Shortly before the new year, the hardware store in the ODC Center (the shopping center across the street from our apartment) packed up everything and closed. We had hypotheses about what was going on, starting with just unpacking a new shipment of imports from China, to doing a re-set of the floor plan, to oh my gosh they're closing. No clearance sale or announcements, just packed up and closed over about a week. At night we had sparks shows from the parking lot as they were cutting down the metal shelving and fixtures to load them onto trucks and drive them away. This is the store where we stocked quite a bit of our apartment, a few little things at a time. Also the store where the security guard would buy Aeden little checkout counter gifts and always take off his hat to rub his hair and kiss his cheek.
A few days after they were gone, Brian noticed the marble flooring down the center of the space had popped up and was breaking. It is a geology lesson running down the middle of the floor! Best we can guess is that the weight of the fixtures and inventory was keeping the marble down, and now that it is gone, the building owners have a mess on their hands. Flashbacks to Town Center Foods once again.
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