Selena

J and I are visiting a city we've never been to before. We're walking down a city street and someone approaches us and says, "The Selena Gomez concert is about to start! Here are free tickets, if you're interested!" We look at each other and shrug, then take the tickets.

Although the building is large, where we're taken inside is a small, intimate venue. When we get there, I notice that Selena is sitting in one of our seats (since there are only empty ones left), just casually shooting the breeze with her fans. One young man two seats away is so excited he can barely breathe. Her assistant comes out to get her so the show can start, and she reluctantly leaves so she can go perform. We take the empty seats and settle in.

We enjoy the first couple of songs but then decide we want to continue our exploration of the city. We get up and leave the building and continue wandering down the street, eventually passing a large electronics store. We're trying to decide whether to go inside or not, when we overhear two young men talking to each other as they pass the entrance. Their remarks were disparaging, to say the least. This makes us curious, so we go inside and find it crowded with people. The owners are handling several transactions at once, so it's quite chaotic.

From watching the scene for a few moments, we gather that people can bring in their old electronics and trade them in toward new purchases. One teenager has handed in something quite old and well-loved, and bought something new instead. The husband puts the old item in a pile, and then he turns around to handle the next transaction.

The wife happens to be over near the pile and spies this new addition to the heap, picks it up, and yells, "Why the hell did you put these in our inventory? We shouldn't be selling this! This is crap!"

The husband turns to her with a warning look and calmly says, "That young lady traded that in for a new item."

"Oh, yes." She then gives everyone around the counter a huge, embarrassed grin and yells out, "Who's next?"

Magic

I sign up for a college course at the bar across the street from where I live in downtown somewhere. The classes are taught by a world-renowned magician. I'm going to learn magic, folks!