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posted July 04, 2004 01:24 PM         

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Is there anyway to get spell check on this site??
Yesterday, hubby and I went spirituality shopping. First we went to a mineral shop to look for crystals and gemss for chakra healing. We came upon a shop and went in and
picked around and asked a lot of stupid questions of the novice kind. We were discussing healing elements with the shop keeper and blah, blah, blah...
Making comments like, ooohhh, this is pretty and aaahhhh, look at this! How much does this cost? (It was an unpolished sapphire, about 3lbs. worth) He told us It wasn't for sale and was very stand-offish about our presence in his store. I just thought maybe he was having a bad day or something...
Keep that little story in mind.
Next we went to an out door flea market. Many of the people from that town are heavily into mysticism. You could find almost anything you want. We were psyched!
We were going from table to table, drooling the whole time, when I came across a table with "Bent forks". I asked the person behind the table if they did those and she pointed to another guy and said "He did them". I was so excited to meet someone who could bend forks! They also had pretty stones oncorperated in them. I went over to this guy and asked if bent them and he said "Yes" and seemed very proud I took such an interest.
I said "You bent these with your mind?" He said "yes" he bent them. I said "with your mind? That was when he caught onto what I was really talking about. He professionally reemed me out, telling me that his designs are art! and not that trickery I was talking about!!! He was pretty mad. I said (in a very disappointed manner) "Oh, well they're pretty." (Another mistake) I'm an artist and it takes a lot to impress me, so since I was on a totally different plane that day, I wasn't looking for "Art"
All of this didn't click until I got home. I was talking to my husband about our great day and realized I had insulted an artist who spent most of his life forming forks into beautiful pieces, without knowing it. (by the way we did end up buying something from him, but it was some colored glass in a jar he was displaying his forks in, they weren't really for sale!) We both insulted the man in the mineral store by talking about "Hocus, Pocus" in front of him, he was a Dr. of mineralology, travelled the world, lectured, wrote books and we were asking the price of a 3lb. sapphire!
Sometimes being niave is great. You don't have to tippy-toe around, worring about insulting people.
We also insulted the Chinese culture by drilling holes in their "old" coins for the purpose of making jewelery. We were told this by the woman who originally sold us the coins.

Hope everyone else can have a naive day!

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From: Rennes-le-Chateau
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posted July 04, 2004 01:37 PM         

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Oh my I had to giggle a litte when I read that.Gosh..haven't we all done that? It does sound like your naive day was fun though.Btw that's a very big sapphine!I went on for my OB check up last year and had this kind looking woman sitting next to me in the lab.Well we had to wait quite a bit because the technicians were running behind so we started chatting.She appeared to be about 8 months pregnant....her shirt looked like a maternity smock and her belly was very round.I politely asked when her baby was due.She of course snapped off....I am NOT pregnant!!!She said her youngest child was 8.Oops....*foot in mouth*.To make it worse there were no other chairs to sit in and we had to wait another painful 15 mins.I am sure I ruined her day..I was just trying to drum up some casual converstaion.Now I don't bother when it comes to someone's personal appearance.....I am not making that mistake again! Thanks for the story....we are all guilty of being naive.Blessings.....maven

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