If the Name Fits, Why Not Use It?
After George Bethell alerted me about Two Idiots Selling Furniture, I phoned the Garden Grove store to ask about the name (see photo). It wasn’t the owners’ original choice.
“But we had so much trouble dealing with the city, getting licenses and permits, that my partner said, ‘We’re a couple of idiots for even attempting this,’ ” Oscar Garza Jr. recalled. “I said, ‘Hey, that’s a good name.’ ”
The store sign has become a local attraction.
“We have more people taking pictures of it than we do people buying stuff from us, so far,” Garza said. “But we don’t know if it turns off as many people as it attracts. Some people may not want to deal with idiots.”
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PRAISE--OF A SORT: In T. Jefferson Parker’s murder mystery, “The Triggerman’s Dance,” an FBI agent says that when he was transferred to Orange County, “I thought the place would bore me to death in a month. But it didn’t bore me at all. It had everything from slick investment hustles up in Newport Center to serial killers running up double digit stats. Orange County had a nice, eclectic criminal menu, and superb weather.”
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