Today, since coming home from college I have nothing productive to do, I decided to join my mother in a foray to the wondrous hyper-center of American consumerism: the mall. That's not to say I don't like the mall. We just got some really good stores. (oh meh gawd Free People AND Sephora?) Anyway, my goal for this expedition into the land of gazillion calorie pretzels and stores that don't want "uncool" customers was to procure for myself a hoop for my recent cartilage piercing. I'm a wuss and didn't get the hoop right off the bat when it was actually pierced because I knew it would hurt too badly. Little did I know that there is a small market for cartilage hoops that are not hot pink with devilish points on the ends, or black and reminiscent of angry teenagers. My relatively preppy mother and borderline hippie/actually-just-unstylish me ventured into Hot Topic. That store is a completely different world. There were cases of "body jewelry" or "BJ" (hmm...) taller than me, next to walls wallpapered with t-shirts of bands with angst-y names. There were many other objects in the store that I was too scared to investigate closely. I don't mean to say that I wouldn't want anything that Hot Topic sells, or that I look down on anyone who shops there. Those people just intimidate me so severely that when I walk in there with my bun and my Toms, I feel as though I am a member of another tribe that is very clearly trespassing.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Hello!
So everyone knows the first post of any blog will contain nothing substantial. Why would you walk up to someone without introducing yourself and tell them a intriguing, entertaining, and insightful, yet unexpected and perhaps unwelcome story? I'm not trying to just walk into the internet and start blabbering into Space without letting Space know who I am! Wait...I kind of am doing that. Let's get acquainted.
I'm Caroline.
This is me.
With my biggest and brightest smile.
...and squinty-est eyes...
That's more normal.
Anyway, I just finished my first year of college in Ohio, and I'm headed to Massachusetts soon to work as a waitress in a tourist-packed seaside town. That always proves for some interesting encounters. I'm hoping to use this blog to post about some of those that I find worthy of you lovely readers, as well as other interesting anecdotes and awkward situations. I assure you there will be plenty awkward situations with me. And I shall write about them for your enjoyment.
You can look forward to it.
