Thursday, March 29, 2007

Notes from Los Angeles

1. Wearing a Timberland sweatshirt can result in a woman in a hotel elevator asking "Do you work for Timberland?" Man, what if I was wearing a Lakers shirt?

2. In Taiwan when you say you want to go to the airport, the hotel staff assumes you mean the international airport. In Downey, the hotel staff assumes you mean Longbeach airport. As if LAX is only for space launches to Mars.

3. TV commercials in the US now include ads for medicine that show old men splashing water on each other. (They can do that now after they've started taking Flomax which shrinks their swollen prostrates.) You can watch the commercial here.

The rest of the ads are 90% GEICO ads or ad to consolidate your adjustable rate mortgage.

I return to the land of Taiwan tomorrow.

4 comments:

P.I.M.P said...

Give me a call when you have some free time. I need to return some things of yours and have a visit with your family.

J-hole said...

Chile powder?

Red A said...

J-hole, I only made it to Ralph's once...and only had time for a beer run.

Chaon said...

You're better off flying out of that Long Beach airport to any other place and then flying back to Taiwan, than flying out of LAX.