try again

You can learn a lot about someone by what they buy at a consignment store. A tired, limp blazer or threadbare tees touting some forever-ago cause. The buyers are willing to try again. They are a forgiving people. Maybe that blazer didn’t quite look just right when it needed to but, it can have another chance. Maybe that tee didn’t spread the word far enough about that cause, maybe not enough money was raised but it, too, can have another chance. Names like Goodwill, Blue Mitten, Take Two all exude the warmth, the forgiveness that the buyers have. Only people such as this can put up with the smell of these shops. It isn’t an unpleasant smell but it is a smell that comes with lying dormant at the back of a closet while heaps of other clothing are poured on top over time. That comes with sitting and waiting. Musty would be close to the right word if it weren’t so trite. They visit again and again, constantly waiting for the right ‘thing.’ I wish you had waited.