My Crazy Neighborhood Pt. 4
You’re probably thinking I don’t have any more good material for my tour of the crazy stuff in my neighborhood. You’d be wrong. There’s a whole lotta crazy going on around here. Today I want to show you the Irving Variety store. It’s a cluttered mess of a place filled with cheap crap nobody in their right mind would buy. How this place is still in business, I’ll never know. Apparently there are a lot of people nearby who aren’t in their right mind.
This is what you see when walking past the store on the sidewalk. This is the window to the left of the door. You can see they really live up to the “variety” part of “Irving Variety”. You can get yellow police tape, a hula hoop, and a backpack that has wheels and a retractable handle. Um…I thought backpacks were called backpacks because they are worn on your back.
This is the window to the right of the door. When you look in this window, it seems like the store is in the middle of being robbed — the thieves are dumping all the merchandise close to the door so they can carry it out. Don’t call the police. In fact, this is the way this window has looked for at least the last 8 years. I think the rack of watch batteries has been sitting in the sun for twice that long. If watch batteries were collectible, that rack would be worth a TON of money. However, watch batteries are not collectible, so this is just a rack filled with dead watch batteries in packaging that has been bleached by the sun. My favorite part of this window is the big orange “School Supplies” sign that’s been partially obscured by the clutter. Since when did a dish drying rack and an anti-grease spatter thing become school supplies? School must have changed a lot since I graduated.
September 16th, 2005 at 12:28 am
I’m not even sure if they’re called backpacks here anymore since a lot of primary (elementary) school students here have that sort of schoolbag now, just… more colorful and kiddish looking. I don’t think it carries over to secondary (middle and high school).
I was going to say it didn’t make sense to see that over there because elementary as I recall (until 3rd grade at least)… the load was never that bad, was it? — Then again… looking at the “School Supplies” section… what are they teaching in your schools now? Well you seem confused as well so… must have been a drastic change in syllabus (in oppose to how it is here… where the syllabus Never changes). — And don’t you have lockers in middle and high school? What do you need luggage styled school bags for?
Then I find this:
While looking for the name of these rolling bags if they had a name here (vague memory of “Polypac” commercial, not sure if that’s right), I stumble across: http://www.promoteot.org/AI_BackpackAwareness.html (National School Backpack Awareness Day, by the AOTA)