Malls are making a comeback thanks to Gen Z and I featured one in a Tomversation cartoon from this week. Stanley tumblers and an old man named Stanley are featured, too! For those who listen to this post, (I found out recently people listen rather than read this), there is a cartoon above and one below. You might want to see them since this story is about them.
I got the idea for this Stanley cartoon from my neighbors. We have a text string with everyone on it and one neighbor, who is always texting nonsense, sent a nonsense post, but it worked out in me getting the cartoon idea.
She and her husband are snobs and while we all live well, no one here is a snob, not that I have noticed, so whenever they pull their snobby bullshit, it stands out.
So little miss thing texts the other night – “Hi everyone. Left my pink Stanley on the table (in the lobby) and went back to look for it but it was gone, maybe someone took it by mistake.”
I knew what she meant right away, instead of saying she left her “tumbler” on the table, she had to announce it was a Stanley. It’s just the way she and her obnoxious husband are. It’s about the hard-to-get brand name item, rather than the item itself. I wouldn’t put it past her to not even have lost the Stanley, and perhaps was just saying she lost it to sound posh.
I thought of texting back, “Pink Stanley? Is that your baby’s name? They have a baby who they dote all their time on. Even told me to “Shush” more than once (once in my own apartment) because Pink Stanley the baby was sleeping.
My mind started wandering, I knew there was a cartoon in there somewhere. I thought of Pink Stanley being her dog on the table, then I came up with the double meaning cartoon.
A few neighbors texted back, asking, “What is a Pink Stanley?” or “What does that mean?”
She replied back that it was a tumbler.
One clever neighbor replied, “Stanley. He’s such a great guy!” And I knew he got it.
I like the double meaning cartoon, I’m thinking of doing it more often. Some time back I did this one about “10 pounds,” which has two meanings.
I’m dying to know if she got her Stanley back and if not, who may have taken it. I don’t believe anyone in the building would touch it, perhaps the maintenance man put it in storage somewhere, thinking he did someone a favor, I wouldn’t put it past him.
Would the Amazon, FedEx or UPS driver take it? I doubt it.
I guess we could look on our camera system and see what happened, but honestly don’t really care, although it would be interesting to know.
If I find out, I’ll let you know. Perhaps it was just part of the Universe’s scheme to give me a cartoon idea. Who knows.
Till next time . . .
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