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Dec. 22nd, 2004 12:07 pmLast day of work today for two weeks! I'm very excited about this. And in the spirit of excitement I've been eating chocolate and thinking about RayK in the shower. What?!
The office, 9:30 this morning:
The Boss: Would it be terrible if I had a piece of chocolate now?
Me: As a person who has already eaten a Kinder Surprise and a Toblerone, I'd have to go with 'no'.
Kinder Eggs! (Do you have them in the US?) I was so disillusioned this morning when I opened up my little plastic egg, looking forward to brightly coloured incomprehensible assembly diagrams and, if I was really lucky, sticker decorations... and you know what they had in there? A mini, pre-assembled 'Smart' Car. No kidding. The leaflet described it as a Ford Coupe and gave the Ford website. How disgusting is that?! Using children's toys to market adult products? Why not just stick a packet of fags and bottle of whiskey in there?! Apart from anything, it's rather incomprehensible. I mean, is a six year old going to approach their parent and say "Hey, there was this wicked car in my Kinder Surprise. Get one of them. It was a Coupe Ford Smart Car, Model C-140." And if this does happen, will the parent then reply: "Oh, ok, I'll get one now. I needed a new car anyway. Why not that one?!" I think not. It's product indoctrination, is what it is, and I don't like it one itty bitty bit.
In other news, I thought how great it would be if there was a story in which Fraser stayed over at RayK's one night, and in the morning walked in on RayK in the shower. Doing that thing that sometimes men do when they're in the shower. So I'm told.
If RayK also happened to be a fireman, that would be all good too. I'm just saying! ;)
The office, 9:30 this morning:
The Boss: Would it be terrible if I had a piece of chocolate now?
Me: As a person who has already eaten a Kinder Surprise and a Toblerone, I'd have to go with 'no'.
Kinder Eggs! (Do you have them in the US?) I was so disillusioned this morning when I opened up my little plastic egg, looking forward to brightly coloured incomprehensible assembly diagrams and, if I was really lucky, sticker decorations... and you know what they had in there? A mini, pre-assembled 'Smart' Car. No kidding. The leaflet described it as a Ford Coupe and gave the Ford website. How disgusting is that?! Using children's toys to market adult products? Why not just stick a packet of fags and bottle of whiskey in there?! Apart from anything, it's rather incomprehensible. I mean, is a six year old going to approach their parent and say "Hey, there was this wicked car in my Kinder Surprise. Get one of them. It was a Coupe Ford Smart Car, Model C-140." And if this does happen, will the parent then reply: "Oh, ok, I'll get one now. I needed a new car anyway. Why not that one?!" I think not. It's product indoctrination, is what it is, and I don't like it one itty bitty bit.
In other news, I thought how great it would be if there was a story in which Fraser stayed over at RayK's one night, and in the morning walked in on RayK in the shower. Doing that thing that sometimes men do when they're in the shower. So I'm told.
If RayK also happened to be a fireman, that would be all good too. I'm just saying! ;)
