At Last!
I was prowling through the nearby Aldi when I saw it… Staring right at me. My first thought was, ‘No way..’, but yes way, they named a candy bar after me! Well… almost. Check it out, a candy bar named Jive! What is it you ask? It’s a Twix knock-off but the biscuit inside is a little heavier, maybe even better. Too funny.
In an even completely unrelated, I was at the local Borders book store picking up The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I didn’t have my Borders card on me so they looked up my account by email which is dannyjive. The cashier behind the counter was an older African-American lady. She looked at me and said “Jive? What’s that mean to you?” I just shrugged and said it was a part of my business name. She went on to tell me that when she was a kid that word meant a lot to people. “I ain’t jivin’ you man”, she mimicked. “That word used to have a lot of weight. Nobody uses it anymore though.”
I thought it was great that the word actually meant something other than what I had intended. (Not that there was any ‘intent’ behind it when I made it). Kind of cool to see it have an effect on an older person. You could see that the word really brought her back to some old memories.
Now I’m gonna go run and get me a box of Jive!
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