Personal Care

I had already been planning a trip to the grocery store to pick up some toilet bowl cleaner after my lunch with Sam today. And yesterday told me that I could stand to take some grooming and fashion tips from the gay guys I’m surrounded by. So when Sam suggested that I get some whitening strips for my teeth, well, I try to do what Sam suggests anyway, but I went right to Safeway and got some. Along with scuff cover for my shoes, facial scrub stuff “for men”, and the fancy citrus-vanilla soap I recently received compliments for.

So I went through the checkout and the cashier picked up the soap almost like it was an alien artifact. “What is this?” he asked with some combination of fascination and disgust at the $5/bar scented cellulose product, “is it all-natural or something?”

“Beats me,” I said, “a cute girl said it smelled nice. That’s all I care about.”

He nodded approvingly as he rang up the rest of my eighty bucks worth of cosmetic care products.

Sample And Hold—Neil Young