Friday, September 21, 2007

What's the hold up?!

Today, Court and I were heading home after work and sat in quite a bit of traffic for a while. We were creeping along and finally saw a cop cruise up on his motor bike. He starts riding through directing traffic, blowing his whistle, and driving at the same time. He was desperately trying to keep traffic moving and not disturb what was holding up everything. Is it a protest? Is it somebody famous? Is it a big sale on dried shrimp? Well, we get closer to the source, we hear blarring trumpets, sliding trombones, and cheerful clarinets. It was definitely a small parade of some sort. Oh wait! They're pushing buggies from the grocery store. Then, here comes a guy to our car window and throws in a bottle of water and a coupon book. We busted out laughing....this small band of enthusiasts are walking the streets in sweltering weather to announce the grand opening of a new International Tops Market grocery store. Who knew that a parade of 20 people celebrating the opening of a grocery store could back up traffic for miles!?!? Gotta love it!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey---wonder how long the line would've been if they were giving away beans, taters and cornbread? bust my gut!-------love m0m

Katie and Justin said...

Wow! I have been in marketing for a while now, and I definilty have to say these folks know how to hold a grand opening!!! Impressive. Everybody loves a parade, right? Speaking of, we got caught in a similar parade right here in DC a couple days ago. The kinda parade thats pretty common around here....lots of fancy black limos, big guns and sirens..and here comes the VP of the USA. I think they ought to wheel those guys around in FOrd Tempos with tinted windows. Seems safer to me...who would expect Cheney to fit in a Ford Tempo, ya know?

 
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