You paid what for that?

So here's the thing.  I could care less how much you pay for stuff.  If you want to pay $200 for a pair of jeans because you like the quality or the fit or the way the bling sparkles on your butt have at it!  It genuinely makes no difference to me.  I realize that sometimes name brands are indeed much better than their off brand counterparts, but sometimes they're not and I am not the type of person that thinks a tag makes it better.

Which brings me to why I'm writing about this in the first place...

Today, I met a gentleman whilst waiting for my husband to park the car.  We were at our respective daughters soccer game waiting for it to start.  He had on sunglasses.  I had on sunglasses both seemed to be serving the purpose.

He starts telling me about his sunglasses in a very awkward conversation transition kind of way.  You know like we were talking about what time the girls game started and who they were playing and he said speaking of sunglasses my Maui Jims were stolen, and that is why I am having to wear these Coach ones.  I want to insert here stolen is a very large stretch.  I know this because he told me the entire story.  They fell off his head and he didn't notice.  He has an elaborate tale about how he is sure that someone bumped into him whilst a 3rd party snatched them.  Whatever dude you laid them down and now those extremely expensive sunglasses are gone end of story.  He also added how he has to travel a lot for his job and how many perks he receives and blah blah blah I think the girls game started bye bye now!

What is it with people?  I will not pay a ton for sunglasses because I sit on them, or I leave them places or I drop them in my purse and the lens pops out.  It is how I am I have come to terms with it.  If this guy sits on his sunglasses it hurts a lot more  in more ways than one!

What happened to talking about the weather?   I don't want to know what kind of job you have or what kind of car you drive or how much anything that is covering your body cost.  Unless any of those topics are going to make me laugh then by all means, talk away.

So, the next time you are making conversation with a complete stranger remember 2 things.  One, you have no clue if this person you are talking to is going to write a blog about you and number two you are way more interesting than your stuff.