rhombchick said:
I was in the big smoke the other day and stopped at a new age shop and had a gander....
Many eye rolls were made.... at my going into the store that is.... then again when I didn't walk out empty handed...
<cackle> Recently I, my daughter (who doesn't disapprove of Tarot, but disapproves on principle of my spending money on anything other than *her*), and my ex (not her father or the deck-destroyer) were wandering along through a beachside suburb, the two of them chatting a bit ahead of me, and I passed a window of Pretty Things. Normally I can ignore this window - it usually just has overpriced but cheap suncatchers and things in it.That day I looked, went in, came back out when the shop-lady was inside the display, pointed to an object, and went back in.
The two people ahead of me stopped and looked in total bemusement. I *loathe* any kind of shopping, and neither of them, who both know me very well, have *ever* seen me do that before.
I knew I couldn't buy it. If I'd come out of there with a parcel in my hands, I'd have never been able to live it down. So I put it on lay-by, paying the whole amount rather than the deposit, and said I'd pick it up the following day (when I could be alone). I came out carrying nothing. My daughter checked my bag - nothing.
for the next hour or two they kept carrying on about how I'd actually:
a) looked at something in a shop window,
and
b) pointed it out to someone after entering the shop.
On a completely unrelated matter, I am now the proud owner of a lump of Butterscotch-jade, which has been partially carved to represent a reclining (fat) buddha resting in an alcove of native, unhewn stone.
