RIP Franchises of our youths

[Drunk Monk]

RIP Toys R Us & Claires 

I met Darth Vader at Toys R Us.  It was the haunted one, the one in Svale.  It was a promo for the first action figures.  There was Darth, a Stormtrooper and R2.  We all lined up and they came out, quickly shook hands and then disappeared into the bowels of the store, probably to hang out with the ghost of the girl who drowned in the well there and haunted it still.  Maybe ED was with me?  That seems like something we might have done together back in those days.  I grew up in that Toys R Us.  I mentioned this to Tara and she has fond memories of my mom taking her there for her birthday and picking out a present.  "That was the best" she told me when we were chatting about this recently.

As for Claire's, that was what having a daughter was about.  Tara really wasn't that into Claire's but I went in with her on numerous occasions in search of cheap trinkets.  Tara wasn't upset about Claire's going bankrupt at all.  I imagine only me, lb and tg can relate to Claire's, having all been fathers to daughters.  Oh, and PPFY's too, because I'm sure that was the place to find the best knicker accessories.