Shopping

How do girls pick out their clothes? she wondered. She had a pair of jeans that she would wear for weeks on end, washing them once in a while, but even so eventually they sprung holes here and there, which she patched faithfully for a while until they weren't jeans anymore, and then once she fell down on the street and tore a huge gap at the knee, and when she tried to repair it -- well, the pants became shorts and then she had to go out and look for the new something to wear on the foggy days. She had to go out and look -- but the weather took a turn for the better, it was sunny and warm most of the time, and she was really getting used to feeling the breeze around her ankles. So the trip to the store got postponed and delayed and the more she thought about it the less urgent it seemed. She did ask one girl for advice -- a clerk at a doctor's office -- and the girl was friendly and everything but she herself was wearing a skirt, and wasn't a skirt such a good idea? Not to be melodramatic, but that's the way it went. She talked to a couple of random people, did a lot of shop-window gazing, and then picked up a new pair "on the street" -- whatever that means. Hopefully, it means a garage sale, but knowing her it might just as well be a pair of pants left behind by some homeless dude. Those brown baggy corduroy pants definitely look like they've been around the block any number of times, that's for sure.