Shoe Salesman I have a friend who works in a shoe store. He’s worked there for over ten years. When he started he thought it would only be a part time job. A lot of big bookstores are closing. For obvious reasons. A lot of retail is in trouble. But bookstores even more so […]
Pending Retail Apocalypse
Who Invented Bowling? Bowling is a weird sport. A friend called and invited me to go bowling with him and a couple other friends. I hadn’t gone bowling in a while so I figured what the hey. The bowling alley was in a mall. I hadn’t been to a mall in a while […]
Slowly Then All At Once
Wandering Home From Somewhere I was walking home from somewhere a couple of weeks ago I passed by this old stripmall. All of the businesses in this old stripmall had gone out of business at least a year ago so the place is essentially vacant. There was just one ginormous tree in the parking […]