cape

I just finished watching the late night viewings of “West Wing,” then walked the dogs. A thought, memory actually, kept popping into my mind – it has nothing to do with the tv show or walking the dogs, but that seemed as good a place to start, as any. *grins* Any-hoo… I went to WalMart yesterday, to pick up some fabric I need to make the lining on the below mentioned cape. While there, a woman, slightly older then me by appearance, but probably in quite similar age brackets, commented about the large amount of black material I was purchasing – she asked if I was making something in particular, or if the material was for Halloween. I smiled and answered, thumbing through a Simplicity Halloween book, and showed her the cape pattern. We chatted while my fabric was being cut and priced (I got it for a $1.00 a yard, I’m happy!) about various, past sewing projects; she was quite talkative and friendly.

After my fabric was folded and in my cart, I began heading to the front of the store, and Hope – while talking, she had mentioned her name in several stories – fell into step along side of me. I remember thinking how happy my Mom would be, as she seems to feel I need more friends. Hope must have been thinking I’d make a good friend, herself… she asked me if I was married, and I told her I was very happily divorced. She then leaned close to me and told me she divorced her first husband because he was perverted, he wanted anal sex. She then went on to say she divorced her second husband because he was a worse pervert – he wanted oral sex, and she knew damn well it stunk ‘down there, it had to,’ and she’d be damned if she’d let any head go near there, or allow hers to go in a similar direction. Pray tell, what was the proper response to that ‘sharing’?

I smiled politely and moved to look at the bookcases. Dumb move. Well, sorta… Hope waved and headed off, I bought a bookcase. On the upside, all of my material, patterns and sewing items are now neatly stored on the bookcase, right behind my Athena.

And I think I’ll stick with my Sims.