There is a thrift store a few minutes away from our place, that I frequent pretty often for various and sundry things. More often then not there is some form of either entertainment, or irritation, caused by the people shopping there.
Today it was mostly irritation~ There was an old guy there arguing with the Mexican lady that works there, in that way that old guys can only argue- loudly and self-righteously. He was pissed, and I mean,
fucking pissed, because she had been speaking *gasp* Mexican to a Mexican customer. She was just like, "Calm down, you can talk to my manager if you want", and he's just going on and on how he was a war veteran and that he supports AMERICA THE GREATEST COUNTRY EVER and that when people are talking in languages he doesn't know, well then they might be terrorists!
He continued on some other tangents but I was distracted by the older black lady next to me (we had been watching this go down) tsking and shaking her head and saying that people who couldn't speak English they should go back to their country and be poor and use up their country's resources, so on and so forth.
The last thing I ever really want to do is get into fights with old people at the thrift store, and I had definitely reached my quota of human interaction by this point, so I just went on my way through the store trying to avoid everyone.
However, I did get to hear the best question though, posed to a parent from their son;
"What's on the other side of the universe?"
But they were walking away from where I was so I never found out what was at the end of the universe :( It didn't seem like his mom had an answer though. Anyway, thanks kid for leaving me wondering!
[14:53] normal: Wow, that's an awesome question. And the correct answer is a lot of space, did they have one.
[14:54] emiko: it didn't seem like it, i was expecting to hear heaven at least, but they were walking away so i don't know if he ever got an answer
[14:56] normal: Oh god, that answer would have been great to hear. Then it would be fun to explain that since the universe is made up giant number of light years across and nothing can travel faster than light when you died it would take another made up giant number of years at least before you could get to heaven. Meaning you would spend more time getting there than you ever spent alive, and wasn't that a cruel trick by god.
[14:56] normal: And then when dad got all upset smile and tell him that science and faith can live happily together.
Racist assholes and perplexing questions aside, I did have a lucky day thrifting. I went to find some things for my outfit for
Ritual, found a Betsy Johnson top for $3, and picked up a bunch of awesome '70s - early '90s patterns for 25¢ each~ Mostly dresses and skirts, I can't wait to get into them :)