I was driving this morning, and I smelled some sort of bakery smell on the street. Almost like a buttery type roll smell. It was amazing.
Then, this afternoon, I was running at the park, and I guess some people were grilling, so of course the aroma of meat and goodness was in the air.
All this brings me back to this idea I had the other day that I haven't had a chance to totally follow through with yet: Smellvertisement.
It's actually pretty easy this. Let's say you have a restaurant that's pretty good. Sure you can hand out some flyers, but I get shit flyers on my door all the time that I throw straight away. But imagine that if instead of signage, the restaurant just stuck like a box in the middle of an apartment complex that lets out this mouth-watering smell that represents their food. And then you can put up a sign somewhere that says,
"You like that smell? There's more where that came from. Eat at Pete's Steakhouse."Brilliant. You could also drop this stuff from helicopters. And maybe stick a free sample in too. So people could track the smell and get a free sandwich prize when they find it. I vaguely remember someone trying Smell-O-Vision in the early 90's. I think they handed out some scratch-and-sniff stuff and then you'd watch the show and this subtitle would come on that says something like,
"Scratch box 1. Smell it." Then the main character would say something like,
"Oh, man. Put your shoes back on, that smells terrible." Not the best idea. But the Smellvertisement™ is.
Labor Day is a pretty good idea, too. I think the government should work in at least 1 more of these random arbitrary holidays where everyone gets off (Memorial Day is one already). Sure, the economy is hit a bit because some businesses are closed, but travel increases and so does some consumer spending (food, beer, other fun stuff, etc.) Also, I've wondered how many lives are saved just by giving people a break. I'm sure some people are suicidal or homicidal but they look at their calendars and think,
"Well, at least Labor Day is coming up. That should be alright." And then they have a decent long weekend and their urge to kill is quelled. These are the things you can't quantify.
I was watching the UT game yesterday and I suddenly went into a strange joyous shocked double take when this came on the screen.
I was fixing to look at my watching companion and say something like, "Dravannti, that's a good name for a kid..." but then I noticed the Nederland, TX.
For those not in the know, that's the population 16,000 town where I grew up and went to highschool. We always do pretty good at football (being that it's on par with religion there), but no one really goes on to great things, especially not major D-I football. Also, you have to bear in mind that Nederland is 90% white and then only 1% black. So, not alot of dudes with names like Dravannti. Upon further investigation, this guy only went to Nederland his senior year, but that's better than nothing. I still consider him a Bulldog and I'm glad to see him representing my alma mater The University of Texas as well. Great day to be a Bulldog, and Hook 'Em, Dravannti.
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