Lucky Monkey

This morning on the way to work a nice man wearing a bright red polo cruising down Michigan on a segway (a la G.O.B. from Arrested Development) handed me two snack-sized boxes of Honey Bunches of Oats. No, no. He wasn’t a random crazy. He was an employed crazy from Kraft Foods handing out the honey roasted cereal to the sleepy-eyed, sluggish cubicle whores that regularly gather in the offices up and down Michigan Avenue. We were like sad monkeys pleading for a little banana- arms stretched, fingers twiddling for the little boxes.

Snatching my two boxes, I broke through the crowd, trotted to my office building, zoomed up to 32 and settled into my desk and in seconds, I happily munched on crunchy flakes and oat clusters before they sunk in my over-sized bowl brimming with milk. The lightly sweetened cereal was a nice break from my usual Smart Start.

And last week Gatorade set up a little putting green in the courtyard in front of my building and handed out their magical hydrating juice- in all the colors of the rainbow!

I must be a luck monkey to be working in such a high-profile area. (Ooooh… I wonder what big name company will hand out free goods next!) The marketing departments dream!