New one-shot story: Discontinued
Added 2020-06-30 22:59:22 +0000 UTCI wanted to finish the month on a light note, because let's face it: the planet is currently going through some things. We can go back to the relative shadows of Anchor Foal in July: closing out June seemed to require some attempt at a laugh. And I get ideas from strange places, or just carry over life into fiction. In this case...
...my mother's favorite shampoo was discontinued.
No, seriously. It's no longer being made. I'm told it's a great shampoo and like pretty much everything that works perfectly, it got pulled off the shelves for a different model. In this case, the name of the product line was given to something else entirely, which also works perfectly. Creating total disinterest within the marketplace requires a certain degree of negative perfection.
A shampoo which did exactly what it was meant to (in my mother's case, that meant protection of color treatments), taken off the shelves. It left me trying to find one more bottle, to buy her some time. It wasn't an easy search.
Now who among our cast could go through 8300 words of obsessing over shampoo?
Yep. See you in July.
Comments
Sometimes as simple as a marketing decision based on current circumstances. So many products are getting renamed or just plain deleted due to heightened racism criticisms now. So much of it by people who it doesn't even directly concern but just want to be seen causing problems, the SJW's of the world. Such a sad reflection on humanity.
Steve Lynx (Boulder)
2020-07-01 20:05:54 +0000 UTC
