Vinegar Martinis and the Condom Eater!

Vinegar Martinis Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:28 pm edit

Eons ago I worked for the company that manufactured Gold Circle Coin condoms (anyone who’s seen Pretty Woman saw our one and only product placement ad when Julia Roberts holds one up while negotiating with Richard Gere). The packaging looked very similar to a gold coin – especially like a gold coin chocolate candy. Keep this in mind it comes back into play.

So the other side of this company manufactured medical gloves and we went to a bunch of trade shows. We used to bring the Gold Coin Condoms along and kept them out in a bowl in front of our booth. People constantly thought it was candy and it was a great ice breaker when we’d say “no, those are condoms’. ha ha very cute -but people always stayed and talked to us and it was a great gimick to get people interested in the gloves.

One show, this guy was going from booth to booth just collecting any free samples or food or both. Hewas grabbing stuff left and right and shoving anything edible in his mouth as he wandered from booth to booth. He grabbed a few of the coins and we just sat back and watched.

To this day I have no idea how he did this or how he didn’t notice right away, but he pinched the coin and put the condom up to his mouth to take a bite of what he thought was chocolate. He noticed that it wasn’t chocolate immediately and reacted by pulling his hand holding the coin away from his mouth. Unfortunately for him, he must have had a gap in his teeth or something because the top part of the condom stuck in his teeth and when he was pulling his hand away, it was unrolling until here’s this guy in the middle of a trade show with a completely unrolled condom hanging from his mouth.

Everyone in our booth and those around us were in hysterics and the guy was a great sport about it. He just pulled it off his teeth and looked back at us and said ‘Thank God it wasn’t lubricated!’

We used to get some doozies of customer complaint letters too but that’s another story! LOL

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