Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Bathroom Monologue: LIVE from the Shoe



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.

13 comments:

  1. But what did she do (apart from propagate) before she became an old lady?

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  2. Hehe. YouTube - it can make anyone famous.

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  3. I think we saw something like that in real life...

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  4. Cool! But why is it called "Tardis" if it's a time machine? You'd never be tardy with one, after all.

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  5. Shoot, technology these days. Even old nursery rhymes don't make sense anymore!

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  6. Necessity is the mother of all invention. Rock on, Old Woman. Rock on.

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  7. Hey! *I* used to live in a shoe!

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  8. I did not expect it to go that way. Love the last line, especially the part about the Tardis. =D

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  9. First 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.

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  10. Ha! Thanks for the laugh that was funny. Btw I've always wondered who evented the tardis ;)

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  11. This 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!

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