Luciana
Skeptical Carioca
I've just arrived from lunch and I'm still incensed with what has just happened.
Somebody (ok, a woman) told me there was many good sales in a nearby shopping mall, located in the first floors of a business building. Being somewhat stressed out, I decided to take a stroll there after having lunch, if only to cool off a bit.
I saw a shop that looked expensive and trendy, the kind that has overtly gay people as attendants. So I entered, only because there was a skirt that seemed beautiful and with the right price.
Then I noticed that the shop was divided in two sessions: size 36 and size 38. I don't know about those international conversions, so to make it easy, let's say that 36 is the minimum size for adult women, and 38 is the next in line. I wear 38 but I prefer 40 most of the time, because I don't like clothes too tight around the hips.
Now I was stumped. I asked for help and the gay guy with 1,000 piercings came, and he was thrilled to see I was holding that skirt because it's oooh so elegant! I thought I was missing something, maybe there was another section I couldn't see, so I asked: 36 and 38, only? And he answered:
"oh yeah, our clothes are only for veeery beautiful people, honey! And that skirt is going to look awesome on you! Now let me show you the perfect shirt to go..."
While he rumaged throught the stands, I stood in the middle of the shop, flabbergasted. WHAT? What did he say? I think that the whole stress of the poured forth when he offered me a shirt and I calmly said, not censoring my words.
"this shirt is horrible, I wouldn't want that for free".
I raised my eyes to look at his, and I thought that he was expecting the end of the joke. What a moron. Now I was angry:
"and you know what? You are very ugly. That girl back there is... horrid! What a freak show this shop is! I'd be able to pay so as not to have to wear anything from here!"
Now that I read it, it sounds incredily funny.
Maybe it was. But I was serious. It's their right to sell any sized they want, it's also my right to disdain them for that. What next, should I feel honored to be considered fit for being their client?
Not to mention that up to size 38 is totally ridiculous, you can actually wear 40 and still be thin. But even if you're not 40...
Guess I'm getting mad again.
Sorry for the rant!
Somebody (ok, a woman) told me there was many good sales in a nearby shopping mall, located in the first floors of a business building. Being somewhat stressed out, I decided to take a stroll there after having lunch, if only to cool off a bit.
I saw a shop that looked expensive and trendy, the kind that has overtly gay people as attendants. So I entered, only because there was a skirt that seemed beautiful and with the right price.
Then I noticed that the shop was divided in two sessions: size 36 and size 38. I don't know about those international conversions, so to make it easy, let's say that 36 is the minimum size for adult women, and 38 is the next in line. I wear 38 but I prefer 40 most of the time, because I don't like clothes too tight around the hips.
Now I was stumped. I asked for help and the gay guy with 1,000 piercings came, and he was thrilled to see I was holding that skirt because it's oooh so elegant! I thought I was missing something, maybe there was another section I couldn't see, so I asked: 36 and 38, only? And he answered:
"oh yeah, our clothes are only for veeery beautiful people, honey! And that skirt is going to look awesome on you! Now let me show you the perfect shirt to go..."
While he rumaged throught the stands, I stood in the middle of the shop, flabbergasted. WHAT? What did he say? I think that the whole stress of the poured forth when he offered me a shirt and I calmly said, not censoring my words.
"this shirt is horrible, I wouldn't want that for free".
I raised my eyes to look at his, and I thought that he was expecting the end of the joke. What a moron. Now I was angry:
"and you know what? You are very ugly. That girl back there is... horrid! What a freak show this shop is! I'd be able to pay so as not to have to wear anything from here!"
Now that I read it, it sounds incredily funny.



Sorry for the rant!