff. I'm treated like the gentry and called to the head of the line - I believe because I've never asked for credit and I've never caused a scene.

There was a shop I knew in San Francisco that was pretty well know for using indentured-servant workers... they would be flown from Yemen to the US but would have to work unpaid for a couple years to pay for the passage.

― andy, Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

hard or soft pack is by no means a trivial decision.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I love this thread.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a Europa Foods across the street from the flock of blats. I won't be sad to see the back end of it, coz it's ridiculously overpriced and getting more expensive by the month. The Asian lady who works the till is nice, though. And they have the full range of Lindt chocolates.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I was the "corner store guy" for too many years to count. I worked for the crazy Dutch guy at one store, the crazy Sufi guy at another, and last but not least, the crazy Korean guy. I got a lot of reading done at the last store. And I wrote some of my best Village Voice pieces there too on the backs of ripped up cigarette cartons. We, also, had a wide range of Lindt chocolates. 4 different corners all together.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a newstand at one corner of my street that sells periodicals, candy, cigarettes, chips, and drinks but i don't patronize it because of limited selection. the other corner has the santa barbara bodega, from which i sometimes get chick-a-stix or small packs of pistachios. it has that unfortunate bodega cat pee stink, though, so i don't go in very often. men working in such establishments usually hit on me in a very leering manner. anyone else have this trouble?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

nope.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, okay.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

andy, what is (was?) the liquor store about 2-3 blocks west of the west oakland station that was like a lean-to/shanty? that was one of the sketchiest buildings i've been in my life. my friend gr@dy runy@n (liqu0rb@ll/m0n0sh0ck) used to live across the street and i'd go in there sometimes, it was an adventure each time.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I know that place... it's ostensibly a fruit vendor. Yeah, it looks like something out of "Crossroads" or something - very picturesque. There's actually another liquor store near there with a dirt floor that accepts food stamps for video rentals.

― andy, Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Soft packs are yielding to the touch, like a good woman. And like a good woman they occupy my front pocket.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

the 7-11 down one block from me has bored-looking employees for the most part, except for one strange guy who will sing to you while you check out. I went in New Year's Eve and he was singing something in another language to me, then said "that means Happy New Year!" I asked him where the song was from and he said "I just made it up! It's not very good!" and shook my hand. All for a pack of gum.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The one across the street from the apartment I just moved out of was primarily staffed by middle-aged Korean women, one of whom always worked the night shift, therefore saw me several times a week. She was always sweet as pie to me (even gave me presents sometimes, like hair clips or jellybeans) except when I went in with my boyfriend and we bought condoms. Those times, she was very cold and stern, and the times immediately following condom-buying excursions, when I went in by myself, she always peered down her nose at me and said things like, "So, you live with your boyfriend?" It made us both rather uncomfortable. There is no corner store by my new place. There is a park and a drugstore and a liquor store, though, so I guess that's more than good enough.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

She knows all about girls like you...

― andy, Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Its the Costcutter right across from my window - there are loads of people who work in there, mostly Indian or Bangladeshi, and everyone has been really nice to me since I first hobbled in there on crutches. One of the two younger women who works in there said that my ankle needed a massage. I'm fairly sure that it wasn't a come-on.

The little corner shop on the heath is run by an old woman who looks like she's been a fixture in there since 1953, and there are boiled sweets in jars behind the corner and she always smiles with a knowing look when I buy Panini football stickers off her.

I will have a new corner shop in two days, this is exciting.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The assistant manager is a German woman, met her husband when he was stationed overseas. The husband died a couple of months ago and now she's more or less stuck in Mississippi with no friends or family, in her early 40s. What to do?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd know what to do... heh heh...

― andy, Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

she might be familiar with this town:

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

you might get some schintzell out of it

― anthony, Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite bodega near me is like a block up, on Audubon. This one older Spanish man there always cards me and laughs with delight and tells me, every single time he sells me cigarettes, to "congratulate my husband", whatever the hell that means, then he says something to the girl in Spanish and the girl says "He just thinks you're much younger than you are, he's weird and doesn't speak a lot of English" and then laughs. This is like a weekly thing now, it's quite strange. He's always very nice to me when he's not working the counter, too, trying to talk to me but really we don't speak the same language so it can be very stilted at times, my Spanish is shit now and his English is only marginally better than my Spanish. But he has started ordering Parliaments more often now than the store used to. Apparently no one in this neighborhood smokes Parliaments or Camels. The clientele in the store is bizarre and rude but I think that's more to some of the neighborhood denizens than anything else, I live near three schools so there's a ton of obnoxious teens/preteens at any given hour, and the women in my neighborhood are really extremely batty and questionable quite often. But still the old man and the girl and the young man in that store are quite nice and if they had more things I'd never bother with the fucking Gristedes ever.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite, though it isn't close to me anymore, is a Shell station owned by two guys from Pakistan and staffed by an assortment of relatives. I've been shopping there since I was about 11, so I actively avoid buying vice items from them.

