Writers Ramble

Whilst out shopping with my mother yesterday at a well known centre on the borders of Kent & Essex we sat drinking coffee. As we sat resting our tired feet, we watched the many shoppers that passed us by - mum commented how the majority carried Primark bags. We then started to bag spot (how sad) and soon realised that of the thousands of shoppers in the centre at least 85% of them had indeed purchased from said shop.

Here's the point - if so many shop at the one store, even given the huge amount of products sold there - why are we not all wearing identical clothing? Are we in danger of turning the world into replicas of Albert Einstein when while we may not wear the same clothes every day we all wear the same clothes?

Now interestingly, when I chatted the whole scenario through with a friend she informed me that she has always shopped there. That for the many hundreds of items she has purchased from the shop in question - she has never seen another wearing any of what she owns.

How is this possible? I remember reading an article some years ago - a lady wore a Primark dress to Ascot for she knew sh would never be in danger of there being an identical one at the race. Now when you cross match in that way (wearing something cheap somewhere expensive) I can see the obvious safety. But in everyday life, shopping in the high street or collecting children from school it must be an almost impossibility not to run into a mirror image of your outfit.