As I've told you, I work on an island at a bakery, cafe, and coastal store. Yesterday, I was working in the store part, when two English women came up to me holding a sand dollar painted with palm trees....one of many kitchy florida crappy things we sell.
"Excuse me, what is this?" they asked
."That's a magnet" I replied
"No, I mean we saw these on the beach, they weren't painted, but they had this pretty star carving on it"
So now I was amused. Were these ladies really asking me what a sand dollar was? oh jeeze.
"Yes, that's a sand dollar...were the ones you saw on the beach White? or Brown? The white ones are dead, you can take all you want. The brown ones are still alive, so you have to leave them." I explained.
"No, these were carved, with a star symbol, and they had little slots in them...somebody carved a design in them. Who carves them and puts them back in the water?" they asked
"Um....God?"
I further explained to them that sand dollars were naturally like that, that there was nobody carving them. Oh lord. On a brighter note..they were so excited about these, that they bought a couple of our overpriced glitter sand dollars for 15 bucks a pop.
I really just wanted to go into the kitchen and bake.
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