I only *wish* these were from our own trees but they just came from the grocery store.
BTW, Judy and I had a conversation last night about terminology.
I said that for modern generations that have come long after us, the expression is "I got them from the grocery store," or "I got them at Safeway. Or Fry's. Or Wal-Mart."
Because they have grown up with all of those choices.
But for people like Judy and I, who grew up in very small towns, there's a difference.
We say "I got them from the store!"
We grew up in towns where there was only *one* store to buy groceries.
How about you?
What do you say?
I usually name the shop they came from, not that we have a huge choice here. It is only either Co-op or Tesco!
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DeleteI still use Store. Growing up in Mesa that meant Basha’s or AJ Bayless.
ReplyDeleteThere was a Basha's up here for awhile. I wish they'd come back.
Deletewe were a one food, one bakery, one hardware, and one clothing store for many of my younger years. Then Sears & Roebuck, Monkey Wards, Ace, and A & P came into town and changed all that.
ReplyDeleteLet me help my friend, Timmer, explain for my foreign friends: Monkey Wards was a slang term for the chain store Montgomery Ward's.
DeleteThe smallish town of Bend when I grew up was 8-10K people, over 15 years. We had one chain I remember, Piggly Wiggly s (sp?), but several neighborhood stores, ours was Angels, a block away. We ran a tab there, paid once a week.
ReplyDeleteBend was a metropolis compared to my town. Our population ranged between 1,100 and 1,500! I think Judy's was smaller.
DeleteI will say what store...in our case Kroger or sometimes Aldi's if we want to make the drive. We do have Walmart in our nearest town but we rarely shop there, especially for groceries.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a very small town, Manassas, VA, which back then had about 2000 people. In 2022, it was over 42,000. So glad I moved in 1974! By then it had jumped to about 12000 but was ballooning like crazy as the town annexed more and more land.
From the store. No one needs to know where I shop! LOL
ReplyDeleteI say store and you know why. I can't believe that all those rinky dink little towns with their "store" are now gone.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid we didn't have lemons or limes. As we got older they usually came from someone as a gift. Older still, we grow a few or they come from the neighbors tree. tc and lana
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