True story. Years ago a friend was travelling around the small towns of Newfoundland and he needed to buy something at a corner store. I forget exactly what it was, but it was something finicky but practical, like Crazy Glue. So he goes into the only corner store in town (and for some distance) and asks for Crazy Glue. The store owner explains that he used to carry it but no longer does because people kept buying it and then he’d have to re-order and that was annoying so he stopped carrying it.
I think that store owner now runs Parks Canada, where the solution to overflowing garbage cans is to remove the garbage cans.
Blork 16:22 on 2024-04-26 Permalink
True story. Years ago a friend was travelling around the small towns of Newfoundland and he needed to buy something at a corner store. I forget exactly what it was, but it was something finicky but practical, like Crazy Glue. So he goes into the only corner store in town (and for some distance) and asks for Crazy Glue. The store owner explains that he used to carry it but no longer does because people kept buying it and then he’d have to re-order and that was annoying so he stopped carrying it.
I think that store owner now runs Parks Canada, where the solution to overflowing garbage cans is to remove the garbage cans.
It looks like maybe he retired last week.