The official "What did you get for Christmas?" thread

[Blu Mongoose]

People see Mark, a tattoo artist, as a tough-guy persona and sometimes take him for a starving-artist type. Like, we went to a jewelers recently (to look for watches!) And no one would even help us. Then this hoity-toity couple walks in and the sales people fawned over them like little worshippers. Same thing when we looked at computers at Circuit City. I don't even get it, because I dress reasonably well (10-year-old leather jacket that looks new because I care for it.. and I am usually even wearing office-type clothing from my office job..)
It was moreso when Mark owned his construction business (which he still dabbles in.) We would walk into a store and Mark would look like Joe Everyman in his paint-spattered boots, caulk-stained shirt and ripped jeans. But he is a worker through and through, and anyway..
So he wanted this watch to "stick it" to people who see him as a metalhead punk. And he got it

I remember shopping in my work clothes at a sears and roebuck , welding in a dirty shop for 10 hrs. . I was pulling about 900.00 a week after taxes, not too bad. I wanted to see a binder for collectable stamps, about one hundred. the clerk told me he wasn't wanting to show it to me since I probaby couldn't AFFORD it.
What does a clerk at a sears make??

[Ginevive]

I remember shopping in my work clothes at a sears and roebuck , welding in a dirty shop for 10 hrs. . I was pulling about 900.00 a week after taxes, not too bad. I wanted to see a binder for collectable stamps, about one hundred. the clerk told me he wasn't wanting to show it to me since I probaby couldn't AFFORD it.
What does a clerk at a sears make??

I know; it is ridiculous. At the time that we were computer shopping, Mark owned the business and was bringing in about what you just described in a week. Now he is an independent tattoo artist. It is actually hard for even me, to determine his monthly income. Some days are $50 days, some can be $1k days!
Life is different nowadays. They can't pigeonhole us into low class and high class. Then again, the biggest thing I have learned about the world: Class in itself is not buyable. Someone either has it, or they are obnoxious.. many, both rich and poor, fit that bill!