It was green. It was gold. It was shiny and it was tinsel.
Everywhere she looked it was tinsel. Hanging from the ceiling, the walls, the doors, and someone had somehow managed to hang tinsel from the computer screen.
She was worried. It appeared the world she knew had gone crazy. Loopy. Weird. Down right strange. It seemed everyone had tinsel around some part of their anatomy.
The dark haired woman had it wrapped around her bun, the blond woman had it pleated in with her hair. The greying man had it around his waist and attached to his badge.
It was official. She was freaked out.
She looked in the basket hanging from her arm to see if it had been taken over by the tinsel monsters.
"Ma'am, would you like a string of tinsel to tie in your hair?" The dark haired woman asked her with a ready smile on her face.
Tinsel. What's wrong with this town at the moment?
"No thank you, just the shopping in my basket thank you." Sam replied and watched as the greying man pack her bag with a strange sense of neatness.
The steady beeping of the cash machine adding up her total kept Sam's mind from wandering too far into the night where it really wanted to go.
Farther down the street the lights flickered and danced around the tinsel covered Christmas tree. The fairy lights hung in swags from the lampposts and large light bulb snowflakes dropped from the sky in a perfect imitation of the real sow that was falling and building steadily on the ground.
"Ma'am, that'll be forty dollars and fifty five cents." The woman said and from the tone in her voice it obviously wasn't the first time.
The tinsel glittered in the light as Sam reached into her bag and pulled the necessary amount of money from it and handed it over.
Something fell from her bag and she reached down to pick it up.
A green and gold piece of tinsel was wrapped around a small doll that had brown hair and glasses and a wide smile that made her heart warm in seconds.
"Daniel." She whispered and smiled a small smile.
"Excuse me?" the woman questioned.
Sam looked up and simply shook her head before walking out into the chill night air of tinsel town.