I was at Fred Meyer the week after Christmas and they were clearing out their whole inventory of Christmas goodies. I stumbled upon a gimmicky Rudolph shaped lollipop. The stick of the lollipop was clear plastic and housed a red LED. The point of the pop is to pull out the paper tab battery guard and lick Rudolph into oblivion while the stick blinks with delight. Naturally, at 75% off, I had to buy this for Lisa.
I brought the pop home and present my cute present to Lisa with delight. She was, as usual, happy when I showed up with sugar in tow. Although, she didn't seem nearly as fascinated by the wonders of modern electronics as I was.
The next day, Lisa decided to pull the tab and eat the pop. Emily, our little distruct-o, begged to play with the stick and promptly lost the tab. I showed up from school to find a blinking lollipop stick lying around the living room. That was Thursday. It's still blinking. It's been six days. I find this somewhat disturbing. Now I'm starting to wonder if it's housing a minture camera that's recording my consumer habits.
Somwhere, in a dimly lit laboratory, a brilliant scientest was working out the perfect combinations of chemicals to produce the ultra-efficient LED. Meanwhile, a lollypop marketing "executive" was in a drunken stuper after yet another executive "brainstorming session". If only the company could just find that one product to save them from going under. And now, thanks to the blood, sweat, and tears of a scientest and a strange confluence of events know as the "captitalist soap opera," the world is perkier place. After all, what good is science if it can't make a better lollipop.
Posted by enigma at January 11, 2005 10:45 PM