No, I can totally have done that. I tried to present Basha`s with my Safeway club card once. Oops?

I have done that a time or three myself. But you saying that, reminds me of the time I was in Nelson's (local family-owned grocery chain in Minnesota, a bit smaller than Basha's but similar in a lot of ways) and found a Basha's store brand something or other mixed in with the Nelson's brand items. I had to buy it for nostalgia's sake. It may have been pie crust, but I don't remember clearly.

I don't think I've ever even heard of that. Assuming it's referencing the same spot, it's now just "the junction".

The junction is where the Kennedy and the Edens meet. The Hubbard Cave is downtown--it's the tunnel you go through on the Kennedy southbound on your way into the Loop before you meet up with the Dan Ryan and the Eisenhower.

Seriously, you go shopping and don't know what STORE you drove youself to and walked into?

I've done that plenty. Especially trying to run multiple errands to multiple places in one day. But also just plain being that absent-minded.

I can't remember right now if the bookstore near me is a Borders or B&N. It has a Starbucks in it. I think.

I find the hotness of young Stalin disturbing, but I can't deny it.

I must completely ignore traffic reports for downtown - you know, the few occasions I have to listen to traffic reports at all.

Borders is closing their MagMile flagship store here in Chicago

Publishers Weekly had a piece last week about them not paying a lot of their vendors, and all kinds of talk of "restructuring," which seems to be code for possible bankruptcy.

(soapbox) Support your locally-owned bookseller! There are still plenty of independent bookstores in Chicago, for example, plus there's always online. (gettin' off it)

Also I like to call stores "the [whatever]'s" myself, and I'm all northeast.

I do too! Although I'm all mid-atlantic-y.

Here's info on Hubbard's Cave.

The Hubbard Cave is downtown--it's the tunnel you go through on the Kennedy southbound on your way into the Loop before you meet up with the Dan Ryan and the Eisenhower.

Oh, okay. I think they just skip that and say to the Loop these days.

I don't think I put "the" in front of store names or possessives that weren't already there (except Penney's, but as Sophia says, not with the JC). When I lived on St. Mary St. I always called it St. Mary's, though.

I hope that all the Border's don't go. My local Borders actually does events for local authors and community outreach stuff - where the B&N does not.