Ah, to have the day off and to go see a movie. There’s nothing quite like it, especially if you take a lady friend along to keep you company.
The movies are less enjoyable these days… sigh. It’s those stupid commercials that they put in before the show… And now they play them before the lights go down too. This is the death of the romantic date. I find it hard to carry on a conversation with that idiot noise coming from in front of us. Is this how people with televisions live?
“Honey, could you…”
“Could I… What?”
“Uh… wait a minute…”
Fuck that noise. I could be staring into the crystal blue eyes of a beautiful woman or I can watch Antigone … What-ever-the-band-is-called whore themselves out to make a buck.
So, the lights go down and there is this… Coca-cola commercial. A girl about my age is sitting on a bench and she opens a bottle (or can) of Coke. Little bubbles fill the screen and some sort of bastard hip-hop swells in the theater and she starts dancing. She dances through a myriad of scenes where everyone is happy and dancing along to the music.
The girl I’m with taps me on the shoulder.
“That’s not a commercial for Coke, they’re advertising mushrooms!”
Uncontrollable laughter from my end. Good Lord, she’s right.
1. Bubbles. Obviously a hallucinatory effect.
2. Everybody’s happy. Last time I did mushrooms, I smiled and giggled a lot.
So I am to infer that Coca-cola would like me to believe that their product produces the same effects as mushrooms. Ha! If only. Mushrooms are hard to get.
Alas. it is a dirty lie these Coke-fiends propagate.