Change For A Nickel

If you have change for a nickel I will give you my two cents.

October 17, 2002

So I’m eating my lunch and being very good with my meal. I had a lettuce and tomato salad with red wine vinegar, olive oil and a little tuna. This is a VERY good lunch for me. Anyway, I was still a little hungry for something sweet so I finished off a box of shredded wheat cereal (I should get a gold medal on my lunch alone!) and noticed some cool code thing for online stuff in the shredded wheat cereal box. Well I’m excited and I don’t even care that it’s through Yahooligan’s and is for kids. I just want my free download. I was hoping it would be some cool game! So I log on with my dummy Yahoo account. The reason I have a dummy account is for sites like this one. Yahoo has some partnership with Kellogg and they wanted my name, age, serial number, DNA code. You know, the usual. THAT’S why I have a dummy account.

So I login to this very cute Kellogg site with hippos and donkeys playing soccer. I guess eight year old kids like watching hippos and donkey’s play soccer in this day and age of blood and gore shoot ‘em up games. Anyway, I’m all excited about my online prize. I would even be happy with some decent coupons for Kellogg serial. That stuff is expensive! Well my prize was a picture from the movie Spiderman. ‘OK’, I say to myself. It’s kinda’ cheesy but I will take it. Can you believe it’s not even a picture of Toby McGuire in his Spiderman costume? Just some dumb ass picture of him with a camera! What the F**k!!?? So let me get this straight. If I were some eight year old kid expecting some really cool download from Kellogg I would have given this evil corporation my name, age and God know what else for a stupid ass picture of Toby McGuire?! Gotta’ love capitalism and the American marketing system!