five thousand shades of blue
Wednesday, February 05, 2003
let me explain
The last post.
When my friend jones and I were working together for A Department Store Chain That Has Since Gone Under, we worked on the floor, restocking stuff from the back onto the floor. Later went on to unpacking clothing from their shipping boxes, and whoo boy, you wouldn't believe how horrid that stuff looks when it comes in. Anyway, it was the late 80s, the peace symbol was making its first noteable comeback as a cool symbol, and it was
everywhere. Except for these hats that we got in. I think they'd been sent from overseas... and someone got the symbol all wrong. It was missing the bottom middle 'leg' and was thus the Mercedes-Benz logo.
So jones and I for weeks afterwards would hold up our fingers, make the peace sign, and say, "Mercedes."
(So now you know. This really happened.)
is
this just not enough…?
