Friday, February 18, 2005
Knit a stitch
As Holland Village's retail shops wound down business for the day, I did my first, and possibly last, brisk walk around the mall since I came back home. I saw a brown cloth tote bag. It was big enough to store a ring file and a bit more, had rectangles running diagonally down in a simple geometric formation, with bronze and silver sequins sewn over some of the rectangles. Nothing much, right?The salesgirl came up to me (the lone vulnerable victim thinking window-shopping at 730 in the evening was retail therapy and nothing more) and proclaimed merrily in a long string of words possibly well-rehearsed by now.
I asked, Do you only have this in brown? hoping I could make it easy for me to escape from the evil salespeep-will-promote-anythingeventhebad syndrome because I had already decided not to consider buying it before she even came scurrying over. Only reason I was there was because my itchy fingers got the better of me.
Oh, the bag costs (checks) $89. It is the only piece and comes in only one colour, brown. So that's why it costs this much. It's very exclusive so it's worth it. (smile smile, sweet smile)
Oh okay (smile, talk about predictable yet fallacious arguments) thanks so much.
lux at 11:09 pm