Monday, September 18, 2006

Reality in Wobegon.

It was so appropriate I actually wondered if it was staged, or planned. But I've decided that this thought was more a case of my pessimism, and indeed, what I saw was very much natural. ...

This past Saturday the family and I spent some time at the Mall of America. We were just about ready to leave when I wanted to stop at the Lake Wobegon USA store, there on the third floor of the mall. I walked in to this very Minnesota, very "natural-ish" store, and the woman behind the cash register was actually sitting there and cutting coupons from the newspaper!

When was the last time you saw someone clipping coupons? Could anything be more appropriate than a woman in Lake Wobegon, USA clipping store coupons? Could you actually plan, and put into action, that kind of "reality touch"?

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