It was 3:45 am this Sunday morning and had a skull crushing headache. We were visiting NY City and the Blue Moon drafts from dinner at ESPN zone along with some dehydration from walking our asses off left me with quite a headache that hit full swing at that early hour.
I called the front desk and the only source of Excedrin was a block away from Times Square. Screw it, there was no sleeping with this brain cramp so I threw on my sneakers, left my baggy kind of pajamas on and trudged out into the city. 20 steps from the hotel lobby were the working ladies and their man asking me what I was looking for. “Excedrin” I mumbled and on my way I went. I finally found Excedrin at a news stand and stepped out to munch them down.
On the corner was a guy slinging weed and casting a pretty wide net as he marketed his product. Literally saying “coke and marijuana” to every one that passed by. I was pretty amazed being a marketer watching this guy. Mr Sling took a look at me standing there in my pajamas and two days worth of beard and asked if I was OK. Told him I had a headache and was munching on an Excedrin. He took the opportunity to tell me he has something that will take care of my headache. I laughed and appreciated his “concern” for my migraine.
When I got back to my room, still squinting from this head thumper I’ll be damned if I wasn’t running through scenarios and if in fact a fattie wouldn’t take care of this unrelenting headache.
I like to listen to my inner voice that want’s to buy stuff. I always try to see what it is that is making me think about converting on someone’s pitch. It’s pretty cool that a lot of what we need to know about marketing is happening inside and around us every day.
Now I just need to know what it was that made me buy this damn $600 iPad from the uber shiny NYC apple store. Apparently Apple is peddling something even more attractive to me than “teh sticky”.
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