This afternoon I made a new friend. See above picture. This lovely lady always seems to be sitting in the same place near the Coal Harbor entrance to Stanley Park. So I sidled up beside her and my friend Beth took our picture.
One of the highlights of the day however was finding this stuff. Some of you may remember The Pop Shoppe. When I was a little girl with long blonde hair in pigtails, my dad used to take me with him to The Pop Shoppe. He would get me up on his shoulders while he pushed the cart around this warehouse full of cases of every flavor of pop you could imagine. I would exercise my leadership skills and choose the pop we should have from my 6 foot vantage point. My favorite, by far, was Black Cherry. Today while walking down Denman I noticed a sign that said, "Pop Shoppe available here." No way. I walk in and ask, "do you have Black Cherry?" "yes. it's in the top case." I squeal quietly with delight and then look at the man and say, "I think you're my new best friend." he smiles and says, "that'll be $4.24." I happily hand it over and take my pop. Fortunately Beth didn't have to put me on her shoulders to facilitate pop selection.
3 comments:
"4.24, por favor."
i like that you used the word "sidled."
that's right. he did say por favor!! I forgot that part!
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