For those of you who may not know, Safeway is a national wide American grocery store. This post is dedicated to the story behind this very grocery store became a point of reference in D.C.
Conversation with friend
Friend: Meet at Safeway?
Me: Soviet-Safeway?
Friend: Swedka-no-more-Safeway.
Me: Wait. Isn't Soviet-Safeway the same as Swedka-no-more-Safeway?
Friend: Is it?
Me: Thinking about it. Secret-Safeway might be closer to where we are going.
Friend; So is UnSafeway, but you know we aint meeting there.
In addition to UnSafeway, Swedka-no-more-Safeway (also known as No-wine-Safeway) & Soviet-Safeway (also known as Rationed-Safeway) there is a long list of [fill in blank] Safeway's including Sexy-Safeway, Spanish-Safeway & Social-Safeway.
I feel obliged to add a note to the Sexy-Safeway's. Don't be deceived. Showing up wearing your finest Saturday Night Live outfit thinking that you will get lucky -- not likely going to happen. The Sexiness is a tribute to the exterior: a steel and glass modernist design that looks hot next to some of its blocky brick neighbors.
Whoever you are that came up with first [fill in blank] Safeway.
S(t)hank you!
