Small Town Liquor Stores

This past weekend we were in town ("town" being 20 miles away and consisting of about 1400 people). We stopped in the one liquor store in search of tonic. They don't carry tonic at the grocery store or the Rite-Aid (the Rite-Aid is a pharmacy, where you get beer!).

So, anyway, we went into the liquor store and looked around a bit. The owner was behind the counter and asked if he could help us.

We told him we were looking for tonic.
He said he'd never heard of it.
We said "You know, like gin and tonic?"
He just shrugged. Never heard of it.

But, he did have some club soda.
So we took that instead.