As a kid I mis-spelled the word "friend", and since that day, I have always struggled to write the word. I also mis-pronounce certain words - "envelope" and "root", but today Pickles told me that in her high school the dread word in "popcorn" was organism. Apparently, there was a virus that affected her class causing kids to "accidentally" say orgasm. Apparently this flooded into her college career when she accidentally said "orgasm" three times in a row in her Philosophy class when she meant to say organism. Amazingly, only a handful of kids in this class responded with laughter - suggesting either that Pickles often suffered from horrible verbal diarrhea or that no one was paying attention. Either way, that's too bad because Pickles is great fun and full of verbal slip ups that are well worth listening to.
Today we (Pickles and I) drove to Kearney. This is the most rural town that Pickles has ever visited. Ever. One time she stopped in a random Missouri town at a carnival that had a lot of fish (per her). She was amazed that many rural towns do not have grocery stores. She had never considered why small towns don't generate the demand to support a local grocery store. Interestingly, she also commented that the conference that we were at seemed to have a disproportionate stressing of farmer's markets as a solution to this problem.
Lastly, she had a brilliant idea regarding a new thing necessary for the Omaha market - an indoor climbing wall. I am going to try to convince her to continue exploring this possibility. I think it could be successful - but I'd be interesting in understanding the demographics that use these walls in Phoenix and other places.
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