I’m sure, unless you live in or near Springfield, Missouri, the news that a major local bakery here is closing means little to you. But for the last 30 years, we’ve driven past this bakery — not a small, mom/pop operation, but a full fledged commercial bakery — and enjoyed the wonderful fragrance of freshly baking bread.
As of early May, it’ll be gone. No more fun shopping at the attached “day old” store. No more freshly baked fragrance.
I could ramble about political ramifications of all this. Perhaps something like, “Hey, the only thing that’ll really pacify people during our current recession is more ‘bread and circuses’ by the pols — so why did they let this bakery close??”
I could do that. But I won’t. I’ll just say that I’ll miss the place. Hopefully the 105 people losing jobs will find something good.