Culture shock indicator #162 since returning: I was out shopping at Target this week, and passed by a woman in the store who was drinking from a can. I did a double-take when I realized that it wasn't a can of beer. I think I spent a little too much time behind the Rusted Iron Curtain. Once, I passed a woman who was drinking a can of gin & tonic (yes, G&T in a can)...while walking her kid to school at 8 a.m. So you see why I am making a bit of an adjustment here.
Maybe I'll just stop shopping at Target altogether, it's too surreal. The last time I went to a Target before this, I passed by Tracy Ullman talking on a cellphone. That should have been my first warning.