Marketing ...

Yesterday i saw a vagrant with a T-shirt on that was printed:
"Save Our Jobs"
And i thought to myself "Now that's marketing !!"

It was almost motivational ..... a vagrant making a statement about unemployment ..... how ironic ....... That's what we need more of in this country "Shock and Awe"

Trinidadians are too laid back ..... we don't take anything seriously until it is up in our faces.... I think we as Trinidadians should embark on a campaign - a serious campaign of making more people aware of the negative realities that exist in our country.

This serious campaign would consist of dressing vagrants up in brightly coloured t-shirts with slogans on them like "I didn't do well in school" and "I used crack cocaine" ......
What better way to convey a message to the youth of T&T - the messages that they seem to be so hard at hearing !?!

We could go to all the parks and squares that are bountifully occupied with these vagabonds and just hand them out ..... maybe even give them a bowl of soup. It won't be exploitation!! ........ they'll get a warm clean t-shirt..... and we'll get our message across. Who knows it might even become the height of hobo fashion.

But why stop there ..... we should take our impressionable young children on field trips too; carrying them to hobo havens: public squares, abandoned buildings and under bridges. This would show them the derelict conditions vagrants live in, their nasty hygiene and their open crack sores. I am sure that this would reduce the number of school drop-outs and improve grades.

We need to take the same aggressive marketing stance that we as a society use to sell candy and sneakers.

We'll call the program "Hobos for Humanity"
These people are already utterly useless members of society ...... they should at least contribute to saving future generations ....

If you can't be an example ... be a warning to others !!

(I tried to get a picture of the vagrant, i swear ......... i'll pass again today to see if i see him .... more than likely he'll have on the same t-shirt - its not like if vagrants have wardrobes)