As 2017 heads out of town, I thought I would throw a little levity towards at year that has been particularly tough.
Do you remember the TV show cheers? The opening music sang about how everybody wants to go where everyone knows their name.
For me that is the River Inn in Hanover.
They call me by name. I get hugs. The owners know me. The staff knows me. Other patrons know me. They know what I like to drink and where I like to sit. They know what I have been through over the past few years and they check up on me. It's my place.
Now where your place is and at what level they know you at is very personal. You get to decide where it is and how well you want them to know you. And everyone's place is different for personal reasons. Once you have chosen this place and they get to know you then the place becomes special. And since you chose it, it become in a sense your place.
Well except for when it isn't, so let me tell you about yesterday.
I got a new place where they now know me by name. I didn't pick it. If I had a top ten place list where everyone knows me, it wouldn't had made that list either.
They know me by site and get my order ready when they see me.
This location pretty much sums up the last few months of 2017.
The place?
Walgreens pharmacy.
Yep I pulled into the drive thru to pick up a new prescription and before I can get my window all the way down the lady goes "Hi Roger, I have something for you." She then disappeared and came back with my new prescription. You know the year has been tough when the pharmacist knows you by name.
Here is hoping that 2018 has less pharmacy visits than 2017.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
You want to be where you can see,
Our troubles are all the same;
You want to be where everybody knows your name.
(Where Everyone Knows Your Name. Gary Portnoy &Judy Hart Angelo)
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