On Consent

Riker Brown is new to the writing world, and is just now getting their feet wet. Their odd outlook on the world gives them insights that may not be evident to others. They hope to share those outlooks and idiosyncracies in a way that brings just the right balance of wonder and weird.

I may have just saved someone from the wrath of the head shop clerk.

I walk in and she’s railing on the phone about how mad she gets when people block her and how that’s a sure fire way for her to go to their job, etc… She asks me as she’s grabbing my (state and federally legal) items if I get mad when people block me. I just said, “No, because I like to respect people’s consent.”.

I could see the mushroom clouds billowing from her ears as her mind was blown.