Good-bye Winn Dixie

[tinhuviel]

Aunt Tudi and I went to Winn Dixie for the last time today. I can't believe all the stores are closing. WD was the store of choice in my childhood. That's the only store we ever went to in Asheville. Well, occasionally we'd go to Giant, but mostly it was Winn Dixie all the way. It was from Winn Dixie I got my first pack of Space Dust (pre- Pop Rocks candy). It's very sad to see the end of an era like this. I think that's why mortality isn't such a bad thing. By the time a person reaches death, most of the time s/he is ready for it, because the world has changed so much, it's pretty much unbearable to live in it. Of course, I'm speaking from the perspective of someone who despises change.

It looks like I'm gonna make it for Battlestar Galactica. Afterward, I plan on curling up in a menstrual ball and crying myself to sleep. Bad Sith...no bone.

Comments

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

hopefully yours won't turn into a Piggly Wiggly like some have... ::twitches as she remembers the P-W in Hartsville::

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Piggly Wiggly didn't last very long here. It came, it saw, it died.

[insanity-speaks.livejournal.com]

And you know, it's because of Winn Dixie that Dave Matthews was in a major motion picture release (although he is also in Where the Red Fern Grows..but I'm not obsessed or anything)

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Yes, I would go into WD and drool all over the standup they had to advertise the movie because it had a picture of Dave on it.

BTW....write to me (email addy on userinfo). I want to proposition you.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Change sucks, dunnit?

[anomali.livejournal.com]

Gads...I remember Winn Dixies from eons ago (in Alabama).It was the end of an era in the Midwest when all the Safeways closed. I have atomic fireball and firestix memories of the Safeway across from my jr hi where all the "bad" kids (read: only ones who were nice to me) used to hang out and smoke when I was in 8th and 9th grade.

Like Bertrand Russell said: "Change is one thing; progress is another."

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

I think we're all progressing toward ultimate destruction. At least I hope so.

[ravien.livejournal.com]

Ha! I was there today too. I bought what was left of their baby section :)

[green-goblin70.livejournal.com]

When you don't eat vegtables like me, how can you not miss a store calling itself, "The Beef people"?

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

True dat.

[bayberrybush.livejournal.com]

Nooooo! I am sorry to see Winn-Dixie go. :(

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

End of an era, babes.