Store

It was a large store and I did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight on distant ice.

~ Chaim Potok

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One afternoon I was sitting in the backyard watching and listening to the birds. Suddenly, I heard someone yell, "WHAT MAKES ME LOOK LIKE I WORK IN INGLES?!" The someone was Leslie. This would be a different kind of story if the someone was someone who worked at Ingles. Anyway, apparently while she was at the store a woman asked her, "Do I want mild or medium salsa?" Then another woman asked her where the pickled okra was.

Leslie said (to me, not to the okra lady), "I mean... I don't even have a pleasant disposition!"