“And I’ve finally figured out why – and it came from a conversation I had last Wednesday, where the clerk (a man about my own age) said he was lucky he remembered my name. And I countered with ‘How many middle-aged women in headscarves have a pull-list here?’ He grinned and acknowledged that I was unique there.”
Comic book shops and me, Debra Fran Baker, August 19, 2007
Wearing headscarves, not wearing headscarves, personally I fancy ankle-length batik schmatas and rayon rebozos – Middle-aged women in comics shops do indeed rock the house.