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Stranger Than Wal-Mart

"Some 138 million Americans shop at Wal-Mart each week, making it perhaps the single most unifying cultural force in the country."
Chris Anderson, The Long Tail

Thursday, September 01, 2005

Chelsea's Interesting Fact Expanded

I'm an indecisive person. That wasn't actually the interesting fact that I wrote on the card. It's just a little background information leading up to the admittance that I did, in fact, write two facts on the little yellow card. I will expand upon the second one.
My family has a farmhouse in Mt. Pleasant, Utah. If anyone has been there, they would know that it is a particularly small and dusty place. Anyway, one weekend while my family was there, my mom and I went shopping in the museum gift shop. It shouldn't really be called a gift shop so much as a thrift shop because most of the items there are from peoples' basements. Although it's all rather charming. On this day I discovered the most glorious item that I would ever purchase from there: a stuffed Pillsbury Doughboy. He looked at me with his round, blue, plastic eyes and I knew I had to have him. I also bought him a hand-done doily which I fashioned into a cape.
Since then, I have had an obsession with the Pillsbury Doughboy. I love all his commercials and will buy the Pillsbury brand even if another one is cheaper.

2 Comments:

Blogger wheatable said...

Now THAT is an interesting fact.

Everyone should have a secret obsession with something like the Pillsbury Doughboy.

8:51 AM, September 02, 2005  
Blogger Karalee said...

Cool. I wish I had a Pilsbury Dough Boy. He's so cute! It reminds me of my obsession with the snuggle bear when I was little. I still think he is really cute, and I want a stuffed animal of him.

2:19 PM, September 02, 2005  

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