Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Target Audience

What was I doing at 2 am this morning?
No, not sleeping!
Oh, um, no, not that either, sadly.
I was writing a really bad post. Wanna read it?

Holy crap I've got to go to bed.
But, you see, I fell off the caffeine wagon today. I swear, I've been doing SO GOOD, seriously, like NO caffeine, but then I hit the Mountain Dew, and those little cute cans aren't fooling anybody, you just down 5 instead of 1; they're like shot glasses of battery acid.

This is like drunk dialing, this strung out post I've got going on here. I'll lose all your respect in the morning if I post this thing.


Yeah, I know. There was more, but do we need further evidence of what really goes on in my head when I think no one is listening?

I was also frantically searching through blogs and found a wonderful one which I have linked to on the right there. Lovely writing and gorgeous pictures. Go check her out, I command thee!

Clearly, caffeine, like alcohol, requires a little more time in order to work its way out your system.

As for those little cans, it's all a marketing ploy. I know this. I'll even stand in the middle of the aisle and calculate in my head the value, ounces to pennies, of the new 8 oz cans to the 12 oz cans to the plastic bottles, weighing the recloseable top over....
well, you get the picture.

I am their target audience. If it is cute, I will buy it. Mini cans/bottles, 100 Calorie Packs, mini-muffins. At least I recognize my weakness for all things cute. Which means once I have kids, I'm so screwed. Not only will I be powerless to deny their every whim, they'll probably be caffeine addicts at birth.

2 Comments:

At 6/23/2005 9:44 AM, Blogger MC Etcher said...

Did our cave-man ancestors have the "cute is yummy" food lust too?

Probably. Don't clean the cave, let rats build up a bit of a population, and you have a ready source of cute lil pop-ems.

Especially baby rats, yum!

 
At 6/27/2005 10:43 AM, Blogger Kato said...

I could probably eat an entire box of donut holes from Dunkin' Donuts, but would scoff at the equivalent volume in actual donut form. And those mini Entenmanns cookies? Forget about it.

 

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