What would you rather be doing right now?

“I’d like a cold beer, Coors Light,” Don Miller said. “Actually, Dos Equis, but you can’t get that on tap anywhere around here.” When I asked Don for some contact information, he asked if I was going to send him government propaganda. His phone number area code is Canadian; however everything he says and wears is stereotypically American.

Sonia and Melvin Heisler sit in the food court eating waffle cones filled with vanilla ice cream topped with strawberries. I approached them and asked what they would rather be doing. Melvin chuckled and said, “there’s nothing I’d rather do than finish off this here ice cream cone.” Sonia chimed in with a similar response, “there’s nothing I’d rather be doing. He’s 81 today.” 

Jasmine Goldtooth would rather be tattooing than working at Orange Julius in Bellis-Fair mall. She isn’t a professional tattoo artist but said, “It’s something I want to get into.” While she made an Orange Julius for a customer, she told me that she’s already given herself a few tattoos.