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[Galilei]

Located in Cut and Shoot, Texas  http://en.wikipedia....nd_Shoot,_Texas

I do not live there, but I have been through the area a few times.

Edited by Galilei, 11 September 2012 - 05:49 AM.

[JamieSymptom]

There's a place near where I live in Halifax, Yorkshire that I find weird.

It looks like the kind of house clearance / Bric-a-Brac shop that did better back in the day before everyone just sold their old strange rubbish on ebay:



It has junk-shop-y things in the window that you can probably make out - fireplaces, jugs, diving helmets, big old plaster cupids, ancient glass bottles and whatnot.

Not too weird eh? But for as far back as I can remember noticing it, maybe 17 years or so, I have never seen this 'shop' open. It doesn't even have a sign. As far as I can tell, the 'goods' in the window have never changed.

When you peer in the windows, it's too dark to make out anything beyond the incredibly cluttered window displays. When you go past at night there are never lights on. Yet, it has had recent paint on the wooden facings and doesn't really look derelict.

I wish I knew what it was. Semi-abandoned shop? Crazy person's idea of home decoration? No-one I speak to about it knows...

[Wildchild41]

There's a place near my house that always has 2 empty white trucks parked infront of it, and the garage door is always open so you can see what they have in there and it's all just machinery. They never come in or go out but the door always closes by its self...

[Wookietim]

Back when I was married and living in Philadelphia I used to walk past a weird store. Never went into it or anything and for the life of me I don't remember the address... But it was weird. Every now and then there would be a woman sitting in the window. She would look nervous and as if she wanted to look over her shoulder but didn't. There was a curtain behind her. I always joked that it was a sex shop to the wife but the woman that was there wasn't dressed like that - she was in a normal "Business Casual" type clothing.

The store always had a weird kind of closed look to it so I never went in. One day I walked by and the store was entirely closed. No idea what it sold or who owned it. I always vaguely wondered about it...

[King Fluffs]

There's a store near me called "Mary's cake shop".
It's named innocently enough, but boy did I have one whopping shock when I walked in for the first time, expecting cake.

It was a sex toy shop, run by a he-she.
I couldn't get out the door fast enough.

[ioppolo]

Galilei, on 11 September 2012 - 05:49 AM, said:

Located in Cut and Shoot, Texas  http://en.wikipedia....nd_Shoot,_Texas

I do not live there, but I have been through the area a few times.

What on earth...?

[JGirl]

there's a headshop down the street from me called 'the lemonade stand' . not a weird store, but i always wonder why they named it that.