Tom Thumb Pharmacy

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Tom Thumb Pharmacy, every morning begins with an announcement over the intercom: ‘Attention, please pick up your flying monkeys before leaving.’ A regular noticed them first—small, colorful figurines left behind in the aisles. Soon enough, everyone started bringing their own flying monkey friends. A delivery driver even showed up one day with a whole crate of them. Word spread quickly, and soon Tom Thumb Pharmacy became known as the place where you could check out—and check in—your flying monkey. A regular quipped that it was like having a pharmacy for pets, but for magical creatures instead. In the end, no one ever did find out whose flying monkeys they were, but that didn’t stop people from coming back daily to see if today was finally the day they’d fly away.

2. At Tom Thumb Pharmacy, every night around closing time, the ceiling fan mysteriously starts spinning backwards—slowly at first, then faster and louder until it sounds like a tiny tornado. Employees just shrug it off as part of the old building’s charm. One night, an eager new employee asked why no one ever tried turning off the fan. The next day, everyone heard a loud thud followed by a delivery driver explaining he’d ‘just bumped into something.’ Since then, whenever the fan starts up, everyone waits for the inevitable crash—and occasionally brings a broom for good luck.

3. At Tom Thumb Pharmacy, customers often wonder if their prescriptions are being mixed up. One day, a regular asked aloud: 'Why does the pharmacist always greet me as “Mr. Jones”?' The pharmacist smiled and replied, ‘Because your name is on every bottle, Mr. Jones.’ The whole place burst into laughter, including the new delivery driver who thought he heard something strange.

4. At Tom Thumb Pharmacy, when a new delivery driver arrives for the first time, they always get the same warning from the old pharmacist: 'Mind your steps—this hallway has a habit of swallowing people whole!' One day, a young delivery driver named Alex arrived, eager to impress. As he walked down that infamous hallway, he heard an old voice whisper, ‘Step carefully, sonny!’ Suddenly, his foot caught on something invisible—and he found himself standing in front of an ancient medicine cabinet, completely unharmed but thoroughly embarrassed. From then on, whenever anyone asked about Tom Thumb’s mysterious hallway, everyone just smiled and said, “It must be magic!”