Friday, July 18, 2008

Maybe you can't buy love


















But you can box fun! This is a box of 25 wrapped pieces o’fun, which is really quite a lot of fun when you get right down to it. These guys know fun, too—check out a few of the samples. I see two whistles, a little set of maracas (fun!), a die, a plastic game of tic-tac-toe, a top, a toy airplane, and several increasingly small and difficult to make out pieces o'fun, which may well be much more enjoyable than the big, obvious items like the plastic xylophone. Are those peace signs or Mercedes Benz hood ornaments or tiny Speed Racer steering wheels? Is that a blimp ring or a blimp keychain, or just a blimp dangling a yellow circle o’fun? I don’t know. And I don’t care, as long as I’m having my fun. (Ooh, is that a plastic sheriff’s badge, and a tiny plastic toy gun? I think so!) I’m on tenterhooks waiting for my box o’fun to arrive. Every car that drives by has me racing for the front door, hoping it’s the UPS guy. The suspense of not even knowing what some of the fun is going to be—that’s the stuff dreams are made of. You’d have to buy 25 boxes of Cracker Jack to get as much fun as is contained in just one Box o’Fun!