Life The Indignity
posted by on October 29 at 11:33 AM
Shortly before this photo of a person dressed as a Quizno’s fountain soda was taken yesterday, this Quizno’s-fountain-soda-person was seen on another corner trying to fix a Quizno’s sandwich board that someone had turned so that the arrow pointed in the opposite direction. When you’re dressed as a Quizno’s fountain soda, you don’t really have much range of motion in the arms, and you can’t bend over so well either, so this Quizno’s-fountain-soda-person had to turn around the sandwich board by kicking it in a slow, incremental rotation. And then the sign collapsed and fell over anyway. The Quizno’s-fountain-soda-person struggled with the sandwich board, got it back onto its feet, kicked its two sides apart so that it would stand, walked a block down Broadway to hand out more fliers, and got its picture snapped by someone who would then go put it on a blog for people to laugh at.
OMG! I love SLOG. I'm dying right now. So funny.
Red Balloon Co. on 15th is hiring.
that dude made my fuckin day yesterday. i yelled at him I WANNA PARTY WITH YOU
Yes, high school kids would find this amusing.
God, this is so beneath me. Everything is.
And you did not even help him/her?
Doesn't Diana's law come into play here? I am recalling the Seinfeld finale...
Was the fizzy soda kid sip worthy?
Awwwww gosh.
There's a Quiznos on Broadway?
Ok, turning the sign is kind of childish. But honestly, Quizno's does kind of blow.
Stay in school kids.
The real question is: after this was all over, did you walk back to the sign and turn it the wrong way again?
I agree, if there is such a moment by moment, lengthy account of all the trouble this poor person had to endure, why didn't someone help him/her?
I would probably start crying if I had witnessed that...
Not to mention The Irony (of a sandwich shop not being able to keep its sandwich board in order).
It would have been so much funnier if you had doused him with gas and set him on fire. People with shitty jobs deserve ill treatment.
What Fnarf said. Besides, it would have been hilarious seeing a giant fountain soda in flames, flailing around the streets. Bonus points if he runs into a moving bus.
Gee, he sure is a tall drink of...
Gah, nevermind.
Christpher, the important question is did you tell him "mmm mmmm Toasty!" Wait, you don't have TV and probably have not seen the Quiznos commercials.
The 2nd lowest form of bum in old New York (1890's) was the sandwich board man. An individual who was so degraded by drink and undepenable that the only occupation left to him was a few hours of walking around with an advertisement slung around his neck. They were routinely derided and a favorite target of street urchins' missiles.
The lowest was the stumble-bum, who was so affected by long-term drink that he could no longer walk well enough to be even a sandwich board man.
It seems as if little has changed in levels of esteem for the modern equivalent of that job in the intervening century.
@16 with the Wilhelm scream
@20
Why...of course! Jesus! Amen!
Finally, a decent working class restaurant on Capitol Hill and none of this "cheesy gougere" crap!
Quizno's blows, @9? Really? Have you eaten there? Do you like Subway? Because EVERYONE seems to be okay with Subway, and it is positively mediocre in comparison. Hell, I eat there, and it's mediocre out of comparison. Quizno's is light yeas more tasty.
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