| It's been a long time since I rock and rolled |
[Mar. 23rd, 2004|08:29 pm] |
Today I tried to have a conversation with a war vet in a trenchcoat and it went nowhere. It was this old dude with a baseball hat that had all of the gold braiding around it, and an unbent brim and it said "US VET" Also, he had really long nose hair AND an ass-old trenchcoat. I couldn't tell if his glasses were intentionally yellow or just tinted from relentless nocotine....Anyway, the irony of it all was that he wanted to buy Gary Null's Power Aging, which made me laugh a little. He started off the whole process wrong by coming to the cash register when I was the only one standing there and looked around in the most space cadet way possible while laughing with his whistley lungs and not listening to what I was saying to him. Then, I pointed to the section upstairs as I explained that I was the only person on the register, as I couldn't leave. He replied with "Hauuuuuuuh?" and looked around some more. I then told him to go upstairs and make a quick right to the health section. He nods in an irritated way because I wasn't going to go through the trouble to drive him in my ambulance to take him up there myself. I then watched him totter up the escalator when he disreguards anything that I told him and turns directly left.
Anyway, this was pretty much my day at Barnes and Noble...times 5. I think the theme of the day was " I'm looking for a Spanish author who writes books that are a hundred and fifty pages long, but I forgot the name" or "I'm really interested in Satan" or "Can you tell me about traditional Scottish costume, my girfriend is having a Rennaisaince wedding, and I'm making the dress...." over and over and over and over.
I was sitting in the breakroom for my last twenty minute break and somehow everyone started talking about wedding rings (no, we're not sorority girls).. Natalie and I were talking about how crappy the Diamond Mining business is and then Susie got upset because she had a huge diamond on her finger. Mike and Marcia are at least original and made their own wedding rings (no, not of twist ties) Marcia is a Jewler ( in the most nonconventional way) and made rings out of some Asian metal mix that looks really sweet. Anyway, this conversation started out with the evils of Wal-Mart and I said " Hey you know who could possibly be worse than Wal-Mart? DaBeers and then it all exploded like a party full of housewives eating bon-bons reading Mattie Stepanak poems.
Then Steve walks in and told me that one of his jelly bracelets broke. I told him that that's what happens when you shop and Hot Topic. He admitted that it wasn't Hot Topic, but Claire's that he purchased them in 1999 and has been wearing them ever since. He says that jelly bracelets have to be a certain thickness to be cool, and his were cool because they were just thin enough without looking gay. ( I still told him that he was gay) Then he told me that when all of his jelly bracelets die, he's going to kill himself. I told him "Wow, kinda like those "wish bracelets". I don't think anyone thought that was funny.
Anyway, I'm back in the hood and up to no good...Or starting horrible perspective drawings, ( you pick) |
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