And I would like this person to invite me over to his or her home mansion so I can sprinkle those tiny, brightly colored elastics all throughout it. I would like to meet the genius who turned orthodontic rubber bands into the hot new must-have item among the juvenile set. For those of you lucky enough to not know what a Rainbow Loom is, it’s basically a combination of Silly Bandz and friendship bracelets. Why? Because the Rainbow Loom is a pain in the ass. I’m going to bet every parent with a school-aged child just grunted. Slap Bracelets=mini-blinds.Īnd now, there is the Rainbow Loom. Garbage Pail Kids=drawings of gross characters (my son makes these on a daily basis). But they are also the worst kind of fads: the fads that make somebody rich by forcing poor parents to spend hard-earned money on crap we can already find in our homes: Beanie Babies=bean bags. What do all these things have in common? Yes, they are all fads which kids at different points in history HAD to have. Bracelets of the Friendship, Jelly, and Slap kind.
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