A couple of days ago I had to go to a dealership to get my
car fixed. I am not implying that I don't want my car to have
children cheap adidas
prophere , because who am I to make that choice? More so, I was
sent a letter about a recall on one of the parts (the hazards, actually),
meaning that the dealership was obligated to fix my car while I watched
television and drank free coffee from a vending machine?
"This is quite a
deal," you may be thinking.
And I suppose it is. My philosophy was that
for every ten minutes I had to wait cheap adidas nmd
cs2 , I would drink a different variation of coffee. "That'll show
'em to recall my parts," I thought. It didn't matter that I was up all night, a
fact that may have been due more to the excitement of the day as opposed to the
caffeine anyway. But in truth, it's not this coffee that intrigued me earlier
today. It was the three-chambered snack machine next to it that contained
M&Ms, nuts and Mike & Ikes. Granted cheap adidas nmd
cs1 , Mike and Ike are both nuts as actual people. That much has
already been documented. However, the truly nutty aspect of this was a
typewritten note attached to this machine which read, "Please be honest: this
machine helps to find homeless children." Wow, to think that I thought this only
dispensed candy, when it actually has the power to locate lost kids. That's one
powerful machine cheap adidas nmd
c2 , even more so than the coffee machine which happened to double
as a hot chocolate maker?
I don't mean to personalize this column to
merely address one machine at a random car dealership of which I am not
mentioning the name. However, this is an example of what bad wording and grammar
can do for a dealership. Once others spot the sentence on the machine, no doubt
sobbing mothers will be pleading the machine to find long lost Tommy and Mary,
when in reality all the mothers will be offered is a handful of pistachios. Some
would argue that this is good enough, but I beg to differ -- because that's the
type of person I am...
Or cheap adidas nmd
r1 , maybe this isn't false advertising after all. Maybe this one
machine can find children by taking advantage of the fact that kids love
M&Ms. This is a fact just as well-known as broccoli being green, or greens
sometimes being broccoli. So perhaps the kids will smell the candy from wherever
they're at, and then come running to the dealership, hopefully looking both ways
while passing each of the parked cars...
Regardless of the actual power
of this machine, I left the dealership with fixed hazards cheap adidas nmd
chukka , as well as with the knowledge that there are some lost
kids out there -- and it's no wonder, considering that the only way we reach out
to them is by placing machines in locations they will never think to
enter...
But I digress.
Greg Gagliardi is a teacher and writer.
His stream-of-consciousness weekly humor column, "Progressive Revelations," has
been ongoing since 1998. ( ) Bicycle riding is a great way to spend time with
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