Vampires Go Clothes Shopping!

Wouldn't it be great to be able to shop freely taking whatever you like without having to pay for it? Of course, the vampires were stealing, but that's one of the advantages of being a vampire along with superhuman strength and invulnerability to sickness and, unless decapitated or staked in the heart, immortality. That was the greatest part of the sci-fi movie The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston. Believing to be the last man on earth he went into stores taking whatever he needed and taking whichever car he liked. After seeing that movie I remember remarking to my mother how great it would be to be the last person on earth and have everything to myself. She quickly listed off many disadvantages of that situation that would surely outweigh the one advantage of having everything in the world just for me.

Amy loves to shop for free dresses, but does so carefully so as not to make any of the shop owners suspicious.When Ruthie is feeling down Amy expects Ruthie to have her spirits lifted by shopping for a new dress just as she does. In fact, Amy uses dress shopping as a cure for any bad mood and is baffled when Ruthie fails to be cheered up by dress shopping. However, Amy is thrilled when Susie is delighted by Amy's shopping technique. Unlike Ruthie, Susie is very impressed by Amy's attitude toward shopping and is eager to devise ways to have even more luxuries than just fine dresses. Susie wants to take advantage of all the ways she can improve her life with her new vampire abilities but Amy and Ruthie are constantly oppressing her desires for fear of being discovered and destroyed.

In fact, Susie suggests that they clean out the pockets of their victims and use the money to obtain luxuries for themselves which is distasteful to Ruthie and terrifying to Amy who, as a rule, doesn't do business with humans for fear of being recognized, hunted and destroyed. Susie, citing all the strengths and advantages they now have as vampires, is frustrated and resents being so restrained when she feels the world is hers for the taking. She wants to hunt out luxuries for herself just as passionately as she hunts for blood.