Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Direct marketing

Am at my $10 barber, the ambience enhanced by a Venga Boys CD. A standing ad offers me choices that make me realize and rejoice in my free will, like no born-again evangelist ever could make me.

For $388 I could get *unlimited* sessions of underarm hair removal. Specifically it was phrased "unlimited underarm sessions".  What am I, a minor goddess? Unlimited arms and underarms...

Furthermore, I can sign up "any large body parts" for hair removal. Yes, that is plural, not my typo. Do any of you have any to spare? Is there a potential business opportunity for Jack the Ripper?

And what is a "large" body part exactly? If it is signed up, will it take a taxi to get its hair removed? Must it be clothed? Accompanied? How will potential conflicts between body parts in the waiting room be resolved? Will there be any discrimination - say of the sagging (but big) breast or the bulbous belly?

So much to contemplate. I don't even want to know what the "complimentary large body parts" could be.

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