Several hours later one woke up once more, to stumble out in
the search of coffee and breakfast before tackling the joy of laundry. That joy
was short lived as He needed to nip out to the comic shop. It seemed that some
little faction of His army was incomplete. You know just as an observation miniatures
(affectionately known as minis) may be small, but they sure seem to take up a
lot of space... most every flat surface at this stage.
It is probably worth mentioning also that nipping out here
has a very different meaning to most anyone anywhere else in the world. The
comic shop is clear across town... a drive of over an hour and some 40 odd km
each way. Needless to say when we arrived it turned out to be a long visit...
it will be oooh at least a fortnight before He goes back... rolls eyes quietly.
The time did allow one to wander round listlessly looking at comics and
merchandising.
The shop is run by some level nine geeks... they all have
different areas of speciality. Unfortunately not one of them majors in cleaning
and everything is covered in dust. To the point that rather like an archaeological
dig, you can estimate the age of the stock by the depth of the dust on it. It
makes shopping singularly unpleasant for a woman... none of the males in the
place seem to notice the issues at all as they paw through boxes of comics and
cards and minis in the quest to find that one needful thing.
In fact one suspects that it is one of the subtle ways of
keeping women out of what is generally a predominately males space. Gods know
that it has taken several years for them to get used to talking to one small
slave without twitching, shuffling or blinking nervously. The only one that
seems to have well developed social skills is the senior staff member and one
suspects that is because he... peers around and whispers... self medicates. On
the upside of all of this, in amongst the rack of new t-shirts, one did find
this little gem.
It seemed a kindness to take it home... she was set for a
very lonely existence otherwise J
3 comments:
Our local comic/game shop is much more friendly, and less dusty. The owner is a friend and he always talks to me as a person, not as an "eek-girl". I'm sure you know what I mean. Plus, he has a shop dog, who is very darling. We talk dogs.
I love your picture, too! Nice shirt.
An eek-girl is exactly it... honestly you would get less twitching walking into the mens bathrooms rolls eyes
It is a great t-shirt though :D
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