The new, larger out of doors store
Proof that the cream rises to the top in entertainment: this evening my son spent far too much time discovering Monty Python skits via YouTube. Why, back in my day, we had to wait for the local television station to broadcast them, once a week. Kids have it too easy. At least he’s showing good taste. He could have decided to look for Red Foxx monologues.
This afternoon, prompted by a sales announcement in the daily newspaper, we decided to take a short trip to our favourite camping supply outlet. True, the season is over for us (work requires that I arrive in a reasonably rested state), but the store has been completely renovated since last spring. Doubled in size, they claim. My first evidence that there was more than enough space may have been the stuffed bull moose in the atrium. Not a head with a rack; a full-sized four-footed alien ungulate. The store couldn’t have placed a full-sized photo in the old premises.
Gone is that curious space in the attic where they pitched tents. Now, there’s a large open area with enough room for the clients to stand back and imagine a tent against a starry sky, or a lakeshore with birch trees. Ditto for the camp kitchen display, although I wonder who actually takes a foldaway sink to the great outdoors.
I did purchase a couple of polar liners for sleeping bags, because when the price hits 2 for 1 I reach for the wallet. Ditto for a polar coat liner at half price; you can never have too many coat liners up here in the Great White south of the real north, right? Bottom line is that the store expansion was worth the time and effort (and percentage of yearly profits). Go Latulippe!
