Maggie Kay
12-12-2006, 05:13 PM
I'm standing in line at the Post Office and the lady next to me sees the new quilt pattern stamps in the show case and comments on how pretty they are to me. Trying to be social, I say "Yes, they are really nice. Quilting is all the rage now-a-days. They have these new cutting boards and cutting wheels that are better than scissors".
She then looks me, right in the eye, and says, "I'll give you a tip, you should go to the Goodwill thrift store on Saturday when they have their 'everything for a $1' sale and buy a bunch of dresses and cut them up for quilting fabric." Now, I didn't say I was quilting however, coincidently, I am just starting to quilt. I just started this past weekend. She could have inferred from my comments that I did quilting.
It was another of those kind of comments that had me wheeling. At first, I thought she was telling me to buy dresses at Goodwill. I haven't done that... yet but have window shopped at consignment stores. Imagine the most uptight guy imaginable, then adorn him with fancy jeweled earrings and what do you have? A walking contradiction, me. Someday, I may just blurt out my inner monologue and say, "Oh yes, I love dresses or that love knitting" . I could talk about a dozen of other femme things near and dear to me but are no-no's for a guy to want or do....
Right, I know the correct answer, "Who cares, say and do what you want". For a person as bound up as me, that would be a miracle. Then again, I have seen miracles so ...who knows??? The earth didn't stop rotating when I got my ears pierced this summer, but according to my mind, I expected the media to greet me at the door of Claire's ... Way too sensitive, dude...
Kay
She then looks me, right in the eye, and says, "I'll give you a tip, you should go to the Goodwill thrift store on Saturday when they have their 'everything for a $1' sale and buy a bunch of dresses and cut them up for quilting fabric." Now, I didn't say I was quilting however, coincidently, I am just starting to quilt. I just started this past weekend. She could have inferred from my comments that I did quilting.
It was another of those kind of comments that had me wheeling. At first, I thought she was telling me to buy dresses at Goodwill. I haven't done that... yet but have window shopped at consignment stores. Imagine the most uptight guy imaginable, then adorn him with fancy jeweled earrings and what do you have? A walking contradiction, me. Someday, I may just blurt out my inner monologue and say, "Oh yes, I love dresses or that love knitting" . I could talk about a dozen of other femme things near and dear to me but are no-no's for a guy to want or do....
Right, I know the correct answer, "Who cares, say and do what you want". For a person as bound up as me, that would be a miracle. Then again, I have seen miracles so ...who knows??? The earth didn't stop rotating when I got my ears pierced this summer, but according to my mind, I expected the media to greet me at the door of Claire's ... Way too sensitive, dude...
Kay