Saturday, June 6, 2009

kiosks

Can someone tell me when in this society we started telling people to put an entire store on a cart in the middle of an aisle at the mall and call out to passersby telling them they needed this! a new motorized helicopter! a cuticle cream! a new straightener!* by means of harassment and verbal assault? Because I think this causes nothing but dissension. And does our society REALLY need more dissension? Let's bring the consumerism back into the stores, okay?


**At Oak Park mall, there used to be this kiosk outside F21 that sold straighteners. They would always do everything in their power except literally grab your chin to make eye contact. They'd be all, YOU! HEY YOU THERE! DO YOU USE A STRAIGHTENER?! To avoid this nuisance, I once was all, Yes, thanks! And they were all, COME SEE HOW WELL THIS ONE WORKS. The next time, having learned my lesson the hard way, I responded by saying, NO, thanks! And then they said, COME SEE THIS ONE. This, you crazy foreign straightener-pushers, is called a TRAP.

3 comments:

bec said...

MARA. i wrote a blog post about that very straightener kiosk a while back! i hate it. that one, and also the dead sea skin products one. and all of them.

I Dream of Scotland said...

I like to go and talk to kiosk people. They need love too.

Unknown said...

Hahahahaha, o mara, i miss my class with you already.

Did ya do well in it, by the way?