#659 Visions

You know how you wander through life and every now and then, something just jumps out at you like a vision or something?
I was in Seattle visiting my brother. He had flown in for a convention. We were walking downtown and chanced upon a little pile of rubbish.
Little piles of rubbish are unfortunately not uncommon in major cities and almost always include the detritus of the homeless, or at least the debris of the temporarily-on-the-street people.
Such piles usually include a candy wrapper or three, but are never without an empty booze bottle of some sort, often two, at least one of which will most likely be a selection from the fortified wine department of your downtown mini-market.
This pile was of three latte cups. Yep. A triad of Starbucks containers—lids, mini-straws, and burn-preventative cup sleeves included. There appeared to be crumbs from either a scone or a biscotto as well.
“Look at that,” I remarked to my brother, “A bum rubbish pile featuring premium coffee litter—only in Seattle.”
Not long after that, I saw an interesting pink car coming down the road. It made think that maybe Mary Kay has come on hard times.
You may remember that in the Mary Kay heyday the prize you could win for being a super salesperson was a pink Cadillac.
You benefited by scoring a fine luxury ride and the organization benefited by having everyone notice this huge pink testimonial driving down the road.
All and sundry instantly identified both your successes and how potentially successful they too might be if they sold Mary Kay.
The car driving toward me the other day was pink all right.
But is was a Hyundai.
Hyundais are, of course, fine automobiles, but the contrast of a sensible, economical, small pink Hyundai and a giant, self-indulgent, luxurious pink Cadillac was enormous in my mind.
But hey, what do I know?
Maybe Mary Kay now has different increments of success. And you work your automotive way up to a Cadillac.
Or maybe Mary Kay is now into corporate responsibility, fuel savings, and conservation.
So the pink Hyundai is actually green.
America, ya gotta love it