When it was announced that Super Burrito had been kicked out of their building, I wondered what kind of level of outrage or concern there would be. I suspected crocedile tears and some knowing nods, but not much more than that.

After all, while very important to Super Burrito, it's at worse an inconvenience to the rest of us. Maybe as an indicater of the changes downtown, it's resonates a bit, but really what BEM said on the Bubble2 blog says it all:

"About Super Burrito, yeah, that's too bad.

"I've been in Bend since I was a littl'un, so I don't really get too hung up on whether a store gets its lease pulled or moves or what have you."

Feel the emotion.

I understand. I'm pretty much the same way. I never ate at Super Burrito, my tastes are just too bland, and the look they gave me when I asked for ketchup sent me scurrying out the door never to return. I have always marveled at the steady stream of customers going in and out of the place. But, as BEM says, places come and places go.

Aside from my family, Pegasus is probably the most important thing in my life. At the very trough of the baseball card bust, back in 1992 or so, I realized I was on my own, to succeed or fail. No matter how many compliments we had gotten over the years, no matter how important people said we were, I knew that most of the public would shrug, say, "That's too bad." and move on. Heck, if all the people who told me after I left Redmond that they wish was still there had actually BEEN customers, I never would've left!

People lose jobs all the time, and this isn't all that different. What happens when someone tells you they lost their job? You feel a little sympathy, you might avert your gaze in embarrassment for a moment, then you wonder what happened and if you're old and experienced enough you realize it could be just about anything, and then you move on. Why should the success or failure of business be any different?

One of the comments about my saying that there had been turnover in the St. Clair building had me flummuxed. "What does that have to do with the landlord?"

Oh, I don't know, maybe because the landlord sets the rent, creates the atmosphere in which you survive or don't survive?

On the other hand, the question is legit. Businesses come and go all the time, always have.