Friday, August 21, 2009

High on the hog in Chums's Corners

Today I drove by America's Carpet Barn in Chum's Corners, Michigan, where pigs fly. Yes, when you think of getting new carpet, shouldn't you think of airborn swine? The building, to the left, is decked out in patriotic and porcine finery.

But what is more interesting is the pig person dancing alongside the highway. Click on the video below to see the crazy hog dance. He or she is really getting into it.

I've never had a job where I've had to do that. But in this area, I've seen men in either an Uncle Sam outfit, or a green Statue of Liberty, dancing alongside the road in cold weather during tax time. Or the poor sap who was doing duty in a huge balloony Mongolian Barbecue mascot costume (similar to the one seen here), standing on the corner of a busy 6-lane intersection in a high wind, in danger of being buffeted into traffic.




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3 comments:

Ananda girl said...

The video was hilarious. I have felt sorry for those folk. What a job.

A few years ago my youngest flipped off a dancing ice cream cone... I stopped the car and made him go over and apologize.

The ice cream cone told him "You're only about the 30th today. But thanks kid."

cube said...

How delightfully porcine.

We have people dressed as subs (sandwiches not the naval kind) and we have a vacuum cleaner store that has mechanical gorillas dressed in jerseys from local teams. They used to wave at passersby, but they're stationary now.

Natalie said...

The one that always gets me is the people who have to stand outside Little Caesars with signs that say "Hot and Ready". Invariably, it is a poor 17 year old girl. I always feel so bad for them.