Quote of the day

"I'm not really up on my Indian tribes..."

This old man we met at the Prudential shopping mall started talking to me... I was trying to be nice and friendly and I think I managed to egg him on because he started going off about some small Indian tribe (casino Indians, not convenience store Indians, clarification courtesy of Gaurav)... I wasn't that interested but my friend and I were taking a break from all that shopping and had found these really comfy lounge chairs, which happened to be right next to this crazy guy. Anyway, he was telling us about how this Indian tribe makes really elaborate pottery and puts the pottery on top of heads of those who have died with a hole in it so the spirits can be released blah blah.

Then he brings up some other Indian tribe, which I wasn't familiar with... and this is when he started attacking me for being stupid. He was like "Have you heard of them?" I answered "no... I'm not really up on my Indian tribes..." My friend started laughing and then he goes "Oh, you haven't travelled that much? You haven't been to Arizona or New Mexico?" and right when I was about to get defensive because ahem, I have actually done a fair amount of travelling, he goes "Or is it just that you don't pay attention?"

Who does that?? Thank god Jamie saved me and we pretended to rush over to Sephora!

By the way. When we were in Palm Springs over Christmas, we went on a guided hike with a real life Cahuilla Indian ranger! So there, old man.