Poirier’s Market

What IS the draw of this downtown Lewiston store, anyway? Drive by at 3 a.m. on a morning that’s freezing cold and rainy and you’ll still find a pack of people hanging out in front of the store as if they’re legally required to be there. It’s a true moth-to-lamp phenomenon over there. I’m starting to suspect that there might be some kind of portal in the sidewalk in that spot. Those people look like they’re just hanging around when in fact, they’re bouncing through time and having a great old time. One minute you’re smoking a butt in downtown Lewiston and then WHAM! You’re hanging out with Laurie Ingalls on the prairie. That’s just good times right there.

IHOP

Dear readers. I am blinded by tears while writing this. One can scarcely imagine my heartbreak upon arriving at the famed breakfast joint on a Saturday afternoon only to find it closed. Closed! On a Saturday afternoon! Ought to change their name to iHope It’s Open.

Note: The hours at the Auburn IHOP are posted as 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day of the week. 

My feet are wet and I don’t want to play anymore

Oh, nice storm you brought us this week, Mom Nature. None of that fluffy bunny, snow-angel fun for us. I mean, theoretically I suppose I could have tried to make a snow angel on Tuesday, but I would have drown trying. And I would have been thankful for it. Good GOD, that was a sloppy, gross mess. January is the social disease of the 2017 calendar.

Gas station coming to Sabattus Street

In Lewiston, that is. This gas station/convenience store will be directly across the street from a gas/station convenience store just as there’s a drug store across the street from a drug store on opposite corners. Sabattus Street is all about repetition, you know. Sabattus Street is all about repetition, you know.

Wales man accused of stealing electricity

You’ve got to admit, attaching jumper cables to a power transformer is both bold and clever. Although, if this guy was REALLY clever, he would have combed his hair straight up before they took his booking photo.

1984

Days after President Trump was inaugurated, so many people bought George Orwell’s most famous book that it shot up to No. 1 on Amazon’s best-seller list nearly 70 years after its original publication. To me this is hysterical. The concepts of “1984” were in play loooooooong before Trump came to power. At least now you late-to-the-authoritarian-party folks will understand what I mean when I repeatedly accuse you of doublethink. 

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