How I wish that they put up some electric fans for the meantime. It’s so hard to work when your face kept sweating.
Me: “Good evening sir, how may I help you?”
Customer: “I want a good movie.”
Me: “Of course. I recommend Pan’s Labyrinth… it was excellent.”
Coworker: “You are aware that this movie has subtitles.”
Customer: “What the s*** is that?”
Coworker: “The words at the bottom you have to read. It’s in Spanish.”
Customer: “What the f*** is that? We’re in America, we don’t speak Spanish! I want it in American!”
(He storms off and promptly returns with Apocalypto.)
Me: “Sir, you do know this movie has subtitles, too?”
Customer: “What the f***? What is this country coming to? When did we become another country?! I want a g**d*** American movie! Where are the American movies?”
Me: “The store is full of movies made in America.”
(He walks back up about 10 minutes later with Letters From Iwo Jima in his hand.)
Customer: “This is the movie by Clint Eastwood, right?”
Coworker: “Yes, it is.”
Me: “And it’s really good, too.”
Customer: “Clint Eastwood is a real American. He knows what I like!”
(I give a look to my coworker who doesn’t say anything this time, and we rent him the movie. Too bad Letters From Iwo Jima is all in Japanese with English subtitles.)
Here’s a funny but seriously-sounding product description. Read it through and I’m sure you’ll be amazed at the cleverness of its copywriter.
Proporta Keyring with SIM Card Holder and Anti-Loss System
Description
Greek Guy: “Excuse me, how can I get to the airport?”
Me: “Just take a taxi.”
Greek Guy: “Ok. Thank you.”
Then just that, he opened the door of the taxi I was about to board. He went inside the car and the taxi sped off. I was left dumbfounded. When I turned around all the people behind me had the same look on their faces.
I couldn’t believe he stole my cab!
Funny thing was, although I should have felt angry, the truth is that I wasn’t. I smiled at the people behind me and said out loud, “Well, let’s just be kind to tourists.”
They smiled back.
I posed and took a snapshot of this family of koala during a very, very boring moment in the office.
Boredom really does weird things to everybody.
PinoyCopywriter
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Aug.26,2008
