Old Spice Update
As I mentioned before, I'm reviewing Old Spice body spray as part of their marketing campaign. This experience combined with their Xbox Live campaign from a couple months ago leave me impressed with their marketing tactics. Informal survey results remain about the same as in the previous post, but it did come in handy on our recent camping trip. We were the best smelling campers (until the campfire smoke overwhelemed the body spray). I have, however, had a couple of interesting experiences. Can they be directly attributed to the body spray?
1. I was sitting at the top of Mt. Rainier enjoying the sites. My friends had abandoned me to chat inside a building while ignoring the grandeur outside. A mother sits down next to me with her daughter. The daughter immediately puts her hand on my leg, then puts her arm inside mine, and finally jumps down in front of me and starts kissing my knee. Oh, I should probably mention that she was two years old.
2. I was sitting alone at the recent Keith Urban concert. My friends had abandoned me to search for a Keith Urban tshirt. Before I knew it, I was in the middle of a drunken cougar attack. I'm 27 and she clearly was in violation of the "divide by two plus seven" rule (that's also covered in the linked article.) I fended off her repeated advances while I watched time slow to an almost complete stop. After about three weeks of your Earth time, Tim and Chelsea returned to rescue me.
There are two patterns emerging here: advances by females wildly outside of my age group and abandonment by friends.
Are either of these related to Old Spice? The investigation continues!