I live near the Maine-New Hampshire border, so we have a lot of “borderline” businesses. Borderline Fuels, Borderline Beverages, Borderline Marriage Counsellors. “Hello, can you sell me some high-quality beverages?” “Nope, sorry. We only sell borderline beverages.”
There used to be a restaurant in New London, Connecticut, called the Hygienic Restaurant. It went out of business, and I can’t imagine why.
When I was growing up, we used to have our septic tank pumped out by Joe Pitts Septic. I went to school with Joe Jr. Poor kid.
about two weeks after the matrix came out, we sent a proposal to… you guessed it “the matrix corp.” i was a bit taken aback. i tried to tell them it wasn’t a good idea.
One fine morning, I exited from a graveyard shift at my previous employer, to see a van parked next to the building. Emblazoned boldly upon its side was the company name, “B&D Plumbing”.
A bus route I rode on also passed an office belonging to S&S Automotive. The thing about their sign though, was the “&” was really very tiny between the letters, so the first time I read “SS Automotive” and did a doubletake.
Here in Sydney, it’s quite common to see “Quality Butchers”. That one’s always tickled me. Another one is in my local shopping mall, Bankstown Square. There’s a nut shop in there called, you guessed it, “Square Nuts”.
A couple from when I was a kid: “Gosford Shoplifters” (a shop refitting co.), and “Alley Barber”.
I was just in Myrtle Beach SC, and driving thru a small town on the way to our house, I saw a five & dime type of place called (swear I’m not making this up ) “Badcock”
As I drive the Leesburg bypass every morning on the way to work I’m guaranteed to pass one of these trucks. There’s a few around, it’s a fairly well-established business.
They’ve been bought out by a larger company, but the trucks carry both the parent name (TECO), and the old local name: People’s Gas
I’d hate to have a job in the production end of the business.
