This Is Framingham

Yesterday I stopped by “sad plaza“and took a look around St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store.  I go in there about once a month looking for interesting house wares or old corduroys.  There can be a lot of junk in there but occasionally I’ll find something that catches my eye like this yarn picture and even though I don’t smoke, I just had to have this ashtray.
Yesterday I saw something that stopped me in my tracks.  In 1978 my mom brought my sister and I to a store like Kmart or Two Guys and I guess they were demonstrating the latest Kodak instant camera.  My mom had them take a picture of my sister and I and they put the photo in this little sleeve/book to remind you what awesome new camera took the picture.
  
Of course she didn’t buy the camera but this photo has been kept in the sleeve and is a permanent part of the picture collection we’ve kept through the years.

As I was looking through the thrift store I saw a familiar image.  The yellow background an colorful letters spelling out “Colorburst”- it was the Kodak Colorburst 300, in person!  I stood there gazing at it and I heard James Blunt’s “Beautiful” in my head.

There was someone standing in front of it looking at stuff on another shelf.  I thought “Oh my God, please don’t look down!”  I had this nightmare scenario that this lady would look at it and say “Oh WOW!  A Colorburst 300, I can’t believe it!” she would scoop it up and walk by me, hugging it with a big smile on her face but she soon got out of the way and I went over and grabbed it.
I brought it home and got out the Colorburst picture I’ve kept for 28 years, I was just so thrilled with this great random find and it was only $5!

I couldn’t wait to show Ethan, as soon as he got home I said “GUESS what I found at the thrift shop!” and pointed over to it on the counter.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone less impressed with something as he was with that camera.  It wasn’t even disgust, it was just this pure “could not care less” vibe.
I even tried convince him it was cool to have, showing him the picture and saying “THIS picture was taken with the same type of camera and I found this camera at the thrift store!”
He just stood there for a second and then asked “Are you going to keep it?”

I guess it’s just me, but I was so happy with my little treasure, it’s beautiful to me. : )