They're staffed by an assortment of relatives who seem to be branching out - people who've worked there now own a half-dozen convenience stores around town.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Okay, last night I bro'd out with the cranky jabba-the-hut guy at the shop by asking about his insanely loud Yemeni music, which I actually like. He told me all about the singer, how many wives he had, and offered to burn me a copy. A small victory.

― andy --, Thursday, 23 February 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Hah! As soon as I read the thread title and saw the mention of Yemen, I thought, "Oakland!" What's that stuff they do, I think it's called "khaat" or something?

― viborgu, Friday, 24 February 2006 05:25 (twenty years ago)

My local milkbar is great, the young chinese couple have run it for ages, they now have a little girl about 4 and she's cute, always pottering around the shop (which they live in back of, which seems fairly common for Aussie milkbars). I love going in there at teatime, the shop smells of jasmine rice cooking on the stove.

They know everything we buy, so I just go to the counter and he says "PJ super 30?" and hands me my smokes.

I wanted to give him a xmas card but in my shame, after all these years I still don't know his name :/

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 24 February 2006 05:57 (twenty years ago)

The stuff the Yemeni shopkeepers chew is called "bhaat" I think. I asked a clerk to try some and he said "You couldn't handle it." His eyes were totally bloodshot.

There's actually a Yemeni Grocers Association in Oakland. They were in the news recently when those black muslim dudes wrecked the liquor stores.

― andy --, Friday, 24 February 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm wrong, you're right, it's called Khat or Qat:
http://www.geocities.com/forceps1974/khat.html

― andy --, Friday, 24 February 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Holy Shit I want to try it: "In humans, it is a stimulant producing a feeling of exaltation, a feeling of being liberated from space and time.
It may produce extreme loquacity, inane laughing, and eventually semicoma. Up to 80% of the adult population of Yemen use Khat(3)."

― andy --, Friday, 24 February 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

There used to be or still is a khat tree in Golden Gate Park of khat. During the first Gulf War it was on the news about how people were trying to pick some of it so they removed the plaque naming the tree. They probably cut it down by now.

― svend (svend), Friday, 24 February 2006 17:37 (twenty years ago)

err - "of khat"

― svend (svend), Friday, 24 February 2006 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I really need to be liberated from space and time right now.

This old hippy lady I used to work with claimed that used to be a coca plant in the Conservatory of Flowers in GG Park, in the mid-60's. It got picked down to nothing and finally they pulled it up.

― andy --, Friday, 24 February 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

i used to have the option of the latina store, the korean store ("kaplan's"), or the ethiopian store. it was weird how much the prices varied.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 24 February 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

mine is run by italians (like third-generation americans I'm sure). I have no idea how they make money, a disproportionate amount of shelf space is devoted to really inexpensive spices.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Wakim, who owns the liquor store at the end of my block is very balding, fretful, extremely polite Palestinian in his late 50'/early 60's who lives on the Peninsula 'cause he can't afford the city. His kids are totally Americanized and have no interest in helping him at his shop leaving him and the elderly black guy who helps stock and clean as the only employees. The store has lots of bad wine, some OK beer, snack food, canned goods, some obvious home supplies like light bulbs and dish soap, all on four narrow, highly stacked aisles.

Wakim always wears a sport jacket and speaks rather good 'proper' English and the way he sometimes stares out the window, lost in his own thoughts, and sighs makes me wonder about his past.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

More than a few Middle Eastern mini-grocers I've met are sort of mysteriously thoughtful people... Like they left something behind when they came to the America that still bothers them. Or: "Is this really what I wanted?" There's an Ethiopian bar in Oakland called Red Sea and I sat and talked with a Yemeni grocer for a long time one night, drinking Johnny Red. He wore a dagger! He seemed lost in his thoughts but we bro'd out as much as we could considering our completely different lifestyles.

