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DRACUT — Joan Adams feels sick when she thinks about it.

For the past 31 years, Adams and her husband Ron Levasseur have lovingly tended to their home on Coburn Avenue.

But lately they’ve been feeling like there’s a dark cloud hanging over the neighborhood.

A recent proposal to build a Walgreens drugstore on the corner of Lakeview Avenue and Mammoth Road has Adams and other residents worried that the store will severely impact their quality of life.

“I don’t sleep at night,” Adams said. “I pull the blinds down and think of Walgreens.”

After reading that last quote I just posted above, I can totally relate with that.  Believe me, if I lived in Dracut, I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night either.  Or was it the Walgreens keeping her up?  Because that I could sleep through. 

Dear readers, what we have in front of our eyes is Walgreen’s slow and steady rise towards world domination.  Ask yourself, if this chain can infiltrate a classy town like Dracut, can there be any foreseeable end to their evil grasp. 

I know hearing about a new Walgreens in Dracut isn’t exactly enough to make you fall off your chair in utter disgust (unless you enjoy dramatic gestures).  Lets face it, Dracut is not the kind of place to ever even think about.  It is the type of town that if you go there, it is purely by accident.  You know what I mean.  Like you are driving to a party at someones house you have never been to, suddenly you realize you missed a turn and then “BOOM”, you’re in Dracut and are surrounded by pickup trucks covered with stickers of Calvin (or is it Hobbs) pissing on something and giving the world the finger.  Oh and how did you figure out where you were?  The tip off was the Lo-Kai on Lakeview Ave.  You know once you see that, you drove too far.  Luckily their parking lot is big, so you can always turn around and promise yourself that next time you will be equipped with that GPS you have been eyeing. 

Oh yes, so Walgreens.  Who the hell do they think they are?  Opening up buisnesses left and right and making all of that money off of disgusting old men and their Viagra pills.  Honetly, they are showing up at such an alarming pace that I have to wonder if our area is facing a criss of unfilled prescriptions that I am unaware of?  And what is next for this chain, opening up a location near the Middlesex St entrance of the Rourke Bridge?  So help me if that does happen I will scream!  What was the thought process on that one?  Hey, you know that intersection near the Rourke bridge that is in a constant state of chaos?  Lets put a pharmacy there.  I mean, that little area only has two!

Wallgreen’s worst offence is that it is boring.  I know, wouldn’t that make having one in Dracut kind of redundant.  My point is that there is nothing worst than eyeing a new construction, getting excited with the possibilities “why….anything could go there….maybe a chocolate factory” and then seeing the “coming soon Walgreens” sign. 

So to Walgreens I say, just leave Dracut alone.  Boring old sad Dracut.