There was an old lady who lived in a shoe. She conceived
what can only be considered an implausible number of children for a woman who
lived in a cramped one-bedroom, but there they all were, living in abject
poverty, thirteen people living where only five toes belonged. Yet this poverty
did not last for long. Not in the age of Youtube.
One video was all it took for her soleful family to viral,
and for CNN and Wired to herald her as an economic genius, making shoe-life
work in a bad economy. Warren Buffett invited her to lunch, and she hosted the
first-ever TED Talk from a Footlocker, on the wisdom of laces and how to expand
your personal spaces. Before the end of the fiscal quarter, she was a real
estate tycoon, able to flip any property into a spacious dream house.
She only started as an old lady who lived in a shoe. She was
a visionary, and I believe she invented the Tardis.
But what did she do (apart from propagate) before she became an old lady?
ReplyDeleteHehe. YouTube - it can make anyone famous.
ReplyDeleteI think we saw something like that in real life...
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting story.
ReplyDeleteCool! But why is it called "Tardis" if it's a time machine? You'd never be tardy with one, after all.
ReplyDeleteShoot, technology these days. Even old nursery rhymes don't make sense anymore!
ReplyDeleteNecessity is the mother of all invention. Rock on, Old Woman. Rock on.
ReplyDeleteHey! *I* used to live in a shoe!
ReplyDeleteI did not expect it to go that way. Love the last line, especially the part about the Tardis. =D
ReplyDeleteFirst ever TED Talk from a Footlocker? Love it! The old lady sure is getting around - I saw her on a commercial for cell phone plans the other night.
ReplyDeleteHa! Thanks for the laugh that was funny. Btw I've always wondered who evented the tardis ;)
ReplyDeleteThis is a great twist of the old fairy tale! And it's very and sadly true happening all over the world nowadays...I start to talk like a grandma!
ReplyDeleteInvented the TARDIS! hahahaha
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