If you find this one very confusing, try another on for size.
In Brownsville, PA there is a place called Elmo’s.
Elmo’s specializes (if ‘specialize’ is even the right word) in: computers, firearms, alcohol, coffee, pizza and subs.
This is the only place I know of in which a person can purchase a motherboard, a nine millimeter, a beer, an espresso, a pepperoni and sausage pie and a foot long ham and cheese without ever having to leave the confines of the store, which interestingly enough is located in a rather old converted synagogue.
Over at the Marshalls Mall in Portsmouth, NH there was a rather interesting pair of stores right next to each other
Pet Emporium; a high end Aquarium and pet store, with a major high tech filtration system, second only to the Boston Aquarium museum, i was one of the rare regular customers they took into the back room to show off their hi-tech system, UV sterilizers, protein skimmers, live rock, etc… quite impressive
the store right next to it?
Taipei & Tokyo, a Sushi bar
and yes, the sushi was excellent, very fresh (no, it didn’t come from Pet Emporium, don’t ask silly questions)
There’s a bar in town that offers “Expert Tax Service.” That always seemed like a logical combo. In a little strip mall here, a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop was next to a workout parlor, and you’d always see at least one freshly showered person with a gym bag buying ice cream in the B-R. Now a pizza pub has taken over both stores.
drewbert’s example of office services and tanning beds reminded me of a thread that asked if one could get a tan while making photocopies of one’s nether parts.
There is a business in town that sells pool supplies and does dry cleaning. Even better than that is a dry cleaner that is also a gun shop. There was an article in the local paper a while ago about how strange these dry cleaning businesses are.
LOL I have eaten there, when Mr Aru was stationed at the shipyard for a refit on the Miami=)
They think I am absolutely nuts there…whenever we would go there [usually 2 times a week for about 14 months] I would ask for the same things - egg sushi, tuna sushi, salmon sushi and shrimp sushi…and NO seaweed tying it together [i detest the seaweed, tastes nasty and the texture offends me for some strange reason=(] The sushi guys would make it, but they always glared and muttered…
I want to go back for some BBQ at the place downtown…nothing like live music and great ribs=) they also make killer poppers, and deep fried artichoke hearts=)
If you think buying cashews at an auto parts store is strange, try selling them. Every Tuesday when the truck delivers the weeks parts, there are always cashews. They are good nuts. Full, solid, not to salty.
You should try some.
There’s a swimming pool supply store near here that only sells pool supplies 9 months out of the year.
From September through December, the store sells Christmas trees and decorations.
I always get a kick out of our post office. It’s a smallish brick building that houses the…
Post Office
Police Station
Town Hall
and…
Liquor Store
Okay everyone, lets play a little game. [sesame st] One of these things is not like the other ones. Not like the other ones. Not like the other ones. [/sesame st]
