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Across the Fence:  Are you a "regular"?  |
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City Chick
True Blue Farmgirl
1402 Posts
Deb
Chattanooga
TN
USA
1402 Posts |
 Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 04:37:18 AM
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Where are you a "regular" at? You know, that place "where everyone knows your name?"
For me it's the library. I'm there so often, they all know me. Trader Joe's is starting to know my face now too.
What place do you want to be known as a "regular"?
This summer - it's going to be the Farmers Market!
How about you?
Farm Girl #790
http://www.xanga.com/My_Pondering_Place
https://twitter.com/EllieFunt
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krbrown@rocketmail.com
Farmgirl in Training
29 Posts
Kim
Allendale
MI
USA
29 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 04:52:25 AM
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| I am a regular at our thrift store here in town. I go there sometimes 3 times a week. |
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cajungal
True Blue Farmgirl
2349 Posts
Catherine Farmgirl Sister #76
Houston Area
Texas
2349 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 04:53:16 AM
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I'm a regular at our local coffee house (not Starbucks). It's a local mom and pop coffee house with great atmosphere and a drive through. The workers know what you always order. My oldest daughter now works there, but I don't get free coffee!
I'm a regular at the feed store. The owner has a porch for customers to sit and visit.
My whole family are regulars at the library. One of the librarians holds new books that come in that she thinks we will like. It's so cool....like Christmas.....we walk in and she has books for us that haven't even made it to the shelves.
I'd like to NOT be a regular at restaurants......I eat out way too much.
One of the best compliments from one of my daughters: "Moma, you smell good...like dirt." |
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mscountrygirl
True Blue Farmgirl
552 Posts
Michelle
Lucedale
Mississippi
USA
552 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 06:44:18 AM
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What a wonderful topic! I am a regular almost everywhere I go because it's a small town. I enjoy debating politics with the butcher's son, swapping veggie recipes with the produce stand owner, and catching up at Wal-Mart in the check out line. I am a member of the Friends of the Library so I know everyone by first name. The thift stores in town even know my children's name. I am so grateful that you posted this. I suddenly feel very fortunate to live in a small town!
It's all good! |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
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Faransgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
895 Posts
Beth
Houston
Texas
USA
895 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 08:50:27 AM
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Yup, for me it is the feed store. All the kids know my name and don't have to ask before looking me up in the computer. Also, Brittany at the local sonic knows my order and recognizes my truck. She is always thrown off when I have someone with me though. Gotta go to sonic on the way to the barn. I live in a big city having a place where everyone knows your name is unusual.
Farmgirl Sister 572
When manure happens just say "WOO HOO Fertilizer". |
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
2199 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 08:58:50 AM
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The feed store and our local Mom and Pop hardwear store.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3335 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
3335 Posts |
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vintagediva1
True Blue Farmgirl
1251 Posts
Michele
Brighton
Michigan
USA
1251 Posts |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 09:28:50 AM
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The co-op,the library, the local thrift shops, my vet, the pharmacy, my local favorite shopping market, my doctor... My two fovorite coffee houses and more! oh my gosh! I love living in a smallish town...I'm not just another face out there =)
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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classygram
True Blue Farmgirl
1812 Posts
Brenda
Pleasant Hill
Mo.
USA
1812 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 09:36:56 AM
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I have lived here in P.Hill for 36 years and everyone knows everyone and everything about them and then some!hahaha But I don't want to live anywhere else. Church would be one place I'm a regular and the pharmacy, grocery store, dollar store. Anything other that those, I need to go out of town.
Blessings, Brenda
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony" Mahatma Gandhi |
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Maryjane Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
2195 Posts
Maryjane
CA
USA
2195 Posts |
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Ingrid
True Blue Farmgirl
432 Posts
Ingrid
BC
Canada
432 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 11:26:30 AM
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I'm a regular at the thrift store and my favourite garden store.
Give thanks to yourself everyday for all the wonderful things you do! |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 12:56:30 PM
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I love walking in a store and everyone says "hi Kris". That's just the best thing ever. So first is the bank, then post office, Ace hardware, feed store, co-op, Dollar General. I love all these places and go all the time. At the bank they let me get away with alot because hubby's never here. So I just sign his name. Oh and the pharmacy.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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knitnpickinatune
True Blue Farmgirl
1140 Posts
Sherrie
Gardena
California
USA
1140 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 3:19:21 PM
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Lets see.....Costco,Michaels,Lowes, used to be on the garage sale route but I quit doin that as I was collecting too much stuff-now go 2x a year out junkin.
