International Randomness

My thanks to my friend Colleen for this one...

Whilst in Canada recently a man was seen walking down the side of a highway pushing an office chair on which was sat a case of beer. According to Colleen there was no apparent destination for his wanderings so unfortunately the questions that immediately spring to mind with this story will remain unanswered. At least he had somewhere to sit when he got there.

Been a while

It's been a bit of dry patch for random sightings... Not sure what's going on in the world but I've noticed a distinct lack of randomness or maybe it's just me growing up... I hope not.

Anyway to the point...

Recently in the UK (as the more eagle eyed readers (if there are any) will have noticed) it snowed. A lot. Whilst walking, sliding, falling over on my way home from work I saw a bloke with a cycle helmet on carrying a unicycle. I could barely stand up on two feet and know that cycling on a normal bike was difficult. But a unicycle?! Really?!

Not so cunning marketing strategy volume 3

A while ago a man came to my front door selling laminated flyers for people to put in their windows asking people not to try and sell them things on their doorstep.

Not quite sure he got the irony...

Overheard gem

Whilst walking home from work last week I heard the following whilst walking past two girls stood outside a Burger King...

"Do they sell burgers?"

Not so cunning marketing strategy volume 2

I went to the cinema last Wednesday. As I was going up the escalators from the car park I noticed two posters. One was a charity appeal asking for money to help children with cleft palates. There were several photos of children affected.

The poster next to it was for a well know brand of toothpaste with the tag line - 'Get the Smile'. Smiling down was a handsome man with a perfect smile.


Just struck me as a rather discordant piece of poster placement.

Insert humorous blog title here...

This one come from my friend Kim...

Whilst walking through the town centre one Sunday morning, she passed a row of cash points. At one of these a man in a balaclava was stood with a screwdriver fiddling with one of the machines. What was strange about this situation was that everyone (my friend included) just walked passed without challenging the guy...

Life is weird sometimes.

Not so cunning marketing strategy

Recently I walked past on of those advertising boards that has rolling posters in. This one had three posters on it. Two were healthy living posters, the other was a advert for fried chicken. Not entirely sure who decided that those posters should go together but they obviously weren't thinking too much that day.