The "Taint"
Mar. 22nd, 2008 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyrasantae
So I'm at an odd little gift shop at the mall, when I hear a familiar intro playing over the speakers in the shop...
My legs wanted to run, but my heart knew it was too late. To my surprise I could still remember most of the words to the song, which I was now mouthing, and I got the hell out of there once it got to the instrumental bit in the middle.
Feeling rather tainted, I tried to do something, anything, to get the song out of my head (it has ... that catchiness issue). I talked to myself. I prayed. I listened to my iPod. Ultimately, it would not go away, and I went to the coin and stamp shop, and for little rational reason, flipped through a box of thematically sorted packs of used stamps, curious if there were any Finnish packages. There were four, and since I felt like it, chose one with lots of vintage stamps:
There was a boy digging through the "5 random coins for $1" bin, so I moved to the "1 random paper money for $2" bin. These bins contain totally worthless money like old Mexican pesos, plastic bills from Romania, stuff from the Deutschösterreich, stuff like that. Right near the top of the loose bills in the bin was one of these. So it's mine now:
(The second photo shows its actual colours better, while the first photo probably has the colours it had when it would have been new.)
Anyway, I feel a bit better about "the taint" now, after I opened up the package of stamps and sorted them out. There are a number of duplicates so if you're interested, let me know and I'll put them in the mail for you. Or maybe I can take them back from whence they came.
The fun thing about vintage stamps is that they're all done as engravings. I really like the line engraving ones. Still, it would have been nice if they had been more consistent with the changing of colours for different denominations. Instead of random definitives in different colours for the same denominations, keep them in the same colour when they're reprinted, and actually change colours for different denominations :P
My legs wanted to run, but my heart knew it was too late. To my surprise I could still remember most of the words to the song, which I was now mouthing, and I got the hell out of there once it got to the instrumental bit in the middle.
Feeling rather tainted, I tried to do something, anything, to get the song out of my head (it has ... that catchiness issue). I talked to myself. I prayed. I listened to my iPod. Ultimately, it would not go away, and I went to the coin and stamp shop, and for little rational reason, flipped through a box of thematically sorted packs of used stamps, curious if there were any Finnish packages. There were four, and since I felt like it, chose one with lots of vintage stamps:
There was a boy digging through the "5 random coins for $1" bin, so I moved to the "1 random paper money for $2" bin. These bins contain totally worthless money like old Mexican pesos, plastic bills from Romania, stuff from the Deutschösterreich, stuff like that. Right near the top of the loose bills in the bin was one of these. So it's mine now:
(The second photo shows its actual colours better, while the first photo probably has the colours it had when it would have been new.)
Anyway, I feel a bit better about "the taint" now, after I opened up the package of stamps and sorted them out. There are a number of duplicates so if you're interested, let me know and I'll put them in the mail for you. Or maybe I can take them back from whence they came.
The fun thing about vintage stamps is that they're all done as engravings. I really like the line engraving ones. Still, it would have been nice if they had been more consistent with the changing of colours for different denominations. Instead of random definitives in different colours for the same denominations, keep them in the same colour when they're reprinted, and actually change colours for different denominations :P
