f r e s h s t a r t

Monday, March 28, 2005

 

Already sold all three
My parents, two younger sisters and I went to visit one of my grandmothers for Easter this past weekend. Grandma N lives in the upper peninsula of Michigan, in an area that is still quite rural. The population peaked in the 50's and 60's when an Air Force base was functioning in the area, but that closed in the 70's. She was a farmer's daughter and a farmer herself, but now lives in town.
Anyway, on Saturday morning my dad walked over to the gas station to buy a paper, and returned laughing.
"I asked for a newspaper, and they told me that they had already sold all three copies. They suggested that I check the co-op (the grocery store), and the new restaurant. No luck."
We drove to the next town over and found a good five or ten copies of the Detroit Free Press for sale at their gas station. Victory.

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