― andy --, Friday, 24 February 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

I get the impression Wakim has a degree. I also get the impression that it hasn't done him much good here and that it probably wouldn't have at home.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 24 February 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

"I have no idea how they make money, a disproportionate amount of shelf space is devoted to really inexpensive spices...."

I've been thinking about collecting vintage spices because so many of these shops have really, really fucking old dusty spice bottles or 1970's taco seasoning packets. Also, 30 year old lemon extract and the like.

― andy --, Friday, 24 February 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

eighteen years pass...

I just noticed - and I'm not sure when it happened - but none of the liquor stores around here stock dirty magazines anymore

video killed the magazine star, I guess

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 24 October 2024 21:34 (one year ago)

Mine got a major upgrade during covid… name change but same owner, his kids who helped in the store as teens are now adults. It will always be Telegraph Quality Market to me. The other day there was an awkward moment when one of the neighborhood drunks was sitting in the doorway in his wheelchair, and a customer in a wheelchair was trying to exit.

― sarahell, Friday, 25 October 2024 00:26 (one year ago)

whoa, twenty year old Scott Seward post upthread

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 25 October 2024 00:30 (one year ago)

One of the two shops mostly equidistant from my house used to be run by a surly korean dude, but a couple years ago some enterprising middle eastern guys really cleaned it up, it's much better now, and pretty cheap: I can get a 22 oz bottle of Guinness for $3.70 out the door, and the price has stayed constant for a year

No porn mags, but they do sell pretty big nitrous oxide tanks as well as old-school Whip-It's

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 25 October 2024 00:34 (one year ago)

@sarahell - I know that market, it is a lot nicer now

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 25 October 2024 00:42 (one year ago)

Aww sarahell i used to go to that store a lot pre pandemic! After shopping at econo jam mainly

― brimstead, Friday, 25 October 2024 01:47 (one year ago)

shout out to the whole crew at Super USA

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 October 2024 13:08 (one year ago)

As far as I know, the corner store near me is called KRATOM, CBD, THC

― Heez, Friday, 25 October 2024 13:29 (one year ago)

So I feel weird bringing my kids but the candy section is top tier

― Heez, Friday, 25 October 2024 13:31 (one year ago)

oh yeah, the 'glass shops' pop up like mushrooms, I have two just a couple blocks away.. one of the them sells bongs and pipes but also toilet paper and some snacks

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 25 October 2024 16:55 (one year ago)

My favorite corner store of all time was actually in my work building. Like this is a building for federal workers and they were selling condoms and smokes.

― Heez, Friday, 25 October 2024 17:41 (one year ago)

oh yeah, the 'glass shops' pop up like mushrooms, I have two just a couple blocks away.. one of the them sells bongs and pipes but also toilet paper and some snacks

There’s one here that opened about a year ago called Vulcan, a week ago I noticed it is now “Chubby Up” … they seem to distinguish themselves by having super bright lighting. … like brighter than a CVS even.

― sarahell, Wednesday, 30 October 2024 15:39 (one year ago)

I hate the corner store

― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 16:47 (one year ago)

In the town where I live, going from closest to my place to furthest away:

a convenience store that according to the sign on the door is supposed to be open from 7am Monday to Saturday and from 8am on Sunday, but always seems to open a quarter of an hour after those times. Frequently I'll pass by and there'll be people outside waiting for someone to open the shutters. It's the second biggest convenience store in the town though, so people put up with it. Everyone who works in there seems disinterested at best, outright grumpy at worst.
a convenience store that does a lot of business because it's closest to the petrol station but doesn't charge the same inflated prices. Run by three chill guys.
aforementioned petrol station. You'd think a petrol station would be open at 6am on a Saturday? Not this one. My only explanation for why they get away with this is because the next nearest petrol station is nearly two miles away, so people just have to suck it up.
a WH Smiths, which I never go into because I'm not getting age checked for a £3 can of Red Bull. The only place more expensive than a WH Smiths is a WH Smiths in a train station.
newsagents in the centre of town. The staff are low key chill one week and then the same people are looking at me like I'm a shoplifter the next week.
newsagents towards the edge of town (sounds like a Springsteen album). This one sells top shelf magazines and (around this time of year anyway) fireworks. A real traditional newsagents as well - like there'll be a child's bike for sale in the window. And I don't mean a card saying 'child's bike for sale', I mean the actual bike. Slightly scummy mid 90s vibe but oddly this newsagents is in the expensive end of town. Somehow they're open from 5am and some days doesn't close until 11pm.
a convenience store that's so far from my place that I never go there, despite it being the biggest one in town. Like the first store on this list, also seems to open later than advertised, but they're open from 8am until 10pm seven days a week.

― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 18:56 (one year ago)

I love corner stores. I think about them a lot. Since I left my childhood home, I have lived in 17 diff apartments and had 17 diff corner stores. I've had a friendly relationship with every one of those cornershop guys and some sparked very meaningful convos. My current corner store guy told me tonight he hopes Trump wins that's a whole other story but I've enjoyed knowing all of them and think about this quite often.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 19:31 (one year ago)

I wish I'd taken pics of all of them. I'd make some kind of art project out of it.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 19:31 (one year ago)

the majority of corner stores here in Oakland are operated by Yemeni-Americans.. mine is

https://sabagrocers.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-02-at-9.32.49-AM-2048x1159.png

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 30 October 2024 19:49 (one year ago)

My corner store is a newsagent/sweetshop and an Asian shop next door to one another but it’s really the around-the-corner shop in a small parade where there’s a launderette, a little builders’ caff and a barbershop. Guy who owns both shops is a Gujerati Muslim; his employee in the Asian shop is Bangladeshi. Bossman has in the past allowed me to store my frozen goods in his deep freeze while my own freezer defrosts. Because I usually pass by there while walking Widget, I don’t get to go in so much. The newsagent has penny sweets and ice lollies, while the Asian shop has good spices at good prices, but not very good produce.

― guillotine vogue (suzy), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 19:58 (one year ago)

I dont think I've ever seen the same person working twice at the corner store , they must have daily turnover. And teh food is so expensive there, they make money on candy not gasoline I am told. its a BIG APPLE so not so quaint.

― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 20:14 (one year ago)

the bong/convenience stores that pop up around here are all terrible and gross. i'm a big fan of corner stores so it makes me grumpy when i go in one of these places. they basically exist to sell lottery tickets/pipe tobacco/nitrous oxide. they don't have any money to stock their stores/fix them up. they remind me of the one guy i worked for in philly who would go to drug stores/grocery club stores and load up on cheap toiletries/toothpaste/etc and then mark them up triple. the freezers leak. it always smells like water-stains in these joints. the Korean-owned stores in Philly were so awesome and clean and filled with everything you could ever need. same with any self-respecting bodega. these stores/spaces around here are just bought up on the cheap by would-be moguls who can't have one decent store so they feel like they should have a dozen shitty ones. plus, fuck crack pipes. and gross poison kratom and synthetic weed.
having said that, the one-step-above-a-gross-dollar-store drug store chains around here are almost as shitty. dirty. overpriced. 10,000 square foot spaces run by one stunned 16 year old at night. venture capital blows.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 October 2024 20:18 (one year ago)

The weirdest one I ever had was Midnight Convenience in Union Sq, Somerville, MA. Midnight Convenience closed at 11pm and had blue swinging saloon style doors in the back with a sign that said "Adults Only - 18+." One night my best friend and I decided to be brave and explore the back room. We were high and this was during the middle of a blizzard. It seemed like the right time. It was a full on library of thousands of vintage porno mags from the 1950s to present. Never seen anything like it. There had to have been collectors' issues in there. I was fascinated and we could have stayed for hours but instead hightailed it put of there as soon as someone else came in.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 21:19 (one year ago)

omg

April 2021
I went here many times in the 1990s to buy used magazines which were kept in a large back room. Since EBay and Craigslist came around, the owner stopped selling them, according to the person who answered the phone today

Craig gave it 2 stars.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 21:26 (one year ago)

"used porn" is a decent band name, adding that to the list

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 30 October 2024 23:01 (one year ago)

Vintage sounds so much better than used in this context. Blech.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 31 October 2024 00:05 (one year ago)

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S09E22/976574.jpg

― The Yellow Kid, Thursday, 31 October 2024 00:32 (one year ago)

we had a bookstore here that had pron and it was interesting because it was such an unexpected place to find it - they also sold lots of candles and soap and also have a children's toy section , like Pottery Barn or soemthing

― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 October 2024 15:30 (one year ago)

three weeks pass...

Needed ham for raclette and most shops nearby being halal or kosher I thought I'd give the local polski sklep a go.

They did not have ham but did have some pierogi that I was given for free as they were past sell by date (will have to investigate by how much).

More surprising though was the rack of English language books, including a Michael Chabon.

― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 23 November 2024 11:38 (one year ago)

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