Caroline

 Jodi and I walk past this store more times than we should, but it is on the block past our hotel.  Every time we are accosted by the salespeople.  They are selling expensive skin products.  We know this because we did go in once.  Only $299 for a two year supply of this stuff that is better than botox.  It's not really.  It just dries on your skin and pulls it tighter so the wrinkles look smaller.  Anyway they do and say all kinds of things to get you to engage so they can try to sell their product.  And there are more than one shop selling the same stuff but all with different names.  But mostly we just passed this one.

So our second night we are walking through trying to get to the shops we want to shop in and the guy looks at me and says "Are you following me?"  I ignore him but it made me kind of upset.  That felt beyond the normal ploy of trying to get my attention.  We walk by and go shop.  

First shop there is this older woman shopping.  We discussed some little thing and went about our business.  Second shop this woman again came in behind us.  I turned to her and said "are you following us?"  Then I asked her if that guy on the previous block had tried that with her also and he had.  So we had quite the little discussion about pressure sales.  Went about our business again.

This morning we are walking on the sidewalk going the other way and we ran into her again.  We laughed.  Her name is Caroline and they were getting ready to leave the hotel and go stay in an airbnb.  She lives in Arizona.  She almost felt like a friend at this point.