Over the weekend I went thrift shopping with a friend; we looked up all the independent thrift stores in my area and made them a priority over the usual Goodwill & Value Village/Savers stops.

The last store we went to HAD to have been some sort of money-laundering front. Not only did they have some of the weirdest things I've ever seen, there was no organization AT ALL, and the clerk spent the entire time we were there outside smoking. But the weirdest things: they had a small grocery side room with the sign "Discount Produce", there was the constant sound of a buzz saw coming from the back of that room, and outside the store there were plastic tubs holding wrapped packages of ground turkey. Outside. In the hot weather and direct sun.

For those on the other social medias, yes, that's the thrift store where I found the terrifying doll.

(I kinda want to go back and get her to give to a friend, but TBH I'm not sure I want to set foot in that store again. It was a little too weird, even for me.)

I constantly mix up things like that or come up with new names for things.

For example, we call the PBS show Miss Scarlet and the Duke “Peacock”. Which I think was some combination of the peacock blue color that she wears in the promo materials along with the Miss Scarlet association with Clue. (I literally had to stop and think to come up with the actual correct name.)

Yeah that’s a back away slowly kind of place I think.

No thank you.

Okay, I want to visit this place.