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Monday, September 22, 2008
Ah, life’s little bumps: My favorite Target is closing
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Life as we know it is getting ready to take a radical turn that may take years before we can assess the true impact.
We’re losing our Target.
I know, I know - a new one is going to open south of I-285 in October, but that means the one about two minutes from our house is going to close.
I’ve been shopping there since it was a Richway, way back into the 70’s. It was a ritual that on weekends home from college I’d go there with my folks’ credit card to reload on detergent, shampoo, etc. Better to get them to foot that bill so I could have more beer money.
And as I grew older and it morphed into a Target I set aside such childish things and that store became our shopping Mecca for darn near everything it takes to raise two kids.
The annual trip for school supplies? Yep. Just a short drive and a few hundred bucks later Zach and Amelia were primed and ready for another year of academia.
Heading out for vacation wasn’t complete until we made the trip to get the travel-size toothpaste, mouthwash and other sundries - plus whatever sunscreen was on sale that week.
And I can’t count the number of times that place bailed us out when one of the kids would casually mention during Sunday evening supper that they had a project due in the morning and needed poster board, glue sticks, construction paper, markers, two turtledoves and a partridge in a pear tree. Still, no problem.
Now I know that there are discount stores like this all over the metro area, but this one was two minutes away. It was practically like another room in the house - albeit the only one that had a cash register.
The future Sandy Springs City Hall will someday occupy that site, and while I think the mayor and city council are probably really swell folks, I don’t see the advantage to having them just a couple minutes from my front door.
But change, I am told, is a fact of life. When Zach left for college four years ago it was tough. When Amelia left for college last year, the house felt so empty. And now this.
I better make a trip up there while I can for tissues. I have a coupon and I think I’m going to cry.
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