Flashback Friday - #5 - Downtown

Aah. Greater downtown metropolitan New Middletown, Indiana - also known as Harpool's General Store. This is right across the street from the only other convenience store in the town; Kigers. There used to be two gas pumps in front of this store. When I was around 10, my mom had asked me to go to Kiger's and get a gallon of milk. She gave me the $1.50 that it would cost and send me on my way. I ran down the country road to the store and bought the milk. As I was leaving the store, I ran down the stairs swinging the purchase. It slipped out of my grasp and the milk leapt into the air, landing right next to the gas pumps, shattering the plastic container and spraying milk everywhere. I tried to go back in and get another gallon from Mrs. Harpool; citing that the jug must have been defective, but she didn't believe me. I ended up going home, getting more money from my mom, returning to Harpool's and buying the replacement milk, then working to earn the money back to pay my mom. Lesson learned: don't run and fling around gallons of milk! I guess I'm lucky I wasn't a child a decade or two earlier when the milk came in glass jars (of course, that might have meant that milk would be delivered and this unfortunate situation may have been totally avoided!)