Who goes to a store just to buy pens? Or scuba flippers? Or lamp shades? These are questions we might ask ourselves while driving by some of these shops. After all, big box stores have most of these items, and everything else on our shopping list, so why would someone make a special trip just for one thing? And why repair a broken vacuum cleaner when you can get a new one for under $50? Why rent a DVD when you can stream a movie that is guaranteed not to skip? These are all viable questions in our modern world and yet, and yet People are going to these places.