On a rainy Saturday, excited to venture out furniture shopping we encountered an upscale trendy North End shop. Of course commenting as we walked about the store on various sale items we overheard two sales clerks. One asked what the other thought of us to which she replied, “they look like a couple of clever shoplifters.”
WTF! We heard you bitches! Maybe we weren’t ‘your’ customer spending thousands of $$$… but we were actually very interested in the various fabrics available for a chair recovering project. So ahh guess what—I don’t think so.
What happened to my old trendy fun North End? I say bring back the diner and send these South Enders back where they belong. —Chico Bello II
This article appears in Mar 10-16, 2011.
What the… I know which shop you’re talking about and I’m very surprised because I’ve always had great service there 🙁
Guess it’s off to a ville of fabric for my curtain fabric (I’m making my own! so excited!).
“my old trendy fun north end”
a myth. or at least, something that existed from 2004-2010, in the golden age of cheap rent and systematic poverty that allowed art students and semiprofessionals to feel ‘connected’ to the ‘local scene.’ prior to that, the north end was a place of minority violence and drug use, alocholics at Charlies’, and senior citizens with no where else to go, basically since the 20s. I doubt any of those groups would say the north end was ever ‘trendy and fun’ … sorry your idyll is quashed by the reality that once you start gentrifying an area, its no longer the ‘trendy and fun’ place you want it to be (and which it never really was) but instead just another way for commercial interests to edge non-affluent residents off the peninsula.
Come on OB! Who doesn’t whisper and judge amongst themselves when business is slow? Did they take action and ask you to buy something or leave? I am sure you have stood with your friends before and whispered your thoughts on countless people walking before you. You would surely do the same with me although the whispering would turn to giggling, which would turn to you returning home to fantasize about me.
Do they hand out weapons with each purchase?
They must be losing a lot of couches and beds due to shoplifters.
I was being a smart-ass, but thinking about it, I realize it isn’t too farfetched. My brother and his friend walked out of a Canadian Tire with a canoe they stole on a dare. Seeing they didn’t caught, the buddy who dared them went in for some paddles and got nabbed.
so, what the fuck is wrong with that? would you rather hear them say that you looked like a could of peds., or a couple of douches? man oh man, you have to have at least a million cubic feet of air in your fucking head.
if someone said that of me, i would thank them, and say yes, you are right. i am clever, and also looking for the best deals.
you should never admit shit like that here kim. you’ll be treated as an outcast and just as bad as they that stole the canoe. some of the people here, are so self evident in their high moral atitudes, as to scare the fuck out of you. think back a couple of months, to another bitcher here, and remember what went on with her.
best thing to do, is keep shit like that, to yourself, or you will get castrated, even tho you had nothing to do with it, or gain from it. trust me here.
My brother and his friends were 13, living in Ontario and it was about 35 years ago = )
But, thanks for the tip, LS = )
I like my north end. Hippies, prostitutes and all.