We recently went to a local mall and saw some strange behavior. People were walking around with a banana held up to their ear as though talking on the phone with it. At first Ryan and I just looked at the person and the banana trying to determine if it really was a banana. And it was! Then we looked at each other with expressions that said 'what is going on?'. After sighting the first person with their banana phone we quickly saw another person talking on their fruit, then another and another. It was clear that these people were all unrelated to each other. The individuals were too diverse from one another so it was no way just a group of friends spread out throughout the mall just having fun.
But what the heck was going on??!
These people were pretty good at whatever it was that they were doing. I would say that 95% of those I saw with these funky (fake) phones were really talking and achieving the appearance of having a conversation on a phone. A few, however, will miss out on the Oscar. As I walked past one guy on his fruit phone, I heard him say 'Can you hear me, you're breaking up!'. But he wasn't believable as he was smiling as he said it. Clever though, I'll give him that.
After a while I gave up trying to figure it out and started watching people who were watching the banana talkers. That was much more enjoyable. I love to watch people watching people!
In conclusion, is has been decided that the whole thing was a marketing stunt, to be sure, but not an effective once since we are still at a loss as to what it was actually for. It did, however, have entertainment value.
Saturday, March 1
People Watching -or- Just Plain Weirdness
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You'll probably be featured on one of the late night shows where people do dumb things and they watch the crowds react.
Amazing what happens when you goggle "Banana Phone"!
Jenn....yes, it is interesting to see what Google has! It didn't answer my initial question though, but it did have some interesting pictures! :)
In college we used to do social experiments where we'd have some people doing something like that to get a reaction, then other people were secretly watching the crowd's reactions and taking notes. Once we took candles, a table cloth, fine china and silverware to McDonald's, ordered a supervalue meal, then ate it on the fine dinner ware. We also wore dresses and our hair up all fancy. Another time I walked around the mall telling people, "It's under your shoe," then walking away, while my then boyfriend, now husband, tallied their responses from afar. Lots of fun!
HOw weird! Did you feel a little left out that you didn't have a banana phone of your own? Maybe it was a cell phone protest of some kind...
Oh how funny. I can just imagine the facial expressions going on.
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