Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Absurdity knows no season, no

Absurdity knows no season, no surcease.... last night I was walking home from the bus stop and saw a small square plastic purple wrapper on the sidewalk.  The ring-like impression on its surface suggested to me it was another prophylactic wrapper - since there’s parkland across the street from my house, it’s a fairly popular place for the occasional quickie.  Usually the wrappers are standard fare - Trojan, Sheik, Probation brand (for bad little boys), but this one - well, I didn’t want to check it too closely but it looked like a Hello Kitty condom.  It had the cartoon cat and the garrish purple background so beloved by that improbable character.  But I think if I were to market these I’d drop the “kitty.” “Hello Pussy” sounds like a much more viable shelf-identity for a lovesock.