First-World Woes

[ladysprite]

I think I may have recently encountered one of the saddest things in my life.

So I was at Victoria's Secret last week, indulging in my periodic need for overpriced, undersized scraps of brightly-colored lace and satin. And, for those of you who don't shop there on a regular basis, in addition to lingerie, Vicky's also sells overpriced, undersized bits of makeup and perfume as well.

Anyway, I found what I was looking for, and got in line to check out. A moment or two later, another woman got in line behind me, along with her daughter, who couldn't have been more than 8 or 9 years old. Said daughter, apparently bored with shopping for mom's underwear, began poking through the makeup and picked up a tube of sparkly lip gloss. And she quite politely asked her mother if she could have it.

At which point, with much eye-rolling and exasperation, the mom took the lip gloss away from the girl and firmly put it back, with the admoniton of 'NO! You're too old to wear glitter!'

Which..... WHAT? Okay - aside from the fact that, if that's the case, what the hell am I supposed to do with the four-pack of liquid glitter eyeliner in my bathroom cabinet, if nine is too old to wear glitter, what the hell IS an appropriate age to wear sparkly lip gloss? I have an unfortunate vision of NICU nurses carrying tubes of Cover Girl Wetslicks to smear on newborns at the same time that they put on those teeny hats they all seem to be born wearing....

This is not right.

Comments

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

ARGH! Never too old to wear glitter.

*stomps off defiantly to her makeup drawer*

[wcg.livejournal.com]

You may wear glitter whenever you wish. Just tell 'em I said so.

[medeaschild.livejournal.com]

...I'm sorry, I understand all of the words in that statement individually, but I can't parse the meaning when they're in that order.

Too... Old... to... Wear... Glitter...

Nope, can't get it to make sense. It looks like English, but those words can't be used like that in my native tongue.

[serakit.livejournal.com]

Sounds just like my mother, actually. I feel for that poor kid; it's no fun growing up deprived of everything sparkly and fun.

[citabria]

So -- did you then look at the lip gloss, go "ooooh!," find another in the pile that was exactly the same and buy it?

[bkwrrm-tx.livejournal.com]

/stares at glitter bombs on my nails/

/laughs hysterically at mom with stick up her ass/

/feels sorry for kid/

/adds more glitter/

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Too old? I could see too young, maybe, but... scary...

[lolleeroberts.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm with citabria. I'd have had to go ooooh, glitter! and buy the thing, with a distinct wink at the kid to let her know she wasn't the one being a jerk.

[aries-walker.livejournal.com]

That woman clearly is a Klingon.