Base Exchange

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. In the late afternoon, a regular pushed his shopping cart past Base Exchange’s entrance. ‘Hey,’ he said aloud, ‘why does it feel like everything here is cheaper today?’ Just then, a delivery driver walked in with a huge box under his arm and muttered, ‘Finally found where I can buy all this stuff for half price!’ The regular laughed and shook his head, pushing his now overflowing cart towards the checkout counter. As they left, someone whispered, ‘Maybe tomorrow everything will be twice as expensive again.’

2. One morning, a delivery driver pulled up to the Base Exchange loading dock with a mysterious crate marked ‘Top Secret.’ As he opened it, everyone gathered around, curious what strange item had arrived today. Inside was a small, glowing orb that looked like a deflated beach ball. Everyone stared for a moment before someone joked, 'Maybe it's an experimental energy-saver?' Soon, the whole base was buzzing about how they could use it in the cafeteria. In the end, it turned out to be just a prototype of a new LED bulb—brought back from some obscure military project. And now, every time anyone sees a regular old lightbulb, they whisper, 'Could be another Base Exchange mystery!'

3. In the early hours of dawn, a delivery driver pulled up to the Base Exchange loading dock with an unusual cargo. Among crates of canned goods and boxes of toilet paper, he noticed something odd—a small wooden box wrapped in brown paper. Curious, he opened it to find… nothing but a note that read: ‘To whoever finds this, please return it to Room 101.’ He shrugged, laughed, and left it on the shelf. A week later, someone from headquarters called asking if anyone had seen a mysterious wooden box. The next day, a neighbor joked, “I saw it—you missed it!”}

4. In the middle of an ordinary day, a neighbor stopped by the checkout counter and asked the cashier, ‘Do you ever get tired of scanning the same items here?’ The cashier smiled and replied, ‘Not really, but I do wonder sometimes why some people buy so many cans of beans.’ Just then, a delivery driver approached the counter with a box under his arm. He joked, ‘Hey, did you know they sell entire meals in those canned bean aisles? It’s like someone’s trying to teach us how to cook without recipes!’ Everyone laughed, realizing that maybe there was more to these mysterious bean buyers than met the eye.