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mando pickin & fiddle sawin' Farmgirl #702 |
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Faransgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
895 Posts
Beth
Houston
Texas
USA
895 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 6:46:13 PM
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Oh, I forgot Hancock the fabric store. My sister and I even ran into one of the clerks at the Ren. Fest and had a long chat. If we don't show up on Sunday they all ask us if everything is ok.
Farmgirl Sister 572
When manure happens just say "WOO HOO Fertilizer". |
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Sitnalta
True Blue Farmgirl
4208 Posts
Jessica
NJ
USA
4208 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 6:53:44 PM
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walmart...lol
hugs
Jessie
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go." ~Abraham Lincoln
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traildancer
True Blue Farmgirl
485 Posts
Loyce
Glide
OR
USA
485 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 7:49:07 PM
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Would you believe Dairy Queen? Medium strawberry cheesequake blizzard with shots of cocoa fudge. They start making it before I open my mouth!!
The trail is the thing.... Louis L'Amour |
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
2099 Posts |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 06:57:35 AM
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I'm a regular at the Aladdins on Monroe Ave (it's a mediterranean restaurant). My husband and I always get the exact same thing. Actually, that reminds me that it's been almost a month since we were there...we'd better go out to eat soon or they'll forget us.
I'm becoming a regular at the Record Archive. It's a music store, but they have live shows on the weekends and our band has played there 3 or 4 times in the past year.
Oh, and don't forget the hairdresser. I've gotten my husband and sister to switch over to my place, so they see a lot of us. |
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Lainey
True Blue Farmgirl
2401 Posts
Elaine
Waco
Kentucky
USA
2401 Posts |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 08:04:23 AM
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I'm pretty much a regular at the little grocery/gas station at the end of our road. I usually will stop and get my regular chicken breast patty for breakfast and sometimes get my lunch for work there too. I'm always stopping to get gas or something in the evenings. If I go a few days and don't stop the workers there will ask if everything is ok.
Farmgirl Sister #25
http://countrygirldreams.blogspot.com/
An Angel says, 'Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice.' |
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mscountrygirl
True Blue Farmgirl
552 Posts
Michelle
Lucedale
Mississippi
USA
552 Posts |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 11:54:14 AM
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I forgot the co-op. Another big meeting place is the cat fish resturant up the road. We don't have many places to eat outside of the Wafflehouse and fast food.
It's all good! |
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farmallgrl
True Blue Farmgirl
483 Posts
Angela
Westminster
MD
USA
483 Posts |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 6:01:08 PM
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Wow let's see, the feed store, the fabric store, the vet's office, the P.O., our little thrift store, and the bowling alley. EVERYONE at the bowling has known me since I could walk, and sometime in my childhood I inherated the name MABLE? I don't know how or why but yes I have a nickname at the bowling alley!!! LOL
Angela
Farmgirl Sister #337
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2971 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
2971 Posts |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 6:21:05 PM
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Angela..I saw on some sitcom years ago that Mable is a acronym for Mommies-Always-Bring-Extra-Love
Are you a mommy? |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 6:28:52 PM
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I hope I could be called a regular here at MJF!!!
Other places include Publix, our grocery store, which my granddaughter calls Nana's Publix. They all say hello to me there, and I look forward to seeing them each time I go.
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
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Edited by - jpbluesky on Mar 04 2010 05:18:47 AM |
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - Mar 04 2010 : 03:39:58 AM
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That would have to be the feed store too. I buy all our chicken feed here and the owner buys my eggs
And one of the better coffee shops is 30 miles away and we stop and get coffee first thing. I bring a huge mug that has the zoo logo on it. The workers know my order every time. I can't drink this much all in one day, the fat content is off the charts, so I take the rest home and love to sip on chilled, flavored coffee for 3 days thereafter! How's that for stretching a dollar!
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - Mar 04 2010 : 03:44:06 AM
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| Another good one is the vet. Not from frequent visits, thank goodness, but b/c the workers love my dog. She gets boarded there every year when we go on vacation and gets extra time in their fenced yard outside. They say she is so well behaved. (She better be!) :) So they all know us by sight and give Jaz extra lovins' whenever we are there for exams and to drop her off. |
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