Tom Thumb Pharmacy

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. A regular customer of Tom Thumb Pharmacy noticed something strange one morning: ‘Hey, I swear that bottle of aspirin just moved!’ He thought he was seeing things until it happened again. Soon enough, other customers started noticing too. A delivery driver joked, ‘Must be a new shipment of moving aspirin!’ Even the pharmacist smiled and said, ‘Welcome to Tom Thumb Pharmacy—where your medicine might take a little detour before reaching you.’

2. A delivery driver pulled up outside Tom Thumb Pharmacy one afternoon and wrinkled his nose at an odd scent wafting from the alley behind the store. Curious, he peered around the corner and saw a small, furry creature frantically mixing bottles on the counter inside. Turns out, it was just a neighborhood squirrel helping himself to some cough syrup samples. The delivery driver laughed it off, thinking it was pretty cute. From then on, whenever anyone ordered medicine with a funny flavor, they’d joke that ‘Tom Thumb Pharmacy must be doing their inventory again!’

3. A little girl walked into Tom Thumb Pharmacy with her mom. As she approached the counter, she pointed excitedly at an old bottle on display. ‘Mommy,’ she whispered, ‘what’s that funny-smelling medicine for?’ The pharmacist smiled and leaned down conspiratorially. 'That's a special remedy,' he said in a hushed voice. 'It's supposed to make you grow taller if you drink it every night.' The little girl giggled and ran off to join her mother, while the pharmacist discreetly rolled his eyes—because everyone knows it's just an old bottle of bubble-gum flavored cough syrup!'

4. A delivery driver pulled up outside Tom Thumb Pharmacy one day, only to discover an old umbrella stuck in the car door. He shook it off, but later that night, while unpacking boxes, he found another identical umbrella inside the shipment. Confused and amused, the delivery driver checked with his colleagues. The next morning, a neighbor passing by noticed yet another umbrella leaning against the pharmacy’s wall. Turns out, someone had been leaving umbrellas there for years—just nobody ever bothered to mention it. A regular finally chuckled, ‘It seems ol’ Tom has quite the habit of collecting lost umbrellas!’