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We’re a small, country town. Population 6,664.

We don’t have much by way of shopping or eating.

For years it’s been rumored we were going to get a Burger King.

And every time ground is broken for a new building, you hear someone say, “I bet it’s a Burger King.”

Sadly, it never is. It’s usually a car wash or an oil change place. We even have one place that has both!

But our first moment of greatness was….getting….a….

WAL-MART!

We waited and hovered and circled for days waiting for that puppy to open!!!!

The anticipation was palpable.

And sadly, there was no mistake here. I didn’t mean to say Super Wal-Mart. I just mean plain ol’ Wal-Mart. Home of the dropped prices.

The place where we could get things and stuff we needed or just thought we had to have!

That first day, my whole town hit it. I do mean my entire town!!

I was in ninth grade, and I remember it like it was yesterday. And yeah, I know. That was a long damn time ago!

You can all just shut your pie holes about that!

But it was so crowded on that first day that we would have to go back numerous times to find a spot in the parking lot.

When we did find one, it was at the back!

And believe it or not, I can still remember the walk from our car to that door!

The only thing that even came close to this was when we finally got a McDonald’s a few months later.

Same scenario, smaller parking lot.

But we really were THAT excited.

And of course, through the years that excitement waned.

I grew up.

Out town got more stores.

Wal-Mart became a place for running errands and not a place for joy.

But last night….

I was craving, of all things, Caramel Rice Cakes.

And where did I go?

Yep.

Wal-Mart.

I can’t say that I was excited to go, but I can say I was glad they had what I needed.

Kind of like?

The gym.

Your initial excitement may die down, yet what you need still lies beyond that door.

And if you go in, you’ll come out have gotten what you needed.

Excited or not.

(But I do still get excited when they start getting out the Christmas stuff every year at Wal-Mart! That excitement will never die.)