Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2009-09-27 00:34
I stopped at a little store just off I-95 in Newport Maine earlier this month. Besides self-serve gas pumps, they sold some groceries and fresh food as well as snacks and beverages.
As I was paying for my purchases, I looked at the display on the wall behind the cashier. There, along with tobacco products and such, were several boxes of Rico clarinet reeds.
Surprised to see such a specialized music item in a small convenience store, I asked the young cashier how they happened to carry them. She looked confused, and when I pointed to the boxes of reeds, she said, no, those were pipe cleaners. I didn't have a chance to respond when another woman who was cooking behind the adjacent takeout counter looked over, and she - thinking I wanted pipe cleaners - said, no, those were just clarinet reeds.
The woman then went back to her frying, and the cashier beamed at me. There was a line forming, so I thanked the cashier and left.
Back in the car, I exclaimed to my companion, a non-musician, about the little store having clarinet reeds. He wasn't impressed; he claimed most little stores have them. When I scoffed that in a gazillion places like that I'd never seen clarinet reeds, he made a little reference about my attention and insisted that many small convenience stores carry clarinet reeds.
Well, I guess I haven't been to all that many convenience stores in Maine.
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