Here’s to you, mattress store marketers!
Is it hot enough for ya? I mean seriously, it’s hot outside. All the time. It’s been at or near 90 degrees for at least a week and it’s only the first week of summer. This is ridiculous. I’m a relatively healthy, almost still kinda young guy, and this heat is unbearable (the terms “healthy” and “young” are used very loosely in this instance). If I’m unable to function in this kind of weather, I wonder how other people are doing. Kids don’t seem that effected by it. I still see people running and walking and enjoying outdoor exercise. And that 90 year old man holding the advertising sign board on the side of the road seems to be doing just fine.
Wait….what?
According to my most trusted weather forecasting website it was 91 degrees this past Saturday. As I was driving into town at around 12:30pm I pass an incredibly old man standing on the side of the road holding a sign advertising the one day sale of a discount mattress store. He looked like he wanted to die. He could barely stand up straight, leaning forward and to the left a little. His head was down and his mouth was wide open. It was kinda like this, except the mattress store wasn’t kind enough to provide him any place to sit.
I was appalled. Who in their right mind would ask this old man to stand outside in the heat of the day to hold a freaking sign? I can’t imagine that he volunteered for that job. Is it a store policy that the sign board holder must be the same age as the temperature outside? I guess 91 degrees means a 91 year old sign holder. Are you trying to get people into your store on sympathy? If I buy 3 mattresses will you let that old man inside?
So here’s to you, mattress store marketers! If you keep hiring guys like this you won’t have to worry about giving them a raise since you’ve probably already had at least 12 of them die from sun stroke or some heat related ailments. I tried to see what, if anything, was written on the back of the sign but another vehicle was blocking my view. If I had to guess, it probably said something like this….
