Convenient Showdown
Riding my bike back from my workout, I thought I’d stop to buy some cereal from the local convenience store. But, as I was about to turn into the parking lot, I realized that both employees manning the store were standing outside the entrance, apparently in the midst of a showdown with a 40-something bear of a man. The thing that struck me most is that the proprietors had this guy facing them as he backed away; he did this until he was out of the parking lot. Then he turned and walked away.
I didn’t purchase the cereal.
Mykala and I like to joke that the intersection of Cleveland and Marshall (where this convenience store is located) is a little half block of Lake Street danger that just leapt over the Mississippi and landed in this safe part of Saint Paul.
Comments
Caley
Are you referring to the Oasis? Cause that place is scary. Their shelves are always spookily (is that a word?) empty, too, like someone just came in and robbed them. Definitely not worth the 10% UST student discount.
Alexander Micek
Verily, yes! How is it so much worse than the Super America just blocks south? A micro socioeconomic puzzle. Plus, the SA has coffee drinks & brats. I’m just sayin’…
Dan McKeown
Fun story about bikes, I broke the pedal off of mine. Quite literally. The bolt that holds the pedal to the…arm?…sheared in half leaving me with a sore leg and an uncomfortable walk home. All that after just fixing the tires on the damned thing.
Alexander Micek
Bikes and cars: if there’s a horrible time for them to fail, they will fail. I hear your pain, Dan — the rain is steadily breaking my bike gearing down into rust. Argh.