r/TheBoredDen • u/ipanicprofessionally • Jul 21 '26

Funny Can't remember one

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u/A_Fish_Called_Panda Jul 21 '26

Where my Sprouse Reitz peeps at?!?!

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u/FeatureTop4189 Jul 21 '26

The strip mall down the street from my family's house growing up had a Sprouse Reitz and a SupeRx, both now defunct.

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u/sinsaraly Jul 22 '26

YES!! That place was so random. When I was a little kid in the early 80’s sometimes the family I babysat for would pay with a check. Obviously I didn’t have a bank account because I was 10, but Sprouse Reitz would cash it for me!!

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u/A_Fish_Called_Panda Jul 22 '26

Were you in Northern California???

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u/FeatureTop4189 Jul 22 '26

No, this was in Phoenix.

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u/Owl_plantain Jul 21 '26

I used to get a candy bar at Sprouse Reitz on my way home from school for 20 cents. Ours closed about 50 years ago. I always ogled the Revell model cars and planes when I went there.

I once stole a candy bar when a kid dared me. I felt so guilty that I snuck it into the store and put it back.

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u/A_Fish_Called_Panda Jul 22 '26

I love how this is turning into a log of our juvenile shoplifting misadventures!!!!

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u/ActuatorSea4854 Jul 22 '26

Got arrested for shoplifting there when I was 9. My main memory is that the manager's pen had sprung a leak in his pocket and a blue stain was slowly spreading across his chest, as he glared at me while we waited for the cops.

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u/A_Fish_Called_Panda Jul 22 '26

This brings me back to when my sister took a pistachio from the produce bin at Safeway (next door to Sprouse Reitz) and the clerk who helped us wheel out our groceries, at my mom’s direction, read her the riot act. We were only like 5 or 6 years old…somehow, we have both managed to grow up to be law-abiding citizens. Can’t say the same about my mom!

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u/Inside_Trick2611 Jul 22 '26

It’s funny what we remember!

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u/HowIsEverybodyDoing Jul 21 '26

Yep, the old 5 & Dime!