Annotated Christmas 2014 Bonus Strip #1
Dec01
This was inspired by a news story, can’t for the life of me find it now, about some shockingly-rich black celebrity getting followed around in a store. (…by suspicious security guards, I mean, not by fans.)
Miranda has buckets of money, but she won’t be spending any of it on the jewelry here, I can tell you that much.
(16-year-old Miranda)
Guard: Stop right there, young lady! What are you doing in this store?
Miranda: Shopping.
Guard: A likely story! How would you pay for any of this?
Miranda: My dad runs an international media conglomerate with a net worth greater than the gross domestic product of Luxembourg.
Guard: . . .
. . . in my defense, you are black.
Miranda: Wow. Can’t argue with ironclad logic like that.
Oh yes. She’s rich enough to CHOOSE where to shop.
So are most people who go into shops like this who can afford the merchandise but then find that the store security guards are for some odd reason converging on them and/or following them around.
True. While there are cases when someone needs to shop in shop with policy they don’t agree with due to being too poor to choose, it rarely involves jewelry stores.