So, I was shopping at the mall today, spending the gift cards I got for my recent birthday, and there are always lots of salespeople in their little booths there, especially around this time of year. But today one of the guys comes up to me and says hello and holds out his hand. I thought he wanted me to shake it, so I did and he immediately starts filing on my nail with this block. He did it so fast that by the time I thought to say a simple ‘no thank you’ he was done. I looked at my nail and, I’ll be honest here, it did look gorgeous; very shiny, smooth, a lacquered look. So I was kind of interested. I asked, “What is that you just did?”
This guy had an accent so it was hard to understand him, plus he spoke really fast, like a salesperson does. But I heard the word “silk” very distinctly. So I told him “I don’t use silk. But thank you anyway.” You’d think the pitch would have ended there, right? WRONG! He demanded to know why I don’t use silk while glaring at me as if I had just told him the earth is flat. I told him that silk comes from worms, and I’m against using animals for reasons like that. His glare on me intensified to a look that could scare off the paparazzi and said, “It’s silk from the Dead Sea! Who cares about the Dead Sea?!?!?!?!”
Not only had this douchebag attacked my fingernail uninvited and rubbed the end product of animal torture onto it, but now he was yelling at me for having morals. Who cares about the Dead Sea, he asks? Well, I don’t care about it any more than I care about other bodies of water, but that isn’t really the point, is it? I think he was trying to say that the worms are suffering a very far distance away, therefore they’re not important. Okay, so by that logic we shouldn’t care about the war in Iraq, right? After all, it’s happening all the way over there. What a crock. Suffering is suffering, no matter who is going through it, or where it’s happening. And I’m against all forms of it.
By the way, I heavily doubt the worms were actually from the Dead Sea. Although if they were, it would be pretty fitting, wouldn’t it, considering the name of the sea?
