What was the point?
Sep. 24th, 2004 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyI was out running some last minute errands prepping for FenCon, with Maggie, and we drove past a U-Haul place. I saw they had a sign up, "Special on Tulsa, trucks starting at $116"
This made me think - what on EARTH is the point of U-Haul having a special like that? I mean, yeah, if you just so happened to be about to move to Tulsa, lovely, good for you. But that can't be a very large group of people in Fort Worth. What, do they think there's people out there who will see this sign, and then think to themselves, "Boy, I'd been living here just fine, but you know, Tulsa sounds interesting, I think I'll drop everything and move to Tulsa this weekend."
Reminds me of a Gallagher bit (the comedian, no relation, okay?) when he was talking about the settlers coming in to America. He talked about the covered wagon, "and if your covered wagon broke, and you were too dumb or lazy to fix it, that's where you stayed. There's all these towns with a little park at the edge of town with two broken wagon wheels. What, you think anybody set out for Tulsa?"
This made me think - what on EARTH is the point of U-Haul having a special like that? I mean, yeah, if you just so happened to be about to move to Tulsa, lovely, good for you. But that can't be a very large group of people in Fort Worth. What, do they think there's people out there who will see this sign, and then think to themselves, "Boy, I'd been living here just fine, but you know, Tulsa sounds interesting, I think I'll drop everything and move to Tulsa this weekend."
Reminds me of a Gallagher bit (the comedian, no relation, okay?) when he was talking about the settlers coming in to America. He talked about the covered wagon, "and if your covered wagon broke, and you were too dumb or lazy to fix it, that's where you stayed. There's all these towns with a little park at the edge of town with two broken wagon wheels. What, you think anybody set out for Tulsa?"