"Remember when this place used to be a mall?" I asked Heidi as we entered Target this afternoon. "I kind of liked it better then."
She laughed and nodded because I ask her that question a lot when we shop there. And when I don't ask, I'm still thinking about it. I can't walk in the door to that place without remembering it used to be something else.
Today we explored the nostalgia a little more than usual. The Starbucks used to be a shoe store; there was a movie theater in the linen department and another one back by the garden shop. "Wasn't there a play place, too?" Heidi asked.
There was. I used to take my nephew Riley there all the time when he was little. He's 20 now.
In fact, it's been so long since the place was reconstructed that the store itself has actually been renovated.
"Remember when they used to have the Christmas decorations over there?" I asked Heidi. "I kind of liked it better then."
She was good enough not to roll her eyes.
She laughed and nodded because I ask her that question a lot when we shop there. And when I don't ask, I'm still thinking about it. I can't walk in the door to that place without remembering it used to be something else.
Today we explored the nostalgia a little more than usual. The Starbucks used to be a shoe store; there was a movie theater in the linen department and another one back by the garden shop. "Wasn't there a play place, too?" Heidi asked.
There was. I used to take my nephew Riley there all the time when he was little. He's 20 now.
In fact, it's been so long since the place was reconstructed that the store itself has actually been renovated.
"Remember when they used to have the Christmas decorations over there?" I asked Heidi. "I kind of liked it better then."
She was good enough not to roll her eyes.
The humor of repetition :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mike. This one makes me laugh a little, too.
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