Door Bumpers and Bad Taste

Hello Everyone,

First and foremost, our apologies to our devoted fans (both of you) for not writing a blog for some time now. Like Miko said a few posts ago, not much is different in this little life of ours. Of course, small situations that make our heads turn happen here and there but they don't always seem that interesting afterwards. Anyways, here we go with the blog post.

So this is something I've been wanting to blog about for some time now but I needed to get some good photographic evidence first. Driving over here is not like it is back home (see previous post about getting hit by a car). Parking over here is very interesting as well. They do have one awesome thing in some parkades though. There is a light over every parking spot. If there is a car in it then it is red. If there is no car in it then it is green. You just have to look around for a green light and drive straight to the spot. Brilliant!! Difficult thing is that you will have about 3cm on either side of your vehicle to park. Needless to say, this country can fit a car into the smallest of spaces (although I've only seen one person who could actually parallel park well). Because of these small parking spaces they require what I call "door bumpers".

Now a door bumper is essentially that. It's a bumper that prevents your door from dinging another persons car. What I want to know is why do 90% of door bumpers look like this:



They are giant blue foam cubes that always stand out on any color car. I mean...seriously?!



Granted sometimes the rare car will invest in a fancy door bumper that actually matches the car color such as:



While taking these photos I did notice this nice little door bumper. It comes all "bejeweled" with fake diamonds and all.



I just don't get that when these different colored door bumpers are available, why are so many people opting for the giant blue foamy. I just don't get it.

Now, originally that's all this blog was going to be about but then I noticed a wonderful advertisement that I had to share with the world. It's a photo of a Samsung advertisement that caught my eye. I think it is probably a grand opening advertisement but the photo they chose to use is...well...take a look.



In case you didn't notice anything more than the average earthquake skyline, look again just under the "E". You are correct! That is a photo of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and they're falling down. Nothing says "come to our grand opening like memories of terror". Nothing but class ladies and gentlemen. Nothing but class.

Well that's about it for me. We've got a long weekend coming up so I'm sure we'll have a blog about that soon. We did go to a fancy botanical island but I'm gonna let Miko do that blog since I think she'll make it more witty and interesting. Hope you enjoy my ramblings and don't forget about us.