a friend is coming to visit me from china this friday and staying over for the night. since i've been living in my pig pen for almost 3 month and my laundry card is nonfunctioning, i am running out of fresh sheets and pillow covers. of course i can't let her sleep on my dirty sheets, decided to take a walk outside.
suddenly remembered that there was a fabric store on chapel street. i used to go there a lot during freshman and sophomore years. they had all kinds of fabrics from silk to cotton to fleece, at very reasonable prices. there were some even for $1 a yard! so i thought it's a perfect place for me to get a few yards of pretty cloth to use as lennin, at 1/3 or less the price i will pay for bed covers in the bookstore or urban outfitters. filled with excitement, i walked over to chapel street-- however it now looked so much different than what i remembered from a couple years ago! i just can't find that fabric store. the two wig stores which used to be my favorite place for hair accesories, were still there. but the fabric store next door has evaoporated. instead, there were citi bank, dunkin donuts, us post office, and footlocker. so i stepped in a clothing store that calls itself a botique, and asked the muscular black man who's the manager, "ah, i am wondering, there used to be a fabric store on this street?" "oh you mean howard brothers. it closed down." "did they move to somewhere else?" "no, it just closed down." oh no! >O< there goes my plan to buy pretty sheets for my friend.
i asked the guy if there were any other fabric stores around here-- the answer was "not around here, there is one in hamden, joanne fabrics" oh geeze another chain store.
so sad that all those good cool local shops are being replaced by chain stores which doesn't sell anything useful and is so expensive! "resist chain stores, support local business" should the slogan for evert american town!