Fun fact: Dollar General was founded by a father and son from Lafayette TN, and they opened their first store in Scottsville KY, just to the northwest of us.
I live in Lafayette, a town of about 6000 souls, and there's so many goddamned Dollar Generals around that I don't even notice them any more. We have 3 in town that I can think of and God knows how many scattered around the countryside.
To prove that, Lisa was getting directions to a shop over the phone, and she told me it was on Hwy 52 just past the Dollar General, right before you get to the Westside Elementary School turn-off just this side of Westmoreland. I told Lisa I've never seen a Dollar General there. Keep in mind I drive that road a couple times a week.
Guess what. The next time I drove to Portland, I saw that motherfucker right where the woman told Lisa it was. I have no idea how long it had been there, but I bet it was years, probably before we even moved here.
I pay my utilities in person. The place where I pay my phone bill is outside of town a mile or two to the east. One month I paid the bill and there was a bulldozer sitting in an empty field a little further down the road. I went back to pay my bill the next month and that empty lot was now a Dollar General already open for business.
And before you ask, I've been in exactly one and that was just to see what they had to offer. I left without buying anything.
