scribefindegil:

i was doing that thing where you go to a hardware store for craft purposes and keep having to explain to the employees that no, you don’t need help, and yes, you really do need to just wander through every aisle in the store and poke at everything made of brass, and after half an hour of this the elderly shopkeeper asked me yet again if he could help me find anything, but this time when i said no he stared at me for a moment and seemed to have some kind of realization.

“ah,” he said, “you’re Creating.”

and then he smiled sagely and walked away.