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There is an absurd number of them. It used to feel like a quarter of al the stores on University were selling rugs. I just assume that stores I can't explain a
by joshu 15y ago
There is an absurd number of them. It used to feel like a quarter of al the stores on University were selling rugs.
I just assume that stores I can't explain are fronts for something.
I used to work in Times Square and always wondered about the absurdly expensive gadget stores around...
- cperciva 15y agoA few years ago I was in Montreal and commented on the presence of what seemed like an extraordinarily large number of stores selling Persian rugs. I was told -- completely sincerely, as far as I could tell -- that they were fronts for drug smuggling, since the rugs were bulky enough to hide things in and expensive enough that customs agents wouldn't start slicing them open on the basis of drug dogs alone. I'm still not sure if there was any truth to that story or if it was just xenophobia speaking.
- philwelch 15y agoPioneer Square in Seattle is also littered with an irrational number of carpet stores. It seems like a widespread oddity, whatever the cause.