I was
playing pool with my friends, as was
usual, at the
Ball 'n' Cue on
Fort Street. I turned my head to
catch a line in the
standard pool song that was playing, and suddenly I thought, "
SEX."
I turned my head back and over again, knowing damn well I'd seen the word "sex", maybe on
somebody's t-shirt or something. You don't
mistake those things; "sex" is
scientifically proven to be the single most
powerful word in the English language (or it was
ten years ago, when I read that study). Anyway, I
knew it was there.
But the only thing really in my view was a 20-oz.
Pepsi machine (which, of course, sold
Mountain Dew and all the other varieties of
colored sugar-water that we like so much), and it was
all the way across the pool hall, about
forty feet away.
I had to
look four times, but eventually I saw it--The front of the
pop machine depicted a giant
picture of a
giant 20-oz. of Pepsi being dropped into water, splashing everywhere. From my particular
vantage point, the word "SEX" was
glaringly obvious in the water-splashes: Obvious, but hard to see only because you
wouldn't look for it there.
The
guys a few tables over heard me excitedly
explaining it to my friends, making them stand where I was and whatnot, and when it became obvious that
my friends could see it too,
everybody in the
pool hall went cuckoo. Pretty soon nobody was playing pool; we were all standing around the
Pepsi machine and showing each other how amazingly obvious the word "SEX" was, right there in the
picture. Even the
owner agreed that it was there and he could see it, though he was more
pissed off than
fascinated.
Of course, when I brought my
camera and my
official witnesses by two days later, the
Pepsi machine had vanished, replaced by one with a Mountain Dew bottle on the front. Damn, damn, damn.