Funny Finds

As I go about my day in Chitown, I often run across funny things (they're funny to me at any rate). Here are a couple of them.

I don't know whether they do this nationally, but at several local coffee shops when they give you coffee to go, the sleeves are different. Instead of the plain brown, recycled paper or the shop's logo, you now get an advertisment for another product. A recent sleeve I got with my coffee was pink with a red band at the top and bottom. It says:

Eat.
Drink.
And Still Be Merry.
Happy Holidays.

And then there's the Pepto Bismol logo and: Think Pink. It made me start thinking about effective advertising. Pepto should come out with ads printed directly on toilet paper. I think that would be much more appropriate, don't you?

Then there are the Missed Connections. I love reading the ads in the alt-weekly where people try to find that guy they smiled at on the train, or the girl they saw jogging at the park. Here is one I found recently:

You: Hispanic male in red Astrovan with open passenger window, drove by bus stop twice, exposed yourself on second round to two young women waiting for bus. I was the one who didn't report you to the police. I thought we had something.

My first guess is that this ad is fake or, if it's real, that they're trying to nail the guy in any way they can. But man, what if it were real? This is why I get so distracted living in this city. So many words and stories surround me.