I was heading to Best Buy when I was approached by young raggamuffins in the parking lot selling candy to allegedly keep them off the streets. The lead youth had a good marketing ploy to make me feel safe with his sales pitch: the fist bump and a compliment. For those pigmentally challenged folk the “fist bump” is a ghetto handshake that made its way into pop culture where one youth’s fist comes in contact with another youth’s to demonstrate a “hello” without giving up too many germs. Clearly a gesture inspired by Captain Planet or similar super hero comics and the joining of the rings.
When I fist bumped this youth he said “hey big man, think you can help…” something something blah blah. I was actually distracted because I had to see if I agreed with him. Was I in fact a big man? Did this youth lie to my face in order to get a sale? After much thought I decided to accept the role as “big man” and offer my support to this teenager.
But I didn’t have any change on me so he said “then I’ll hit you up on the way out maybe?”
“Maybe, man. Maybe.”
I stayed in Best Buy long enough to avoid the boy, which worked well since I didn’t make change inside the store.
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