Whoever saw Lagniappe Potpourri 2011, (this year), knows that the theme was CHANGE. Change is hard to do. Life is never constant. These were the reoccurring messages throughout the show. And while Lagniappe is a comical variety show, the message always seems to be such a present one in our lives as we journey through high-school. The most recent change I've noticed in my life has to do with Halloween. Last year, I planned my costume a good month ahead of time and had it all laid out a week before I wore it to school. This year, when people asked me what I was dressing up as, I found myself not only not knowing, but not caring. It's depressing to admit that I don't care about Halloween anymore, but it's true. I take this to mean that I'm growing up.
A change that I haven't yet accepted is the fact that the local Glencoe upscale drugstore, Parkway Drugs, has been bought out by Walgreens. My mom went in there today to get her monthly fix of cinnamon Altoids and found that they were gone. No, not temporarily out, just gone. While that is an unpleasant change for my mom, the biggest issue is that Walgreens actually assured the staff of Parkway that they would all be able to keep their jobs, then pulled the rug out from under them a few days later by firing the two pharmacists, who are beloved figures in Glencoe and have been working there for a very long time. This harsh change has created such an uproar in Glencoe that people are vowing to boycott Walgreens/Parkway. While change is inevitable and oftentimes a natural thing, sometimes people have control over it. And in this situation, the Walgreens administration is entirely to blame.
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