Naïve young ones, rude promotions girls and star trek.

We eventually found Chris a belt, which in itself doesn’t sound like such a feat, but when you’re looking for one that has a minimal amount of nickel in the buckle it can become quite a chore. Anyhow, we found a store that was selling belts and as we had a 20% off card for this place it helped with the purchase.
As Chris was paying I began to chat with the girls behind the till, they were impressed by our accents and even more impressed, and in awe of the fact that we were backpacking for 6 months. The young girl behind the till, who wore a top which I assume is fashionable, a short skirt and boots, face caked thick with makeup turned to me and said “I just don’t know how you do it, like, how do you know what clothes to take, like? I just couldn’t, I’d be lost without all me clothes and makeup, I just couldn’t bring myself to do it like” To which I nodded and agreed that knowing what clothes to bring can be difficult yes, but when travelling that’s not always your main priority, that you go to have experiences and adventures and to not worry about that sort of stuff.
The other girl shook her head and said “well, I couldn’t do it, I can’t live without my hair straightener” I have to admit, this struck a cord with me. I too find it hard without my hair straightener but I mentioned that there is a palm sized one for traveling that you can buy and that if you have a spare 1.5 hours to kill sitting there trying to iron it all out, then it’s no problem. I have one that sits in my backpack. I haven’t used it much and Chris keeps harping on about it saying that it’s a waste of space and that it’s just more weight for him to carry around. I refuse to get rid of it and remind him that we’re in England now, who knows when we might bump into the Queen and be invited back to hers for a bite to eat? In that case I’d like my hair straightened thank you to look my very best.

Anyhow, after the naivety of these two young, albeit, sweet girls, we moved on to the nearest cinema to see “Star Trek” On our way there we walked through a mall where I had a young promotions girl come up to me and try to hand me samples of her stores goods. I’m very tired of people on street corners trying to flog me things and ask for money for charity all the time. Normally I’ll drop a few pennies in, but as we’re travelling in a large place that is so darn expensive I now try to keep all our pennies for ourselves, before we end up a charity.
So, anyway, this girl comes up and sticks this promotional flyer thing in my face and I was polite in saying “no thank you” and as she’d shoved this thing in my face I’d walked into two girls, who I apologized too, but as I walked away the promotions girl screamed over her shoulder (and I kid you not when I say screamed, she truly did!) “No, thank YOU!!!!!” Her voice going up octaves and becoming more hysterical as she did so. I didn’t like her attitude so I yelled back “YOU’RE WEL-COME!!” I wanted to add a rude word on the end but I resisted it and instead went on my way muttering about how incredibly rude she was when I had been polite to start with.

We found the cinema in the end and made it in time to see “Star Trek” which Chris has been waiting to see since the promos came out last year or so. I was rolling my eyes, but you know what? I really enjoyed the film. It’s not as nerdy, of sci fi, or as trekki as I thought it would be. All in all it was good, 4 out of 5 on my taste scale. After this we made a quick stop off at the pub on the way home for a cider before catching the bus home.

written by  Chris and Emily on May 16, 2009 from Bristol, United Kingdom
from the travel blog: Europe 2009
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