All my life I've walked to the store. Always. When I was little and we lived in Georgia, I went to the Oakland Park Shopping Center and my favorite stores were the Piggly Wiggly, an ice cream shop, a five and dime store and the pharmacy where the comic book rack lived.
My mom trusted me to go places as long as there was a sister or two along and she even let me walk to Miller's Department Store the August I was nine so I could buy some t-shirts. I picked one out and it was my favorite all summer and fall.
I was buying french fries at the Piggly Wiggly when two hippies came by. I know they were hippies because they had long hair and one of them had a fringe jacket.
One of the guys smirked at me and said, "Right on!" I only figured out why years later. My t-shirt had Cheech & Chong's Big Bamboo rolling papers on the front.
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