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PDaughter, shown here twisting my arm. |
We ended up at our local ginormous regional outlet mall.
It’s shopping plus exercise. I mean, how do they even make a building that big?
It’s so big it has two pretzel
places.
Anyway, PDaughter and I both tend to get a little
shell-shocked when we go to this mall. There’s just so much stuff. We know we
can’t buy all of it, but it’s so hard to choose from the sheer tonnage of
consumer goods that we typically go home sore-footed and empty-handed. We are
the not-so-coveted Indecisive and Mostly Broke Anyway demographic.
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A girl can dream. |
But yesterday I decided I wanted cute new tops. And of
course, once PDaughter got wind of what I wanted, she wasn’t going to come away
without cute new tops of her own. Her sense of fair play is very well
developed. Also, she likes when I buy her stuff.
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Like mother, like daughter. |
So we went in to this huge store that had acres of clothing.
We had to wade past the clearance racks of puffy coats, which apparently some
buyer somewhere thought were going to be the Big Thing this winter. Judging by
the number of puffy coasts being sold off at please-for-God’s-sake-buy-me
prices, this buyer is now a sock inspector at a low-end underwear factory
somewhere.
Fortunately, there were also a gazillion cute tops. I quickly picked out two and then stopped myself. Because when it comes to shopping, I tend to count one, two, forty. Forty was incompatible with eating for the rest of the month, so two it was. One was a little teal number with a drapey collar, and the other was a more casual olive-green Eddie Bauer top.
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Why yes, it does make me look exactly like Bar Rafaeli. Thanks for asking. |
Whatever. We started going through the tops in that section. Of course, I vetoed
everything that was see-through, backless, or had “SEXY” written across the
butt. I’m not a prude; it’s just that the girl doesn’t have enough butt to fit
a four-letter word. Me, I could put President Obama’s most recent inauguration
address across my butt and still have room for Meryl Streep’s last Oscar
acceptance speech. I won’t, but I could.
PDaughter found two very cute tops of her own that were both
kid- and mom-approved. But as we were waiting to check out, a strange look came
across her face. I asked her what was wrong.
“We got the same colors,” she said, horror-stricken.
I looked at the four items in my hands. Sure enough,
although PDaughter had chosen two teenage-girl tops and I had picked two
middle-aged (but very cool and stylish) mom tops, we each had chosen one that
was teal and one that was olive green.
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I'm sure this is what she saw. |
She decided to stick with what she had bought, even though
they were same colors I was getting. But she did fix me with a solemn gaze and
say, “We can never wear these at the same time.”
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Because this, as far as she's concerned. |
I mean, who wants to look like a 7th grader?
That's awesome. Mine is only almost 6 and she LIKES to look like me. She even forces (yeah, I know) me to dress in the colors she chooses sometimes. And yeah. I do it. For silence. ;>
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