Busiest

Cheap specs were needed; the old ones, as cheap specs do, had broken themselves, or at least that's the way it seemed. The Walgreen's on Riverside was wall-to-wall people. Only the cosmetics aisle wasn't crowded. Toys and snacks were the attraction. There were Bratz knock-offs and all sorts of toy vehicles. Featured up front were dolls over a foot tall, some in bridal gowns and some in dress from around the world. These were made in China and selling two for ten dollars. The parking lot wasn't all that full, but, then, most of the customers had arrived on foot or by bus. This is the Walgreen's that plays Latin music on the tape system and that has a staff that's comfortable with the Spanish language. We very, very rarely visit shopping centers or malls and especially not during the season from Hallowe'en to after New Year's, so this was the most frantic shopping seen outside the H-E-B at Congress and Oltorf. We haven't yet been to Whole Earth up on the Drag or to Lamme's Candies or to BookPeople.