Civilization Finally May Be Coming To My Town

[Liberalynn]

or Santa may truly exist! :rofl:

A home improvement store closed last year, and they are turning it into several separate units to rent to chain stores.

I have been hoping against hope that one would be a Borders or a Barnes and Noble. We have no bookstores other than one "used" seller here who doesn't have much of a selection. We have always had to travel 43 minutes to get to a Borders or Barnes and Noble, and its too far for me to attend their author events etc.

I said to my Mom, as we were getting out of our car to go into the new "Bed, Bath, and Beyond," that "I wish a book store would come!," The woman next to us getting out of her car, said "I heard that two more stores are going to start moving in soon, and its reported that one of them is Borders so I guess Christmas just came early for you." The other I guess is "Old Navy."

I felt like doing a happy dance. I am a reading -aholic and this has been my main wish for a long time and now its looks like it may come true.

Now I just need an "Outback Steakhouse" or a "Red Lobster" and I'm set.

[redqueen]

1. Sure you don't want an "Olive Garden"?

[Liberalynn]

2. Nah!

We don't need an Olive Garden here. ;)

[TrogL]

20. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN OLIVE GARDEN

I don't know why I have to keep re-explaining this. It's really very simple.

Olives grow on trees. Trees grow in orchards.

Some trees also grow in gardens, however, olive trees require soil so acidic that nothing else will grow there, making it a very lonely "garden" indeed, hence, the orchard.

[redqueen]

21. Maybe they mean just a big yard full of olives.

You know, like a rock garden, only with olives.

:shrug:

[SallyMander]

3. This thread has the potential to require

:popcorn:

[Gonzo Gardener]

8. Pass the salt.

:popcorn:

[DS1]

4. Bed, Bath and Beyond encourages water waste. Borders uses valuable trees

to sell their Bill O'Reilly books. Old Navy is ageist and anti-aquatic. Outback Steakhouse disallows breastfeeding. Red Lobster is a right-wing front.


Love,
Your pals from GD

[Liberalynn]

12. Wow all that!

I never knew. ;)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Book stores are a mixed blessing...

I grew up in a place 30-45 minutes from the nearest Borders or Barnes and Noble. So I was always far away. But on the other hand, going to the book store was always a special treat.

Now I live in a place with a Borders 5 minutes from my house, and a Barnes and Noble 5 minutes from my office. It's great that I get to go on my lunch break to browse the selection. But it has lost a little bit of its "specialness".

[Liberalynn]

13. It has been a treat when I've gotten to go to the bigger bookstores

for the newer selections and it did as you say make it kind of special.

One of the reasons it being closer to me is a good thing, is I won't have to count on other people to get me there. I am a white knuckle driver and the current Barnes and Noble and Borders are both located in major traffic areas.

Our little city is much easier to nagivigate on my own.

[SteppingRazor]

6. I see. So you'd prefer your local, hardworking used bookseller to go out of business...

so that yet another corporofascist enterprise can thrive. Maybe you can read your Borders-purchased book at the Starbucks while the employees of your local coffee house watch the tumbleweeds blow by.

Philistine.

:evilgrin:

[Liberalynn]

15. Well

I think the used book store will probably survive. There are always people looking for a deal and out of print books. We do have a Starbucks and so far more people still go to the local ones. I don't really care for Starbucks myself any way. I think their coffee is kind of gross actually, and I enjoy coffe. Panera Bread is actually kicking their butt here.

You have to understand this is a city that only used to offer two places to shop: Wally World (ick) and the Grocery store. We have a Pennys but it is only a mini Pennys. The local business are mostly arts,crafts,bagels, and really expensive impractical clothes, pizza shops, and bagel stores, and like six Italian Restuarants, and one good Chineese Restuarant, and one over priced Mexican restuarant. The rest are just fast food places like Mickey D's and Pondergrossa.
;) :rofl:

[trof]

7. You're getting a Starbucks?

A hip young friend tells me that you can tell when a neighborhood is definitely going 'upscale'.
They get a Starbucks.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. Actually, in the City of Palm Beach, Starbucks was deemed too "low-class"

I kid you not. All the old money got their diamond crusted panties in a bundle when Starbucks was planning on moving into a place on Worth Avenue.

[Liberalynn]

16. Starbucks just came in here about six months ago

but it really doesn't seem to be be taking off that well. Hardly any cars in their parking lot or in their drive through.

Panera Bread and Tim Horton's seem to be doing better.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Yes, it's the four horsemen of civilization.

Borders, Outback, Barnes and Noble, and Red Lobster.

[Liberalynn]

17. LOL

[madinmaryland]

10. RetroLounge is moving his bookstore to your town?

:woohoo:

[Liberalynn]

18. That would be good!

I love bookstores! The more the better!

[Pierre.Suave]

14. do you not have a...

Library?

[Liberalynn]

19. We do have a library

but its kind of a small one and sometimes you have to go on very long waiting lists if you want to read the newer selections. They usually only buy 1 or 2 copies. I know I should be able to wait, but I really am addicted to books.

Its not too bad a vice, I think. I don't smoke, I don't drink, I just love to read. LOL.

I do donate my used books to the Library sale they have every summer, shop that same sale, and usually give them another donation during the year. So I do support them. I just want a new bookstore too.

Also while the library and local arts council have some author events and some writer workshops they don't have that many and I am hoping with a Borders coming there might be more.