Sunday, June 22, 2014

No Question About It

Usually, a matchcover doesn't question you, it tells you: the place, the address, the phone number.  It wants you to know exactly where you picked it up from.

Then there are the matchcovers that brazenly ask just where you got it- then make you look inside for the answer- each time you need a match.

Needless to say, there's a novelty to it though sometimes it's worded a little differently.  "Now Where Did I Get This?" is the G-rated version, and readers may recall the KC Matchgirl featured the PG- rated version for her blog premiere titled "Where The Hell Did I Get This?" (July 2013). The answer inside is also G-rated:  from Clay Widener of Moore Reality Co. in Denver, CO, who has probably gone to that real estate listing in the sky by now.


The flipside of this stylish punctuation mark asks "Why Not?" then just gets silly by stating "We Never Close, Open 24 days a week, 7 hours a day"  across the saddle.  "Why Not" what?  When are they open?  When do they close?

Well, let's flip it open and find out!  "It's Top's for HOT APPLE PIE", "Denver's Quality Drive-In Restaurants", 2 addresses listed...  So "Why Not?" eat at Top's?  or "Why Not?" eat HOT APPLE PIE?

The KC Matchgirl just doesn't know-

Are they open 24/7 or 7/24?  Are customers expected to eat HOT APPLE PIE in their cars?  Because the KC Matchgirl remembers the drive-ins of the 1960's (where you ordered your food then ate it in the car) and her parents constant harping about spilling ketchup, soda, or ice cream inside the car, much less HOT APPLE PIE!

They would be sure to tell you "Why Not?"