Yesterday Afternoon (Gross Story-Sorry!)

So yesterday afternoon, I headed to my doctor’s office for a check-up.  Regular lady visit and all.

Anyway, my doc is near Water Tower Place–which in case you’re not from Chicago, is a giant mall at the top of Michigan Avenue.  It’s been there forEVer and I used to go there when I was a teen and drool over all the Le Sportsac purses there, because there was a Le Sportsac store there in the 80’s.  (There was also a Rizzoli bookstore there, as well.  I used to go and drool over the giant expensive art books there, as well.)

So, I decide that I’m going to go visit one of my former students (and current performers.  I won’t say who, so as to discourage stalkers) and I head into the giant makeup store there, which is where she works.  I head in, examine all of the products from Make Up For Ever (OMG.  Must.  Buy.  Everything.  They.  Make.), pick up a pair of eyelashes–she was not working and I had not a huge budget, so I moved along–and then decide to head upstairs, because I couldn’t remember whether or not Water Tower was the place with the Max Studio store–it was not.

On the way, I remember the populations of people I try to avoid in downtown Chicago: Tourists, pre-teens with money, teens with money, and people from the suburbs.  They just don’t move quickly enough for this big City girl.

I pop off the elevator and there’s one of those hot pretzel places at the top.  I’m like, “Yum!”  So I order a pretzel, because it’s going to be a while before my date with T.  Procure pretzel and head back down escalators.

Oh my god then it all goes wrong.  I get VERY nauseated and almost throw up.  Seriously, I had to run across the mall at top speed to the bathroom and gag into le toilet.  It was sudden, violent, and frightening.  One second you’re eating a pretzel, then the next, HRLLLLACCCK.

Needless to say, I threw the remaining pretzel out and jumped on the bus and went home.  Yuck.

Helpful Hint: Don’t buy hot pretzels at the mall.  In fact, don’t even go to the mall.  It will make you ill.