From Here to There and Back Again

Used to be that a salesman would travel from street to street and city to city to sell his wares.  Whether it was vacuum cleaners, or pots and pans, knives, encyclopedias, brushes and cleaning supplies or insurance.  Those items moved into local family stores, and then to department stores, and then to discount big box stores.  That forced the little guys to close because of the lack of business and the high rents and usually little or no free parking.  Now the trend is returning to have those items that we cannot get any longer, locally, be trucked in.

I used to go with my wife to the fabric store for patterns, material and other sewing supplies.  One by one the stores closed.  We would have to go to a store in the next town (if they are still there) to buy the same stuff.  Recently, I read that knitting supplies and other sewing notions were traveling around selling their wares ala "food truck" style.  Auto parts are also on the move.  Won't be long before these mobile stores, which have little or no overhead, will be the norm to replace those little ma and pop stores that were forced out.  I'll even be able to buy onesie screws and washers rather than the plastic bubble packs at the local Big Box...What a strange place we live in...

"Recently, while I was on a shopping trip in a department store, I heard a little five-year-old talking to his mother on the down escalator. He said, 'Mommy, what do they do when the basement gets full of steps?'"

--Hal Linden

Wife/Husband Text Exchange...
A wife, being the romantic sort, sent her husband a text: “If you are sleeping, send me your dreams. If you are laughing, send me your smile. If you are eating, send me a bite. If you are drinking send me a sip. If you are crying, send me your tears. I love you!

The husband, typically non-romantic, replied, “I am on the commode. Please advise."

What is Kitty?
A three-year-old boy went with his dad to see a new litter of kittens.

On returning home, he breathlessly informed his mother, "There were two boy kittens and two girl kittens."

"How did you know that?" his mother asked.

"Daddy picked them up and looked underneath," he replied. "I think it's printed on the bottom."