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  • Walking advertising

    I have never understood the fascination of advertising for a company on your t-shirt or bag. It’s very 80’s & made a huge comeback in Scandinavia. The t-shirt of choice is a long since began manufacturing in China. But it’s an American label.

    Or wearing a shirt from a place you’ve never been. All my shirts are places I have visited or given lots of money too. I don’t understand the obsession of wearing an American label now obviously made in Bangladesh or China.

    Last year I wore a shirt from Maui northshore in town & had some bratty kid try to tell me I had Never been there. I was tempted to tell his parents that they had raised a rude kid, but karma will take care of that.

    I also no longer understand the fixation on the US, maybe 20 years ago, but not now. It’s not this amazing place anymore, people are in dire situations all over the country & the government is hobbling on it’s legs. No, I am glad I left but feel bad for those who have stayed.

    So why wear something that now symbolizes outsourced manufacturing? It just means you’re a follower of fast fashion which is the biggest landfill filler in the world. You don’t respect what little of the planet we’re living on is left or if you’ll have a planet earth in the future.

    I believe in slow fashion & barely buy new clothes anymore. I believe in the garment should be made in Europe where in certain countries the conditions for manufacturing are Very strict. Maybe that’s why I feel soo guilty over a pair of bra’s I bought a few weeks back. When I saw the country was Bangladesh I got upset.

    Why you ask because the conditions are deplorable & in-humane in Bangladesh. Garment slave factories burn down all the time & most of the time the garment slaves have no way out so they die in the fires.

    I don’t want to be part of the problem, I want to be the solution. Hence, I do my utmost not to purchase from companies that still think it’s acceptable to manufacture there.

    Are you a fast or slow fashion? Do you read the labels on garments in the store? Do you ask Why?

  • Watching the good ol’days

    Here we are in the middle of 2021, Britain is a mess with the Delta variant of COVID 19 & no one is following the 3ft/1 meter rule anymore. I would not be surprised if we have a 4th wave next month.

    That’s why I’m watching the good ol’days with the RHW of NY from a COVID free time. When things were simpler & you could hug people without worrying. When NYC was bustling with people. It was simpler & safer time in NYC.

    Now, I am not sure, I’d go there to visit as crime is on the rise for the first time in 20 years. The Delta variant is creeping upward & so is the muggings on the subways. It’s sad that COVID has changed a city I know like the back of my hand.

    Hence, reminiscing about the good old days on TV is okay. Since I am still waiting for my second shot of the vaccine; I may as well stay home & watch a city I love.

  • Summertime

    The other week I had to go to a part of town I had never been to before to get my haircut. I ended up walking down to the highway & having a short wait for a bus. Something I was both happy & excited about.

    When I get on the bus it’s standing room only & within a short time of standing on the bus I was harassed by an overweight blond 20 something & her friends who where sisters.

    They began mocking me openly in front of other people on the bus. They where immature & began pointing & didn’t end till I exited the bus in town. I noticed when I got off that several other people sitting there also got off in solidarity with me.

    I walked over to my café & sat there trying to not cry over their imbecilic behavior. I found them later when I was walking to the bus & someone had gotten to them. One of the sisters expression showed me that someone had.

    I am glad a stranger went to bat for me after I got off the bus. It showed that they heard what they were saying & didn’t let them get away with it. For mean, ugly people like that usually gets their karma handed to them.

    Something I strongly believe. I won’t be riding that bus into town again & if I see the ugly fat chick & I am sure her comeuppance has already happened. Karma is swift that way.