On a recent shopping excursion to buy my nephew some shoes for his birthday, I got schooled.
He mentioned he wanted a pair of shoes, but for the life of me, I couldn’t remember the name of them. So, thinking the logical thing to do would be to ask the store clerk - and my best attempt was “do you have any of those Ice Bling Man shoes?”.
The clerk just looked at me funny and asked “what?” and of course, I repeated the request - mind you, I thought this was the name of the shoes…I turn to my nephew and ask him and he looks at me like ‘I don’t know this lady’ and I feel like a complete arse.
Finally it came to me - the Birdmans…but my question is - if all you remember from the commercial was 1) a rapper; 2) who possibly has ice in his name - or is wearing a whole lot of “ice”; 3) mentions “bling” while wearing a whole lot of bling; and 4) you distinctly remember the word “man” mentioned at the end of the name…wouldn’t the logical conclusion be “ice bling mans” - I think I’m getting old…
April 12th, 2005 at 10:43 pm
That’s hysterical! I had a similar experience this Christmas standing in the toy store trying to get a 12 year old stranger to identify the toys that “were kind of like tops but they attack each other”
Next year I think I’ll just write it down…
April 12th, 2005 at 11:02 pm
It’s nice to know I’m not the only one
- that’s a good concept - writing it down…hmmm, gotta try that next time
April 18th, 2005 at 9:14 pm
Where are you girl??
April 18th, 2005 at 9:18 pm
wow - has it been that long already? I knew it’s been a while, but…
to answer your question…I’m in the land called *busy* - it’s a far far away land and the fog is so thick you can’t even see straight…hopefully I will find my way out of this land soon…