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been meaning to ask
Oct. 7th, 2017 06:39 pmI was heading home the other day -- I think it was the day before Yom Kippur, actually -- when I passed a group of teenage Orthodox boys camped out on the curb. They were handing out flowers to every woman who walked by and when it was my "turn" the lead boy looked me up and down and asked "Are you Jewish?" I said I wasn't and he DIDN'T GIVE ME ONE. The lady just a few paces ahead of me got a flower! I felt oddly rejected, but at the same time confused, because:
Is this a Thing? Like, a thing that has any kind of religious significance, or precedent, or...anything?
Or were they just fucking with people? (Do I even have any followers who might know the answer to this?)
I may not be a Jew, but I know tons of them, and. I mean, I hate to play the lifelong New Yorker card, but...*exasperated jazz hands* Whatever. My point is, I don't consider myself UN-knowledgeable about Judaism.
And yet.
And yet.
I have no earthly idea what that was.
Google's giving me nothing. And I don't have the heart to ask anyone else face-to-face, after the first two people I tried seemed to think I was making it up, which -- ?? (That's one thing I love about the internet, by the way -- not having to look at the glazed over expressions people make when I talk to them.)
And now I'm remembering the time a guy who looked like Jesus, if Jesus did whip-its, offered me a yellow daisy outside a Nine Inch Nails concert for some reason and my eleventh grade BFF jumped in front of me and snarled like a guard dog. That was some weirdness too, but at least it was totally explicable. Drugs. Protective instincts. Hilarity. I understand all those things.
ETA: Oh! I'm just realizing that I should've paid closer attention to the type of flower they were giving out! Drat! Uh...I'm pretty sure they were...white. Probably? Does that mean anything to anyone? (Gah, this is gonna destroy my brain, isn't it?)
Is this a Thing? Like, a thing that has any kind of religious significance, or precedent, or...anything?
Or were they just fucking with people? (Do I even have any followers who might know the answer to this?)
I may not be a Jew, but I know tons of them, and. I mean, I hate to play the lifelong New Yorker card, but...*exasperated jazz hands* Whatever. My point is, I don't consider myself UN-knowledgeable about Judaism.
And yet.
And yet.
I have no earthly idea what that was.
Google's giving me nothing. And I don't have the heart to ask anyone else face-to-face, after the first two people I tried seemed to think I was making it up, which -- ?? (That's one thing I love about the internet, by the way -- not having to look at the glazed over expressions people make when I talk to them.)
And now I'm remembering the time a guy who looked like Jesus, if Jesus did whip-its, offered me a yellow daisy outside a Nine Inch Nails concert for some reason and my eleventh grade BFF jumped in front of me and snarled like a guard dog. That was some weirdness too, but at least it was totally explicable. Drugs. Protective instincts. Hilarity. I understand all those things.
ETA: Oh! I'm just realizing that I should've paid closer attention to the type of flower they were giving out! Drat! Uh...I'm pretty sure they were...white. Probably? Does that mean anything to anyone? (Gah, this is gonna destroy my brain, isn't it?)