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April 2007 
Dressing Like a Smoothie - a Life Lesson
Posted on Apr 12th, 2007
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(Crossposted from www.whatsyourmotto.com)
Kevin Salwen on Culture
On Saturday, on a street near me, there was a guy dressed up as a smoothie -- you know, with a big rubber suit shaped like a cup with a straw coming out of it. On Sunday, a guy outside the Verizon store across from the smoothie store was dressed in a cell phone suit. The nice lady at the register at Caribou told me they are the same person, who gets hired by both companies to stand on the street and bring customers into the stores. It made me wonder if the guy gets up in the morning and decides: "Do I feel more like a smoothie today, or a cell phone? Should I slap on the pushable buttons or the big striped straw? Do I feel fruitie or techno?" So many choices.
Also on Saturday, a man dressed up as Uncle Sam, with a tall striped hat, was pitching apartment rentals down the street. My son remarked that he thought that was the dumbest job he'd ever seen, especially since it was a cold, blustery day. I explained that Sam also didn't get paid much. So, we concluded that there was a direct correlation between crappy pay and bad outfits. And that there was a broader life lesson there: Dress for success.
I should have taken my own advice: I nearly got kicked out of a private club today for wearing jeans to a meeting. Live and forget to learn, I guess.
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