Blissful Ignorance
When I was little, my grandma would pack my siblings and I into her old jalopy and we'd start driving through town.....Inevitably, I would ask, "Gramma, where are we going?"
"Neiman Marcus" she'd say matter-o-factly.
"Oh, whats that?"
"It's a store where they have amazing things, anything you can dream of!"
I'd enter the store and ask, "Gramma, is this Neiman Marcus?"
and she would reply "Yes, dear" with her perfectly divine smile.
This same scenario replayed itself many times over the years, on those warm summer afternoons we spent running errands with grandma. But I never once set foot in a Neiman Marcus until I was 25.
A few years after she passed away, when I moved to Florida, someone told me they were going to Neiman Marcus to get a dress for a black tie event.
"Really?!" I asked.
I asked her how she expected to find a fancy dress at a Goodwill Store.....
The first time I set foot in a Neiman Marcus store I was 25..and I beamed a smile bigger than life up to Gramma in heaven,as my pure, innocent, ignorant associations spread a warmness in my heart.
Much to the dismay of the "personal shopper" at Neiman Marcus, I laughed out loud at the $500 Jimmy Choo's, $1,000 purses, and plain white T-shirts on the clearance rack going for a 'mere' couple hundred dollars........
Gramma could have told me that the sky was purple and I would have wholeheartedly believed her.....
Love you Gramma xoxoxoxo
Comments (6)
I think your Grandma must have been a lot of fun!
(I wouldn't know a Neiman Marcus Tee Shirt from a Hanes.)
haha...what I meant was that for years she had me beliveing that a Goodwill- (which is a place where people donate all their unwanted goods and others can buy at a discount) was a high class retail store....
The reference to the sky being purple just meant that it really didnt matter what she told me, because I admired her so much that she could have told me anything and I would have believed it...just like I never questioned what Neiman Marcus was....never really ran across it because it wasnt in the states I lived in after she passed away....does that make sense?