February 19, 2007
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Two Liberties – One of them Break Dancing
I’m preparing today for another town trip tomorrow. The last of our female cats, Tabby, is scheduled for spaying in the morning. I will be hauling her sister Fancy, whose surgery was done two weeks ago, around with me all day. Fancy has an appointment for suture removal at 4 PM when I go back to pick up Tabby.
Something today jogged my memory of the last town trip two weeks ago. It was a bizarre roadside scene that I had intended to report here, which had somehow slipped my mind until now. Apparently, the Liberty Tax Service has redoubled its efforts to attract business.
Their office is in a small complex off the highway near a major intersection. Every year for the last few years, from January through April, there has been someone standing at roadside in a Statue of Liberty costume, waving a placard touting the tax preparation service. I have blogged in the past about some of those costumed shills.
Most of them have apparently been men, judging from the various physiques that tax the dimensions of the one-size-fits-most costume, and the occasional beard that shows around the mask. Evidently instructed by their employer to move around and attract attention, most of the ones I have seen were strutting, jumping, or dancing as they brandished the sign. I told you about the fat, bearded one a few years ago who was stamping his feet as he raised not a torch but his middle finger to the passing traffic. I got the impression that his heart just wasn’t in his job.
Until this January, I had never seen more than one of them out there at a time. Last month as I drove by, I noticed one standing up wig-wagging a sign in each hand, with another man thrashing spastically on the ground at his feet. A double-take revealed that the spastic thrashing was apparently an inept attempt at break dancing by a grossly obese and masculine Lady Liberty with blue-jeaned legs flopping beneath a hiked-up skirt.
I can’t help wondering if the employer is offering bounties to these guys on the passers-by that they manage to attract and divert into the office.
Comments (7)
*chuckle* I remember them quite clearly– almost as well as I remember Greyfox’s scream costume- On occasion I would see them brandishing their signs as swords- although I kind of worry their antics could cause an accident at times..
Oh my gosh! I’d just have to pull over, make sure I had a barrel of popcorn and get my entertainment for the day. ROFL! Your description left a vivid image in my mind.
i saw someone out on the sidewalk doing that for that company… i think it is rather silly myself…but if they can hire someone to do that, then fine…giggles…. then i have to wonder if there are also clowns in the office that does the taxes! lol
lol… I’m sure that was a sight!
What’s REALLY creepy is that the break-dancing moron is an out-of-work CPA!
Well at least it did catch your attention though maybe not the attention that the proprietor wanted. Gave some jolly good laughs along the way.
maybe s/he was drunk?