I totally think the heat is affecting people. Today at that store...okay, I'll set the stage: it is pretty cramped in there, with racks all along the very long walls and the middle. There was this woman looking through the racks, making her way right to left, and I was going the opposite way, left to right. Granted, I started looking after her, but there was a good deal of tundra between us when I started. Maybe ten feet!
Then, I'm, you know, riffling through the racks, making my way down, and I notice her just to my right, standing still as a statue, and sort of a step back from the rack. And I feel her eyes on me, burning into my neck, and I'm like, is something wrong? And she goes, You're looking right where I was going to look! And she was super mad. Usually at this store, you just swap positions, but she seemed really to think I was messing with her. So I said, look, I'll skip down. And she said, No, you can look there, and I'll just wait here. That didn't sound very fun to me, so I skipped this whole section of rack.
So later, she's disappeared, and I revisit the section I skipped, and just then, she comes around a circular dress rack right behind it, and we're yet again on a collision course. I was completely in her way again. It was sort of funny, because, she really did think I was messing with her. I do think it's the heat!!
My skirt is quite flash, don't you think?
I don't know if I'm using that word right. I am reading Meredith Duran's amazing, glorious and riveting A Lady's Lesson in Scandal right now. I am richly enjoying every aspect of it. Especially the details of the working girl life, and the working girl slang. I love when the heroine says a thing is 'flash' like, oh this is a bit of flash, or, that skirt is real flash.
I was thinking that use of flash belonged specifically to that time period, but then yesterday DH and I were working out to Adam and the Ants and Adam used the word flash just like that in a song. Was Adam using it as an older word, or is it a modern UK usage? Do people walk around calling things flash? I think the song was about pirates, one of Adam's main obsessions. Maybe he was using the word flash as pirate lingo. Is this a word of pirates and guttersnipes of old, or what? UK friends, please advise.
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Bows down to your use of Adam Ant in a blog post.
Thanks sweetie! Isn't that an awesome photo?
I'm a child of the 80's, so rock on!
Flash... you're using it right! It was certainly a word that was used quite a lot not all that long ago, but I can't remember the last time I heard it recently.
Marg: Thank you! So, not too long ago, as in, maybe in the 80's, but not so much now? Which would be too bad, really.
That skirt is adorable :-)
Statistically, crime always goes up in heat waves so you are not far off base. But in her case she just sounds like a freak!
I can't believe a woodland scene skirt even exists LOL
Tez: Thank you!
Pam: Good point. Yes, right. Fuses are just shorter.
Wow. That skirt is... wow. O.o
What store were you at?!
LUH that skirt. Totally flash, as well as- in the words of pretty much the entire cast of the *insert big sniffles* sadly-defunct "Firefly"- SHINY! :D
I'm surprised she didn't battle you for that skirt!
LOVE the skirt!
Actually, that is a common occurrence in thrift stores. It's called staking your territory. lol Some people who frequent a certain store will get pretty dang bitchy if they think you are encroaching on their territory. I am a master at standing my grd and have pissed off many a thriftier who thought their death star laser eyes would scare me into leaving their rack.
Chris: Everyday people!
Glamkitty - oooh, right. Shiny. Sob.
lisabea: she would have GONE DOWN!
Tori - hah! The expert weighs in! That is so funny - staking her territory. Maybe I will rethink my policy on caving to the death star stare!
The skirt is wonderful and very you.
Flash is absolutely a word of that precise meaning. Not terribly common but often used in a sort of grudging-admiration way ("You flash bastard!" e.g. to one spending a lot of money on fripperies, woodland-scene skirts, par example)
I totally heart the skirt Carolyn. Regarding the usage of 'flash'. Although not english I do live in the UK and don't think it is anything other than part of Adam Ant's wacky 80's persona.
That skirt of yours is sure to be a hit at parties - what a conversation starter.
And I really think the heat is affecting all of us in an angry and paranoid way. We've experienced the high 90s here. Pair this with a combo of air/noise pollution, humidity and peeps with an already bad attitude, well, it's been nightmarish here. Today, I was patiently waiting in line to give a tip to a service person, and the woman in front of me took umbrage that I chose to stand behind her! Um, that's what a line is supposed to look like!
Jo: So, it would be flash? I thought flash would denote something more upscale. Very interesting!
tvted: A dissenter! Well, all I know is that ever since I put their picture up there, an Adam Ant song has been running through my head.
Kylie: I had to laugh at that. Standing behind somebody in a line!! :P Yikes.
Don't be alarmed, but I think your skirt is a scene from the TV game Big Buck Hunter Pro. Nice!
That Adam and the Ants photo is awesome!
OMG! i so want that skirt!!!!! if you EVER decide to get rid of it- you must- i repeat you must-send it to me. the curtains probably hung in someones cabin. love it! possible trade for some hand knitted fingerless mitts- perfect for typing with this winter when your apartment is no longer hot:)
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