little bitty girl

Last night, in order to avoid any encounter with the cleaning lady, I decided to meander to the Winners near my place. It's always such a great way to kill free time as there is so much to see and browse through. As always, I spend more time in the home section than in the clothing section. I am surrounded by clothes all the time, so why surround myself with more? I was enamored by all the pillow choices (those of you who know me, know very well that I LOVE tons of pillows on the bed) when a very confused and well dressed young man approached me.

Young Man: Erm.....what is the thing called that goes around the bed?

Silence and a look.

YM: You know....that's not a sheet. But goes to cover the bottom part?

"A bedskirt?," I offered.

YM: Yes!! Is that what they're called? Do they have them here?

I replied that they didn't but proceeded to offer several other great places for homeware. In between the suggestions and directions, I found out that he was an American who had just moved to Toronto in the last couple of days from San Francisco. I made some comment about how it's funny that he's here during our first cold snap.

YM: It gets COLDER?

Me: Ummm....yeah. Today was just the first little chill. It was about -1 Celcius? In February, it can drop to - 20 or so and with the wind chill factor, -35 to -40.

YM: But...it was really cold today.

He looked slightly sick at the prospect.

"You might want to buy sweaters...," I muttered as I eyed his very sparse outfit of a button down shirt, jeans and a light jacket.

I mean what was he thinking? This is Canada, where half of our land mass is covered in snow most of the year.

Silly boy.