EAT HERE, GET GAS

Sometimes you see a shopping plaza where the stores just don't make sense.

Of course, sometimes they do, like having a quilt shop and a daycare center in the same strip mall.  That makes sense because quilts are blankets made with love and care, and toddlers need love and care and use blankets.

But having a fast food restaurant and an ice cream shop in a strip mall with Weight Watchers -- that just doesn't make sense.  Or maybe it does: WW can guarantee return business if the participants are constantly tempted to turn to the Dark Side.  I guess holding AA meetings next to the packy (that's a liquor store to you non-New Englanders) isn't so wise, either.

Today, though, I saw the best combination of all time:  A gun shop attached to a cake bakery.  Yup, someone decided that selling ammo and rifles and such would do a good business if buyers are first tempted with a cupcake or other confection.  

I suppose they're both related.  They do both involve body parts.  After all, arm and buns go together; trigger fingers and sweet tooth go together.  And what about these similarities: People and cakes can both get iced; guns are the hallmark of the good guy/bad guy struggle, and there are angel food and devil food cakes; rifles are larger versions of pistols, and cakes are larger versions of cupcakes.  

I still cannot understand how these two businesses operate side-by-side.  I am bemoaning this fact when Child #1, whom I have kidnapped for the day, says, "That actually does make sense because now you can have your cake and shoot it, too." 

Or maybe it's for shotgun weddings.  Either way, it's still a great "buy one, get one."