Wiggle It!

Sign wiggly guy. That has to be the worst job on the planet. You have seen him. The zit faced teenager holding a sign on the side of the road going into convulsions. No matter how hard you try, you couldn’t look cool doing that. Go ahead, put the iPod on wiggly dude – maybe someone will think you are just dancing – with a sign. In the sun. All day. By yourself. With your sign.

My favorite is self storage sign wiggly guy. As if I would be driving down the road, see sign wiggly guy pimping storage sites, and say to myself ‘Self, you need a storage area, why not rent one from the pimply kid’. I don’t know, but storage areas don’t seem to be impulse buys – you know, the kind of thing that you might buy from a wiggly kid with a sign. $5 pizza maybe, a storage area – I’m thinking not.

You gotta know that your job sucks when you could be replaced by a stick. OK, I’ll be fair, a stick and a couple staples. Probably not as wiggly, but just as effective. Most of us could be replaced by a computer and some really good software, but to be replaced by a stick? Wow, that would suck. Significantly below average. The rest of us have the peace of mind knowing that computers are expensive, and that there is no such thing as really good software (except for maybe Asteroids – the first one). But sticks? Sticks are everywhere, and they are cheap.