Friday, June 16, 2023

Rainbows

More Gay Pride Rainbows 

Update on the rainbow displays I helped Ass't Man put together. I often talk about the store in terms of drugs and poverty, but a lot of hip healthy happy young things shop there too---like this young woman who walked in the door just as I was photographing the end caps.
"Oh, you match the orange," I said, "you can be part of the display!"

And she instantly assumed an Instagram-compatible pose---I bet she's been posing for social media since she was a tot!
She reminds me of one of Linda Sue's wooden Polish dolls.
If I post photos of strangers in the store, I usually block their faces--and I always do when they're kids––but this young person was a consenting adult.

When I was a new blogger fifteen years ago, there was concern about posting children's photos--for safety reasons, as well as issues of children being too young to give informed consent.
But for many grownups, it's no longer an issue--it's become one of our New Norms, I guess .

Here are the other two rainbow end caps. Anything exciting on them has already or will soon be snatched up---those space-era star-pattern plates in with the greens, for instance, and, top-center of the blues, the vintage Hall bread pan with lid (underpriced at $3.99--anything vintage with an unbroken matching lid is gold).
I thought about getting both of these myself, but---neh, I am tired of bringing stuff home. In fact, I'm starting to take stuff back.

OK, I hope you have a 😌 good day, everyone, or a not-too-bad one!

3 comments:

  1. Great to see you with your sister...and you had a lovely mum, whatever her problems.

    Yes, THAT relative.....nuff said!!

    I like your shop arranging...and your matching customer!!

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  2. Ay! My relationships with all three of my brothers is fucked. One is less fucked than the other two. One does not speak to me at all. Hasn't since our mother died. The third one lives far, far away and every time I try to become friends with him again, he does or says something that cuts my soul into shreds. So I am glad that you and your sister have made things better between you. Sorry about your sister-in-law. I wonder what your sister sees in her. Ah, we are all so different.
    Your mother was truly lovely.

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  3. The polish doll is perfect in the display, shiny bright!
    I get it about SIL- family complex- Dennis said that I looked like my mother the other night and he did not mean it in a complementary way. I was not insulted as he intended, rather felt like you felt- "thank you" I carry her with me. Your SIL probably has unfinished business with her past, I reckon, carrying her baggage around and dumping it on others to tote for her. EFF that. Too bad your sister did not show up for you.Her loss.

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