How come those guys who stand at the freeway exit ramps and in the median of busy streets never sell anything anyone actually needs?
No wonder no one ever stops. Because people are never in gridlock during rush hour trying to figure out what to make for dinner, when they see one of those guys standing on the side of the road, instantly reminding them what they realize they forgot to pick up at the grocery store: long stemmed red roses! or was it a bag or oranges?!
See, I fully believe those vendors could easily increase their profits exponentially if they just asked themselves this one question: what’s the one thing a person rushing to get home might actually need to buy, because TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
The answer is simple people! TOILET PAPER!
Because I don’t know how many times I’ve noticed I’m all out of toilet paper before I left the house at the beginning of the day, and on my way home, needed the facilities in a most urgent way. I’ll be sitting in traffic, thinking: “I could stop at 7-11!” ”Idiot!” my inner monologue replies, “There’s no time for that!” Left with no real alternatives, you find yourself having to make the kinds of decisions no man should ever have to make, just to arrive home in time for a photo finish (that analogy really doesn’t apply to this situation, but I like it because of the imagery it inspires…that is a man crouching by my toilet with a polaroid).
So, if in a few weeks I start to see guys by the side of the freeway peddling Charmin, you can tell everyone you know, that you knew me when I was just a girl with irritable bowel syndrome and a dream.