Ok, I went shopping yesterday. Not the kind of shopping where you are looking in the mirror asking yourself why you stopped running on the treadmill, but rather, the kind of shopping that you set aside a few hours for. The kind of shopping where you put on some cute shoes, put a headband on, and pretend to have disposable income at places you shouldn't really even look at. I went to Nob Hill--one of my favorite places to walk around, browse, imagine myself buying over-priced furniture, etc. I went used-book shopping and picked up a few memoirs that I have already devoured, grabbed a frappucino at the local 'bucks, and sauntered my way through the various shops, looking for a passport cover. Ok, so if you aren't hip to the passport cover, it is quite the cute unneccessary accessory. It's a little leather (or other various textile) book that you slip your passport into to protect it from...I don't know...your evil wallet zipper that may shred your passport. It's a total Paris Hilton kind of thing. Nobody needs it. So, Nob Hill is FULL of useless crap like this, so I figured that I was GOLDEN! I mean, really, whenever I feel like wasting a few dollars, I head into some of these shops.
Over-priced stationery? You got it.
Breath mints that are religiously themed with clever titles like, "God's Mint for You" You are totally in the right place. Outfits that are not only over-priced, but only fit people sizes 1-3-5? You get the idea. So, I find some adorable luggage tags in a little store that I like getting silly cards from and I ask if they have any passport covers. Negatory. In fact, they ask where they can get such a novel thing--because they would LOOOOVE to get some. At this point, I am getting to the point where I am seeing the passport cover as the holy grail and I am more the evil German wench than Indiana Jones. I MUST GET IT! NOW! So I go into a store that I really cringe in entering because of some emotional baggage that I don't need cute tags for and I ask the boy at the counter if they have any in. He says no, they do not, but they have some REALLY CUTE luggage tags. And they are on sale! I tell him that I am no longer looking for luggage tags, I have recently purchased some. As in, ten minutes prior. He tells me that I could return them and buy the ones at this store. I nicely tell him that I really like the ones I just bought and that they have witty (debatable) sayings on them. Now, we are having this banter, and all is well. Then he says something that really shook me to my high-heeled fun-day-of-shopping core. "Boys don't really like witty. They go for the cute." I WISH I were making this up. But alas, I AM NOT! I've been chewing on this sentence for the past day, trying to peel away the layers of meaning. Is he saying that he only likes cute luggage tags? Is he saying that girls in general should not be witty because guys do not find that attractive? I don't get it. ==== Anyhow, I ended up buying a FABULOUS passport cover for a reasonable price of twelve dollars, but I wish I understood, fully, what that shop assisstant said. Until I get it, I think I will stay far away from that store, as I should always do. ==== PS, does everyone know that I'm going to Greece in exactly 18 days? No? Well, now you do;) |