To start off, my mom is a chronic thrift store shopper. Who could blame her though? She picks up cheap items, 99% of which are books. She has a thriving home business of selling items (again, mostly books) on
Amazon.com and Alibris.com. Sometimes, however, when she is at the thrift store, she shops for clothes for me. Usually when she comes home and says, "I've picked out some clothes I thought you might like", I usually say, "Well, did you get me anything girly this time?" and the answer is always no. Well, today she comes home with a bag of clothes and begins pulling them out one by one, holding them up, and asking me how I like them. They were all medium men's shirts, but not overtly masculine, which is pretty much the norm... until she got to the end of the bag. She pulled out this brown and black women's suit jacket with SHOULDER PADS and no skirt with it. The 80's called, they want their jacket back.
My thoughts: "Mom, I love you dearly, and I appreciate you thinking about and acknowledging my feminine side, but I simply cannot wear that in public." Now, I'm not a big shopper of trendy stores in the mall (although, I love hot topic), generally I go for what's new at Wal-Mart. Their stuff is in style enough for me... at a good price. I may even be able to find something a few years old in a thrift store myself, but I can't go back two decades.
I told her not to buy me any clothes unless I was with her. Maybe she'll listen. BTW, her feelings were not hurt, she's used to my pickiness... I think it's more funny to her than anything.
