Calkins: The jolliest place in Memphis this season? It might be this UPS Store.
Thermon Knighten, middle, owns the UPS store on Exeter Road in Germantown, where he will perform an occasional marriage. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
Frazzled by this week before Christmas?
Beaten down by the demands of the season?
Then gather round, my fellow Memphians, while I tell you of a place where the holiday spirit abounds.
The Germantown UPS Store.
Yes, I really mean it.
The UPS Store on Exeter Road, next to the Firestone Complete Auto Care.
“You come in, and you feel happy,” said Vicki Tickle, a customer who stopped by the other day.
“I love this place,” said Cindy Buck, another customer.
“He is the best,” said Dot Beatty, yet another customer.
You sensing the merry trend?
The he Beatty was referring to is Thermon Knighten, who bought the franchise in 2008 and has turned it into the happiest place to launch packages this side of the North Pole.
How happy is it?
Every year, 40 or 50 couples get married in the store.
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