Office supply store bloodhound!
It suddenly popped into my mind that I needed to buy a storage drawer from an office supply store. I’m moving soon and will be using hanging folders in one of these drawers to organize my papers.
I sat at an intersection I knew fairly well, one about 20 minutes from my apartment, but I had never taken a right at that intersection. I had never gone south, and I really had no idea what stores were located on that section of the street.
Then, I had a brilliant insight.
The intersection is in the midst of quite a popular shopping area—everything from shoe stores to Nordstrom to Panera—and I’d never seen an office supply store in the area. I decided to take a leap of faith: Office Depot, Office Max, Staples, et al. must have a store in this area, it must be south, and I must never have seen it before. I mean, these office supply stores are all over the place, right? They would be crazy not to have one in this area.
So I changed lanes, hung a right, and kept my eyes open.
Yep. Half a block, on the right. Office Depot, she’s a-singin’ to me. Am I a bloodhound for chain stores? Oh, yeah baby. I can smell those toner catridges a block away.