Poppy: Mommy, I’m sorry your computer can’t compute as fast as your old computer.
Me: Thanks honey.
P: Maybe we can make it go faster!
Me: Yeah? How would we do that.
P: My store — where someone lives, called The Panic — has faster cartridges. We will use a faster cartridge from my store.
I would be worried about someone named The Panic living in my daughter’s store, but I happen to know that The Panic is the name of the store. I’m not sure who lives there, but I know they used to sell jewelry. I asked her why they were selling “fast computer cartridges” now, and she said, “They’re all out of jewelry.”
Maybe it’s a pawn shop! With that name, and the fact that they sometimes sell jewelry & sometimes sell computer parts, it would make sense.
Love the imagination! And, incidentally, I think it’s a pretty cool name for a store.
Zach calls them ‘pooters’, which never fails to make me laugh and I refuse to correct.
I panic when I go in a lot of stores so having a store called “the Panic” seems entirely appropriate to me…