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thelastspeecher · 6 months ago

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cashier at the woo woo store that is the only local place I can purchase rock and mineral specimens: oh a lava rock with peridot! good choice, that combination will improve your-

me, with a master's in geoscience and just wanting to buy this porphyritic basalt with olivine phenocrysts:

#this is my curse. my cross to bear.#if I want new rocks and minerals I have to go to a damn woo woo store and be subjected to #specimens dyed and cut and chemically treated within an inch of their lives #specimens labeled with simplistic or euphemistic names #(like is it SO BAD to call something ''basalt'' or ''scoria'' instead of ''LAVA ROCK''???)#or even fucking WRONG names #or FAKE THINGS #(last time I went in one of those stores I saw literal fucking COLORED GLASS labeled as ''blue obsidian''#and there was FAKE AMBER mixed in with REAL AMBER and no sign saying any of it was fake!)#and of course the many little cards next to the specimens that detail how they will cure my ailments and make me rich and get me a spouse #oh btw I never actually say to any of the employees that I know more than them #I'm polite to retail workers no matter how much their business pisses me off #but every. single. time. I buy something that has a card next to it declaring it'll cure my anxiety or is for Geminis or whatever #I am thinking to myself ''I know more than you''#speecher speaks

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