I was standing in line outside the building waiting for the line to move enough to reach the doors, in order to stand in another line where the security guard would decide when I could actually get in. The new hot spot in town? No, the grocery during 2020's isolation situation. When I finally made it to the front of the line and the hand sanitizer girl attacked my palms with a tablespoon size of clear cold goo; this voice spoke over my shoulder. "I love your necklace. Where did you get it?"
I touched the talisman without thinking telling her I couldn't remember. "I've had it for nearly twenty years." This caused the eyebrow of store employee to raise as she once again attacked my palms with a tablespoon size of clear cold goo.
"Oh it's vintage! Cool." the twenty something said as she held out her own hand for the goo. I wasn't sure how to respond to that so I just nodded and went towards the bakery.
Vintage. Can something you bought yourself brand new at the time you bought it, be considered vintage? I always considered for something to be considered vintage it would have to at least once be gifted or sold second hand. The Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English states that vintage is "the time when a thing was made or produced". So by that standards, everything older than six months is considered vintage. This would also mean that everything I own is vintage. I guess I'm vintage by that standard?
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