Yesterday, I went to Macy’s.  It was my first time shopping in a store other than Goodwill in months, due in part to budgetary restrictions and in part to schedule restrictions, by mostly due to my changing attitude towards shopping.  

Walking into a department store in South Florida after three months spent in relative isolation and shopping abstinence is a recipe for major culture shock, and major culture shock is what I got.  I think I was more overwhelmed than when I returned from five months in Egypt.  It was a weird mix of feelings: disgust, superiority, desire….and then I thought, geez, Azoff, what a snob you are! You walk in here like some sort of Continue reading →