July 31, 2007 : Shopping at Leading Appliance Store on My Way Home
© 安岡喜晴 (JoyShine)
On my way home from work, I stopped at the appliance store, a major electronics store in Japan.
While riding my bicycle, what seemed to be a small insect suddenly flew into my eye.
Then I felt, "Quickly go to a store washroom and wash this off..." and I rushed to the washroom there.
And while I was there, I bought two Playstation 2 games.
When I think of this store.... when I was a student, I often went there in the mall.
There was a department store near the store, and I often went there to buy food.
I used to go there when I was in university, so it's an important store in my memories.
And that department store closed the same day I moved out of my apartment in front of the school.
I did not know it at the time.
Some time later I went back to the area, thinking I'd probably never come back.
The store was shut, with a notice of the closing on it.
The date on the notice was the day I moved out.
That was an amazing coincidence.
I've heard that the utensils used in the restaurant, which had been in operation for many decades,
deteriorated as the closing date approached, even though they weren't in bad condition before.
I once heard that this is a strange phenomenon for managers who run a business for a long time.
In this case, it seems to be a little different from that case, but I find it almost as mysterious as that case.