Calvin Klein advertisement displayed on a New York City bus in August 1995.
It’s 2008. The Great Recession has hit but it’s not exactly shook everyone awake yet. You’re in that kind of position where you think it’s temporary, like this is just a market correction and things will get better soon. But you’re a kid and your dad is still employed so it’s probably not too big of a deal anyway, right?
You’re sitting in English class behind the person you wouldn’t mind dating but wouldn’t ever work up the nerve to ask. It’s a Friday so you’re going off campus for lunch, but you almost wish to just sit in the cafeteria and eat your peanut butter crackers instead because all these meals at Arby’s are adding up.
Tomorrow you’re going to the county fair, which means you’ll have to probably eat something fried which you don’t care much for and will probably make you sick the day after. You’d like to go on the rides but tickets are 12 for $5 and that’s pretty expensive when every ride costs 2 or 3 tickets and why would you want to pay 83 cents to rent a burlap sack to use for twenty seconds to sit on while you ride down a slide. This is outrageous and you won’t stand for it.
Wall-E just came out and it struck a cord. You think it makes sense. You hate global warming also and definitely think it exists and is bad.Remember that fish that you got from the pet store and it died exactly three weeks later? It loved you.
