Remember that night we went for a drive plus#
Remember that night we went for a drive free#
Remember that night we went for a drive mac#

But oh the grief as we drove north on France, lo those years ago. Online searches led me to a device that would mount the memory chips, and I was able to extract the work in its entirety. This was before they built the standalone Starbucks, notable for an incident in 2016 in which someone bumped her table and knocked her drink into her laptop, frying it, with the total loss of her novel in progress.

Remember that night we went for a drive mac#

Sometimes when we went to McDonald’s and sat by Mac Tonight essaying his stroke-songs we would wander over there, and she delighted herself by banging on the waste bins, and the store became known in our parlance as The Bongo Store. Things you could buy to hold your smaller things. The question is whether they’ll paint over the entirety of the big Whole Foods - which, by the way, was originally the site of an anchor store that sold containers. Good honest artisanal authentic brick, painted over. You don’t see this very often these days. Subsequence developments would not make this mistake, although they didn’t do a great job of it.Īnyway: they’re painting it all gray. It looks good in model form:īy putting the parking lots facing the busy street, they squandered the chance to give the artery some compression, a sense of place. The entire complex is a high-80s piece of suburban design, and generally dreadful. I guess it was the loss of Chuck’s.Īlso noted that they’re painting the bricks. None of these things come to mind when I drive past, or even when I stop at one of the shops, but sometimes, they all do. I can always see just where we fished when I go to drop off my tax documents every year. I also remember that at the time I had a boil, and was due for a lancing. I remember how we played akee-ball, how she mastered the Spider-Stomper, the lone pinball machine I pushed around, the Spongebob themed device that sucked up all your coins, the meretricious dreck you got for your strings of tickets.Īround the corner from the Chuck E’s - and let me note that the day before, Traders Joe played that Rickie Lee Jones song on the speakers, and I don’t like it just as much now as I didn’t like it then - is a man-made lake, and I remember once we went fishing there.

Can’t lament the loss of their food, because it was strenuously dreadful, but I had many a grand night there. I never noticed, because I never cared after it dropped off the list of rotating amusements. It was once a McDonald’s, and at the time it was the jewel of the shopping complex, because it had a Mac Tonight robot.

The Taco Cafe had been a deli, a sandwich joint - not a chain. It’s usually something much more dry, without the crisp fresh clean nullity of iceberg lettuce. The basic American version we all made at home. There was a new Taco Cafe, because all new restaurants around here must be taco joints, all of which are Authentic, none of which ever provide that satisfying mix of spiced ground beef held together by a thick sauce, lettuce, cheddar cheese, tomatoes.

Remember that night we went for a drive free#

Perhaps I get a free ream after 10 years.Īs I drove out of the shopping area, I was struck by many things that accrue in a man’s mind when you live in a place for a long while. If they’d had it, I probably would’ve picked up something else as well, but on the other hand, the conversation at the check-out would’ve involved a request for my status in the Membership Rewards program, and if I was not in The System, a request to be entered in the program, the benefits of which - now that I think of it - have never been explained. “You can order it and they’ll deliver it.” “That might be an online only thing,” said the clerk.

Remember that night we went for a drive plus#

I tried Office Maximum Plus Staples, and they didn’t have any either. Once, there was a bounteous aisle of office supplies, but it’s been reduced to a half-aisle of predictable papers. Daughter wanted some photo transfer paper to make a T-shirt with her own design, so I went to Target.