Skateboard shop

Today is my little brothers' birthday! So congratz to him! :) Yesterday I was shopping a birthday present in stores I never would otherwise visit. Skateboard shops was nr. 1 on the list of shops I should go to. It felt weird and kind of awkward to step inside the shop with only menswear and skateboards... I was so insecure and hoped no one would ask if I needed any help.

My first horrifying thought was that there were ONLY MEN in the store! Okay, I saw one girl with her boyfriend there, but that's totally different! Some day when I have a boyfriend I could do that, go to someplace like Dressmann or a skateboard shop with him. Then it's not awkward, it's cute :-P

  

I found some t-shirts with prints of skateboards and thought these would suit him! These would my brother want to have :) When I stood there at the low shelwes, a guy looked at me, actually stared at me, five meters away. I met his gaze and he smiled and looked very happy. I smiled back, and wondered if he thought it was funny to see a girl at the menswear department :D He looked Asian, had dark, long hair and looked pretty good. We didn't talk or anything, but I felt interested about him; why was he so amused? Did he try not to laugh at me? You know, it's not that common in this country to stare at strangers and look very happy and friendly. It's more like; "don't stare at me, mind your own business". Sad, huh? Of course everybody is not like that, I might have exaggerated a little. I try to not be like that, anti-social. I like those who are different and friendly. I try to spread my smile to people so that they also feel happiness. Maybe that's what he was doing; he spread his happiness to strangers :)

And just to make you sure I didn't imagine this; we took the same escalators when we left the store and he met my gaze (again) with the same excited and friendly look. I spoke in my phone so I couldn't say anything to him. However I struggled with finding words to the one I spoke with. My mind where somewhere else at the moment...


After all I was glad to be at the skateboard store :) I found a present and something to be happy about!

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