Yesterday while thoroughly enjoying the feeling of being one of the last few customers at Taka on a Monday night, I noticed a really strange shopper ahead of me in the queue. She was dressed normally, i.e. tank top and pants, and looked like a 30 plus year old tai tai. Only she spoke with what I think was a Taiwanese accent, and lacked the ostentation or the carefully dolled-up ness expected of someone with tai tai status.
The thing that caught my attention though, was how she paid for $637 worth of L'Occitane products with cash. And the notes were two or three dollar generations ago. The one dollar notes (who still has one dollar notes nowadays?!) were the ones with the kingfisher print, the ten dollar notes had the shape of our little island, and i noticed that she had two more $1000 notes in her wallet. No wonder she was shopping so late at night. But still, how does one buy so much L'Occitane products! They aren't exactly very expensive, but it looked like she was stocking up enough soap and shampoo etc to last a decade.
If I didn't know that I was fully awake, I would have thought I was in some nightmare because the old notes looked really like hell notes. Maybe she robbed a bank a really long time ago and only now does she dare to take out the money to spend. Hmmm.
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