Okay, I know this is totally beyond dorky, but....THIS PLACE IS MY JAM…read more
I lived so close to here at the time, that it was my one-stop shop for all my basic needs. I could stop in when I got gas, or if I was waiting for a prescription I could go drop off my dry-cleaning or get take-out or mail a package, or even get a hair cut in the same tiny shopping strip. It was so convenient to a ton of other shops, maybe I should be raving about the shopping center itself, but no, no, it was the Walgreens that made it for me.
Imagine driving home after a long, long day at work with a 2-hour round trip commute. Exhausted, you remember that you need to pick up some milk on the way. You get to Walgreens, in, out, home. It was just...zenlike in its simplicity.
Plus, you could peek at the seasonal aisle or their garden aisle for cute lawn ornaments.
I would go there for everything, for groceries, for cards, for gifts, meds, cold supplies, it had everything I could possibly want and it was so convenient.
I even got to know some of the staff, who were all really nice. It felt like my own tiny general store right down the street.
It was a pillar of mundane amazing...mundazing, in my short time in Tennessee, and it kept me anchored in my crazy, crazy life.
I never thought I'd feel so strongly about a drug store, but there you have it.