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so my husband and i went Christmas shopping last night and i have two observations to make.

1- we went to our separate public restrooms down the mall bathroom corridor to do our separate businesses. upon walking into the women's room i observed a heinous, dead animal smell hovering over the baby changing table. the perpetrator was maybe 6 months old and even the mom seemed to be gagging a little as she changed his diaper. it was awful. i mean aw-ful. like dear God in heaven please have mercy on all of us in this shared restroom space and spare us from certain, slow odoriferous death. and it occurred to me that women's restrooms always have baby changing tables and i do not believe that men's always do. and that we women are ALWAYS lumped with the stupid children. it means we (womenandchildren) get to be saved off of sinking ships first and all that, but it ALSO means that we women are stuck w/ the children in all venues, including public restrooms. i think i would rather take my chances swimming to shore and let the men deal w/ the children just once in a while. thank you very much.

2- my aunt has always avoided shopping at a certain preppy clothing store that has been around for a while and is famous for its "layered look" and naked-ish photos hanging all over the store and in the catalogue. she has commented (in so many words) that a store that sells clothing should have models modeling said clothes and not showing off their ass cracks and that the pics are offensive and inappropriate for the eager youngsters wanting to buy their expensive, boring clothes. that being said, it's more the unstylishness (not a word, i get it) that revolts my husband about the store and when we walked by the store the first time last night he said, "ah! help! it makes my skin burn." so we quickly moved on. the second time we walked by it (we were at the mall for a while), he actually glanced in and said, "it smells like...date rapists in there." a very poignant and funny observation. the clothes do indeed smell somewhat of non consensual sex.