Wed 14 May 2008
I have to say that when I started blogging, I did not foresee the day that I would write an entire long post about a visit to the dentist. But here I am, writing my second dental post of the week. I think I’m just really boring right now. Sorry.
When I was a little girl, I would flip through Best Department Store catalogs frothing at the mouth for the toy section. Then, looking at all the pictures of all the great toys, I’d imagine which toy I’d select if a fairy godmother appeared and told me I can have any toy on a page, and then I’d imagine how I’d play with the toy and make my neighbors and cousins jealous. Sometimes I’d accidentally land on a furniture or bedding section while searching for the toy section, and I’d make a face and quickly turn past those photos, thinking, “Who’d LOOK at this stuff?!” I could not imagine that I would one day not only love going through Bed, Bath & Beyond flyers getting decorating ideas and wistfully wishing for various expensive furnishing items in them, but I’d share my oral cavity events with strangers on the internet.
I love BEST! What ever happened to those stores. And where is GEMCO?
ha ha! …it’s nice to know you CAN have a good dental visit. I hate the dentist, so maybe your posts will encourage me to visit mine more, ha
I don’t recall Best. I remeber the BIG JCPenny catelog, tho. My Mom would have us cut out pictures of what we wanted for Christmas and paste them on our Santa letter.
Vicky – I think Best and Gemco went away to the same place that Zody’s went. 🙁 Swallowed up by the larger corporations. I think Gemco became a Fedco, and Fedco gave way to 99 Ranch Market.
k – according to Andy, if I’d seen a dentist more regularly or at least flossed more, I’d have saved myself a lot of grief. I’m all about prevention, so I ought to start applying that to dental hygiene, too.
busykitty – I think Best may have gone away before you were old enough to know about it. It was a GIANT department store that had EVERYTHING. Does Penney’s still HAVE store inventory catalogs? I’ve only seen flyers/mailers in my adulthood.
I think they do, but you have to pick it up from customer service.