Re: You know you are getting old when

Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <memo.20080422172516.1836A@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article <JgoPj.13002$yD2.3644@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Jette) wrote:
>>
>>> Joy Beeson wrote:
>>>> Your spouse is going to a drug store today, 
>>>> You are going to a supermarket tomorrow, 
>>>> And his list is longer than yours.  
>>>>
>>>>
>>> And when you start to look at those little "medication organiser" 
>>> things with compartments for 7 days, four times a day.
>> I did wonder about the meaning of Joy's posting, as I assume she is
>> using drug store in the US sense, which is not necessarily a place for
>> buying medicines.
> 
> In this context, it definitely means a place for buying
> medicines.  I'd spell it drugstore myself, but that's trivial.
> 


Paul and I would normally talk about "going to the chemist" or "going 
to a pharmacy", but I suspected Joy meant "store where you get your 
OTC medicine" by the fact she talked about her going to the supermarket.

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Jette Goldie
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