Just wonderin’…
Who would want all those lamps?
When I was a kid, I’d sometimes watch a daytime game show. Many times
the prize would be so many dollars’ worth of Quoizel Lamps. I’d think to myself
“Who would want all those lamps? Don’t they already have lamps?” I could
understand advertisements for things that got eaten, or used up like toilet
paper, or even wrecked, like a car. But lamps?
Even today, watching shows like “How It’s Made” I wonder who would
want all those pocket knives, or wristwatches, or surf boards, other doo-dads. Don't surfers already have surfboards? I don’t need
them, how come they make so many of them?
Dumb of me, I know, but the consumption of such things, I call them
“things you didn’t know you didn’t need,” is still a mystery to me. It’s a good thing that there aren’t too many
others like me, otherwise our economy would stagnate.
By very strange coincidence, my stepdaughter works for Quoizel and has
done so for over twenty years. Good company – they make a lot of lamps.
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