Okay so I used to have this skirt that looked like a skirt from a kindergarten teacher. It was like a jean, a denim skirt, and it had like an apple — it had like some fruits that had been cut from a different color fabric. Like, I don’t think it was felt, but it was like different colored fabric had been cut into the shape of fruits and then sewn onto the bottom of it, so it looked like it had a little fruit basket at the bottom. It was very homemade looking and I found it at a thrift store and I thought it was really ugly, and of course, that — when I find something that’s like uniquely ugly and hideous, like, I want to wear it.
So I was wearing it. And I knew I just looked really stupid. And I don’t know why but I really like that. I like to look stupid. And I was wearing it, and I went, I went to a restaurant and I was standing in line at this — like, the counter and there was like a man there and he looked like he was like a construction worker type of a guy. And he looked at me with like scoffing, like ridicule in his face, and he goes, “What are you, a kindergarten teacher?” And I’m just like, “No, I work, I work in a bookstore.” He was like, “Huh. Well your skirt looks like a kindergarten teacher.” I was like, “Well, okay.” And then I kind of just ignored him.
And the way he said it, with like disdain, I was like, “Oh, oh, man.” Like, “I’m so embarrassed.” He’s — like, I knew I looked dumb, but like, he’s over here pointing it out and like, that’s not cool. Like I’m supposed to be subtly dumb-looking not like obviously dumb-looking. And not, not that being a kindergarten teacher is dumb. You know, what the hell? Um, I have nothing against kindergarten teachers, but like, the way he said it made me feel really stupid. And so I like never wore that skirt again ever. Yeah. Thanks, dude. Made me feel really dumb.