Oh, the wonderful world of temp work . . . you never know what you may end up doing. This weekend, Jenna and I had the pleasure of working the Jelly Belly Sport Bean booth at the Boulder Triathlon. Job description: Sit at a booth and give people samples of a product we know very little about and have never used (at least not while exercising). What we actually did: sat at a booth, read information about the product off of a box, and tried to be as convincing as possible that it would work . . . we're guessing it does since most people were ecstatic when they saw us giving away free samples. While doing this, we made up a game. We both chose several words/phrases that we had to work into our conversation with customers. For each word/phrase used, a point was given. Here's our list:
1. juxtaposition
2. magic beans
3. neither here nor there/neither fish nor foul
4. til the cows come home
5. for crying out loud
6. scrumptious
7. refer to the marathon that we ran together in '97
8. blasting with flavor
9. ask the customer if they think it would be a good idea for jelly belly to make a buttered popcorn flavored sport bean
I think Jenna won . . . I had a lot of trouble working several of them into the conversation . . . I did alright with "juxtaposition" and "magic beans," but it's so difficult to talk about the marathon in '97 without laughing in the customer's face. Great game though. My favorite moment: When Jenna simply blurted out the word "juxtaposition," totally by itself. So funny. Pretty sure people thought we were drunk.
By the way, people who run triathlons are out of their minds. Get this . . . they swim a mile, then bike 26 miles, and then run a 10k. I think the guy who won it today did it under 2.5 hours. Insane. And 1500 people chose to do this today.
P.S. My semicolon button is now completely broken. I can't tell you how annoying this is . . . must get it fixed this week.
4 comments:
Judging by the way I look in this picture, I am not suprised they thought I was drunk.
For crying out loud, this will have me laughing 'til the cows come home.
This is neither here nor there, but I am disapointed that you didn't use the word sesquipedalian, my altime favorite word. Whenever I am asked, "what's the word"?, my answer is always, "sesquipedlian"!!, and I am usually looked at with disdain and confusement. Anyway I will use that word til the cows come home.
When I first heard of your semicolon problem I thought we may need to send money for immediate medical attention. I would think anytime that even half of your colon falls off you should be rushed to urgent care, although in this case I guess the Apple store will be the urgent care facility that you will need to get to. You could try jamming some majic beans into your hard drive, although that does not sound like a good idea either.
Good luck with the house hunting.
Love, Daddy
Haha...I actually got free samples of these in the half marathon I ran - they are very yummy when NOT running - very sugary and disgusting when actually running. Sort of the opposite of what you need at the time...Just my opinion :)
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