My mental mom springs into action when I step into a store, weighing in on my choices like a snappily dressed Greek chorus.
In the minute-long internet adverts, a young blonde woman named Brittany stands in a bridal store weighing which dress (er, candidate) to choose.
"I used to work in a grocery store weighing peanuts and raisins into bags.
Its stores were weighed down with mighty debts, and then the liabilities serviced by sweating the staff and maximising payments from the NHS, whether or not its patients needed the services billed for.
Now the wheat had ripened, yellow-eared in the fields, and every day I sat in the farm stores and weighed the bags of threshed grain as they were brought bouncing in on trolleys, the farmhands perched atop the bags, ready to unload.
A store assistant weighed 25 kilograms of wheat in a steel canister and transferred it to an empty sack for her.
Growing up on Long Island, I had two choices for styling my hair: John Frieda Frizz-Ease Hair Serum from my pharmacy, which left my curls crunchy; or Queen Helene Cholesterol Hair Conditioning Cream from a nearby African-American beauty supply store, which weighed them down.
You might think the fellow would have considered this trade advantageous, but in fact he sat on the stoop of the drygoods store and weighed it for some time.
From 1987 to about 1994, Alite told the FBI, the pair shared an apartment on 85th Road in Woodhaven where they lived and where they "stored, cut, weighed and packaged" the marijuana and cocaine they were dealing in a number of Queens bars that Junior Gotti controlled.
These categories were identified size by size in a department store and weighed so that the mean weight of the clothes for each age could be subtracted.
