It seems like no matter where I go, there they are: people holding ad signs and dancing on street corners. They might be "advertising" for a pizza place, or maybe for taxes or whatever. It doesn't matter the weather outside, be it rain or shine, subarctic temperatures or scalding; these people get out there and they sell their merchandise (or services, whatever it be).
Sometimes they're dressed for the weather, and sometimes they're dressed up.
It seems like these Dancing Advertisers have been around for a long time; I recall my brother Vance saying (years ago!), "Those people are getting paid too much and not enough." You understand: the people who are paying them, well, they're certainly paying way too much for such a ridiculous service; on the flip side, these Dancing Advertisers aren't getting paid nearly enough for such a ridiculous service.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
What makes it even worse is when they're all dressed up. I've seen people dressed up as hot dogs, bananas, Uncle Sam...the list goes on.
What makes me most uncomfortable (or at least, I'd think, ought to make the Dancing Advertisers most uncomfortable) is when they are required to dress up, but they still have to show their faces. It's like, "You want me to dress as Lady Liberty and dance like a fool while holding this sign? Since I have no shame (and at the same time, no pride), I will do this for minimum wage. But please, please, please, tell me you've got a mask for me to hide behind!"
I guess I shouldn't judge; some people really like to dance. And BOY, do they get into it! They just put on their outfit, pop in their headphones, and away they go; boogyin' like it's going out of style.
And clearly, it should be out of style...
I was running an errand on lunch today when I saw this fella dressed like Lady Liberty and dancing like a fool. I want to say his sign said something about...loans?
This Dancing Advertiser was like a bad accident; so ridiculously painful that I couldn't look away.
These dancing advertisers usually make me uncomfortable, and they pretty much never make me want to patronize their specific restaurants/whateveritisthatthey'reselling...
He was really feelin' it...I apologize if this post offends anyone...
Dancing Advertising is just something I'll never understand...
Dancing Advertising is just something I'll never understand...
6 comments:
whatever pays the bills, bean
That's so funny, I think about that every time I pass one too..like seriously, you'd rather PAY a human to stand there and hold a sign rather than stick a post in the ground? I don't get it.
you have to admit, you're more likely to read a sign held by a dancing banana than you are to read one pounded into the ground, though, right?
I saw "Lady Liberty" yesterday. I'm pretty sure my exact thoughts were "I could totally bust out some Zumba moves if I could figure out how to do them with a sign in my hand.
This morning, I passed a 40-something-year old man just holding a sign for an oil change at Cardon's car wash. He wasn't dancing. I actually thought that I wanted to give him my business because obviously, they were slow enough to send him out onto the sidewalk. But, I just got my oil changed and I was late for work. They almost had me.
Maybe we're of different minds, but when I see a dancing human hot dog, I kind of want to eat a hot dog.
And I'd LOVE to get paid for doing Zumba on the sidewalk! As long as nobody recognized me ...
TOO MUCH...NOT ENOUGH!!!
Sometimes I think about how my 8th grade students want to be cool and accepted so badly... but I bet a majority of them would consider being a dancer. I think we are so desperate to make our own money which gives us more independence... even if it is at the cost of shame.
yup. yup and yup
I could never do this job, because i can't dance, and there is no mask and I would be bored out of my gourd, and you couldn't pay me enough... and I am sure they aren't paying enough.
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