boomerangs will only be sold to responsible adults
The boomerang vendor was in casual drag. Not all dolled up like a queen, (s)he was wearing a sensible lipstick, a midlength skirt from TJ Maxx, and a dreaddy grey wig.
When I first approached her, and asked her about her relationship to the boomerangs, she told me in sort of a psuedo-confiding voice that she had never even thrown one. "Boomerangs are hard to sell," she said. I thought that was hilarious, and wondered why the boomerang maker might have chosen her as a vendor.
I stayed though, and quickly discerned that she had quite a well developed banter about boomerangs, and everything she said seemed to be tongue in cheek. She started to do her sales pitch on me, just to show me how it was done, and it became apparent that I was in fact talking to the maker of the boomerangs. Evidently the larger the boomerang, the more range you get, but the less tolerance you get for mistakes.
Her boomerangs were modern, loopy affairs, sweetly painted and shiny. She showed me some old school boomerangs, meant to be used as weapons, thick kangaroo-smackers that didn't look like they were designed to return.
She made it clear, however, that she was only interested in boomerangs for play, however. She has a sign clarifying her position:
Boomerangs are not weapons!
...but antidotes for
predation!
These are times when our
PHYSICAL and SOCIAL
PREDATION on each other
have run amok.
So let's use boomerangs the
right way!
Throw only in open areas
CLEAR OF PEOPLE!
Boomerangs will only be sold to responsible adults.