I had more to say, but when I sit down at the computer, this is all that I can think of.

[cosmolinguist]

Darren gave me all (or at least most; a lot anyway) of the dark chocolates out of his bag of Hershey's miniatures last night. He even claimed, when we were in Wal-Mart, that he was going to buy them because I'd written about them.

This is at least the second time I've gotten some form of Hershey's chocolate from someone after, completely innocuously, mentioning in my LiveJournal how much I like that Hershey's product.

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[tragicallyjulia.livejournal.com]

Ooo... maybe you can be like those celebrities who mention a product on TV and then everyone sends them cases of it...
I wonder if this could work for me, too... ;->

[cosmolinguist]

Perhaps it's worth a try ... though I must admit that I am saying these things with no ulterior motives; sometimes I forget that people other than me actually read the things here in my journal (especially the people I know in real life). So I'm surprised if they even mention it to me, much less act upon things they've read.

But still, it's not a conscious thing, not like when girls go shopping with their boyfriends and say "Oh, look at that cute teddy bear!" and go over and hug it and say "it's so soft! I love it!" and coo and say "I really wish I had the money to buy this; it'd be really great but I don't have any." Then they bat their eyelashes at their hapless boyfriend and say "Maybe I'll be really lucky and someone else will get it for me ... " with a tone of hopelessness in their voice to indicate that they're sure it'll never happen and they'll be deprived of the joy-giving teddy bear forever ... so that way when the boyfriend buys it for them after all, they can squeal and kiss him and ... Yeah, that's not me.

Though it probably would be, if that had any chance at all of working on my boyfriend. :-) The one I have keeps me in line, though; it's good for me.

I think chocolate is good for me, too, though...