Posted by Mike (WA) on July 10, 2013 at 11:11:52 from (69.10.199.42):
In Reply to: Ike Godsey posted by NY 986 on July 10, 2013 at 09:20:05:
We were all more of a "community" then, and the local store was an integral part of it. We're all familiar with the store "carrying" people over a rough patch, but sometimes it went beyond that.
When I was about 6, we had a pounding on the door at about 2 in the morning. It was the 14 year old neighbor girl- "Dad's drunk again- he's after me, and this time he's not taking 'no' for an answer."
She said she had an aunt in California she could go to. While mom found some of my sister's clothes that would fit her, dad called the gas station/store a couple miles away, that was also a Greyhound bus stop. We took her over there, to catch a bus. Mom and Mrs. store owner went around and took stuff off the shelves that she could eat on the bus, and I think dad and Mr. store owner split the price of the bus ticket. They put her up for the rest of the night (they lived in the back), and got her on the bus in the AM. We never heard from her again.
Somehow, I don't see that happening today at the local convenience store.
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