Last weekend Jack and I went to his colleague's house warming party for a couple who just moved to the states from Europe. I was talking to the nice hostess about everything from household items to her career. She told me they were in the market to buy a new car, so I told her I saw a lot of car advertisements on TV showing many manufacturers have the biggest sales of the year now.
"Toyota, Volkswagen." I enumerated, feeling slightly self conscious about speaking for those companies.
Let me add a little context, it was our tradition to watch Christmas movies starting the beginning of December. We happily watched the first two "Santa Clause" movies that week.
The week after the party, we continued to watch the recorded "Santa Clause III," when I had a discovery in the middle of the movie, and I started laughing.
"You know, I told Ms. A that so many TV advertisements were showing car sales for the end of the year. But I got the idea from watching movies with advertisements recorded LAST YEAR! Oops, it seems like I gave my new friend last year's information."
So for the whole week, I paid special attention to the real time Colbert Reports just to confirm that indeed car companies are still having year-end specials, and I updated Ms. A the whole story yesterday when I met her in a holiday party.
I wonder if I'm the only one who has so many goofy stories to tell, but this one is pretty funny and very "Ying."
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