All of a sudden, I found myself experiencing sociology when I was at Walgreens yesterday. I had gone to the doctor earlier that day and I found out i have pink eye and needed to pick up a perscription to cure it. I was waiting for the percription that took about twenty mintutes to fill. So I sat down in a chair and started to read a magazine, but I got distracted people-watching. If you ever want to go somewhere to see all different kinds of people, let me tell you, Walgreens at 7 o'clock in the evening on a Sunday is the place to go!
At Walgreens, I saw a worried mother trying to find the right cold medicine for her baby, an old man with a girlfriend who looked about 15 or so years younger than him, some emo teenagers, and a mom with about 6 kids with her. Wierd! I also saw a woman who attracted attention everywhere she went. She was wearing a very revealing tanktop, skin-tight jeans that needed to be pulled up, and some very, very talk black stilleto boots. I'm pretty sure last night I saw my first prostitute! The woman commited a folkway by wearing this scandalous outfit to Walgreens. She got many strange looks from people! But since she wasn't hurting anybody or breaking a law by wearing this outfit, she was only breaking a folkway. What an adventure at Walgreens!
That woman really did break a folkway there...sounds like quite the outfit. People watching is an excellent way to kill time....and see sociology too :)
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