The Random Location

In every town there is at least one place where teenagers like go to hang out with their friends. The city I grew up in, Grand Blanc, was fairly small but there were still plenty of ice cream shops, coffee shops, and restaurants to go to meet up with people at. Conversations are best over a nice cup of coffee from Tim Horton's in the winter, or while meeting up at Ziggy's, the local, popular ice cream shop as soon as they open in the spring. There are many places in town that are fun to go to, but my best friend Emily and I liked to be a little bit different. We would still go to the majority of these places when the desire to arose; however, there was one place in town that we went to the most. Kroger.
 The way I remember this tradition starting is I was with Emily at her house when she pulled some sushi out of the fridge. I had only tried sushi once before and was curious about it, so Emily shared some with me. (It is important to note that in our friendship we bond over food a lot.) The next time we hung out we were trying to figure out what to do for lunch. I remembered liking the sushi and suggested that. Really the only place in town, at the time, to get sushi was Kroger. So we hopped in Emily's beat up, red mini van (which we had named the "swagga wagon") and made going to Kroger the event for the day. 
When we got there the sushi was located at the front of the store so it was not hard to find. We had not planned anything else for the day, so we decided to waste some time and stroll around Kroger. I am a self-proclaimed "bread-aholic" so naturally I steered us toward the bakery section. Both of us had taken French in high school, so we nearly overflowed with excitement when we found some "fresh" baguette bread. We ended up purchasing the bread, the sushi, and (still feeling the French excitement) some cheese and made it a meal. Ever since that day, Emily and I have often returned to that Kroger and it has now become part of the memories I hold of our friendship.