This business on Walnut Street in Abiline, Texas, wasn’t open when I happened by a few years ago, so I just snapped a photo and filed it away so I could check it out later.
From the front and the windows it certainly looked like a regular hardware store, and I didn’t see any stock of bibles or biblical hardware on display, so I figured it was owned by someone who had decided to fuse their religious life with their business.
Not so at all. This 76-year-old business, now on only its third owner, was founded way back in 1944 by one Rufus Bible. 
The Urge to be Someplace Else 
damn. I was hoping to read the Book of Wrench
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I thought it was the Book of Wruth.
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That’s funny, my first thought on seeing your photo was of a place selling belt buckles that had been ‘saved’.
The real backstory is more interesting, however. How many jokes did that poor guy have to listen to over the years?
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