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Personal Narrative Essay: The Browser

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The Browser When most people hear the word “deviance” the worst examples are always brought to the fore: extreme racism, sado-masochism, or physical deformities. Partaking of any of these attitudes, behaviors or conditions is enough to ostracize one from their community, to be labeled “deviant.” Thankfully, for this class we were admonished to NOT break any laws or hurt anyone, so the social damage we would endure would be minimal. But, as I like to push things a bit, I came up with my norm violation, I would browse peoples shopping carts as they were actively shopping at a store. The genesis of this experiment began during my time living in Southern California. This happened to me on more than one occasion mind you. I would be shopping at a store, my cart loaded with groceries, and a complete stranger would feel compelled to reach into my cart and grab an item and make some sort of remark, usually to the effect that I had made a good choice in choosing X brand of cereal. Every time …show more content…

I approached from the front made eye contact and smiled walking past her and stopped, reached in and grabbed a loaf of Hawaiian Bread, exclaiming that this bread is my favorite. The child looked taken aback, not knowing what to do, the mother, smiling as she weakly nodded and agreed that it was very tasty bread. When I placed the bread back and tried to continue the conversation, giving her a recipe to make with this bread, she quickly took control of the cart and explained she really has to get going. I later found a trio of “bros” with a cart full of alcohol. I made a thumbs up and grabbed a bottle of Jack Daniels, informing them that this is my favorite liquor by far. Their response was to give me a high five and one of them carefully took the bottle from me. When I told them Coke was on sale and would be a perfect fit for their Jack, they gave me another round of high

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