Consumerism

This was the scene as I showed up at my hairdresser's: huge (picture The D saying that word) queues of teens and young adults, lined up around a square block. 

No, they weren't all going to my coiffeur  (thank God!); they waited for hours in 97-degree heat just to be the first to buy a new pair of $150-sneakers just released by Nike today. You'd have to pay me to stand in line for any piece of apparel...