Somehow, a mystery soft-drink cup has relocated to our home. Margaret and I noticed it on the dining room table the other day; it bore the proud inscription, “Kum & Go” in big red letters. Each of us looked at the cup, realized that we had never seen that cup before, and gazed at the cup in puzzlement. “When did that get here?” say I. “I don’t know,” Margaret answers. “I put it there,” Pippa tells us; “I’m having a drink of water.” When we indicated that we wondered how she had obtained it, she told us that she’d gotten it out of the cupboard. (Parents can be so very dense.)
After we explained that we were more interested in the question of how that particular cup arrived in our kitchen, the whole table went silent. None of us had ever been to a Kum & Go, so far as we knew, nor were we aware that we knew anyone who had been to a Kum & Go.
So we had to Google it — whereupon we learned a great deal, primarily that we weren’t the only ones who found that business name outlandishly absurd. If Kevin Smith had incorporated it into a Jay and Silent Bob movie, we’d have moaned and rolled out eyes at what a dumb gag he’d just inflicted on his audience. But it’s real, and it’s the subject of serious concern.
And we still don’t know how that cup got here — though we have our suspicions . . .
Posted by AKMA at July 16, 2004 10:50 PM | TrackBackAnd don't forget this one, from about a year ago: http://www.thispublicaddress.com/archives/000408.php. It was the first one we had seen, and we were appropriately astonished.
Posted by: Krista at July 17, 2004 10:45 AMI was trying to figure out how I missed that one, Krista, when I realized that you probably posted it while I was on the choir tour. Thanks for adding to our collection!
Posted by: AKMA at July 17, 2004 03:00 PM