I'll take the items on the top shelf, and send my driver to pick it up later.
Right next to the fancy electronics store is a fancy things store. Pistachios is an arty shop with glass things, jewelry and other things I can only aspire to afford. A shop for those of top-tier Republican, off-shore bank accounts socio-economic status who buy things without asking what it costs or bothering to look at the price tag just because they can. For months, walking from the train station to work, there was this red glass bowl on display in the right storefront window. I don't know how functional it was, if it was dishwasher or microwafe safe (which is a MUST for me). I don't know what it cost because the price tag was so teeny, I could not make it out. It was so beautiful and then it was...gone... Replaced by an enormous glass apple.
It is a lovely red apple but I wanted the bowl. The red apple has been moved recently and now where it originally sat, there are other...um...things. I have no idea what they are supposed to be. On the other side of the door, in the left storefront window, there are massive glass ornaments - the size of which would go on Godzilla's Christmas Tree. I've never actually made it into the store when it was open to see what other lovely things they have that I can't afford. Why spend $2,000 on a piece of art when you could feed so many people at a shelter with that, or buy clothes for residents in an emergency home for battered women? If I had the disposable income, I probably could not in good conscience spend that kind of $$ on a bowl I can't eat out of (or even if I could eat out of it). I could not pay more than $50 for art of that sort. Any more than that seems wasteful.
Heck, when you're broke, spending more than $5 for anything you don't need seems a waste. That $5 can be the difference between eating something and not eating for a day. Stores on (and just off) the Magnificent Mile could feed the entire City of Chicago with what they make in a day. Stores like Pistachios, Cartier, Tiffany, Gucci, etc. just seem so unnecessary.
But, I would not turn down a lovely bauble from such unnecessary stores if ever presented with such a thing. Because I secretly wish to be that which I hate. Paris Hilton. With more money than sense and nothing to do with my time but embarrass myself and every woman on the planet. And spend gobs of money I didn't earn.
It is a lovely red apple but I wanted the bowl. The red apple has been moved recently and now where it originally sat, there are other...um...things. I have no idea what they are supposed to be. On the other side of the door, in the left storefront window, there are massive glass ornaments - the size of which would go on Godzilla's Christmas Tree. I've never actually made it into the store when it was open to see what other lovely things they have that I can't afford. Why spend $2,000 on a piece of art when you could feed so many people at a shelter with that, or buy clothes for residents in an emergency home for battered women? If I had the disposable income, I probably could not in good conscience spend that kind of $$ on a bowl I can't eat out of (or even if I could eat out of it). I could not pay more than $50 for art of that sort. Any more than that seems wasteful.
Heck, when you're broke, spending more than $5 for anything you don't need seems a waste. That $5 can be the difference between eating something and not eating for a day. Stores on (and just off) the Magnificent Mile could feed the entire City of Chicago with what they make in a day. Stores like Pistachios, Cartier, Tiffany, Gucci, etc. just seem so unnecessary.
But, I would not turn down a lovely bauble from such unnecessary stores if ever presented with such a thing. Because I secretly wish to be that which I hate. Paris Hilton. With more money than sense and nothing to do with my time but embarrass myself and every woman on the planet. And spend gobs of money I didn't earn.
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