One day, as Maude was liberally applying lotion to her face, her 6 year old grandson was watching.
"What is that stuff, Grandma?" the little boy asked.
"It's anti-aging cream. It's supposed to keep me from getting wrinkles."
Upon hearing this, the boy's face took on an expression of pity and incredulity and he declared emphatically, "Grandma! It's NOT working!"
Poor Maude.
I don't believe in anti-wrinkle cream.
However...
...I use it everyday.
Isn't that lame? I'm one of the sheeple fueling the bonfire of superfluous marketing with my hard earned dollars.
Every time I find that there are only a couple of squirts left in my little tube of Oil of Ol' Lady, I ask myself, "Am I really going to spend another $18 on youthful wishes? Why don't I just flush the money and wish upon a star? It'll be just as effective. "
Well, until now, I have just gone out and purchased a new tube of fake-fountain-of-youth (aka "chump cream"), but this time, I decided to do a little experiment before I spend any money.
For the past couple of weeks, I've been applying the remnant of my ointment to the area around only my right eye. Around my left eye, I've just been slathering on some regular old face cream. You know, the cheap stuff.
Here you see the results:
Yeah, I know.
Dumb.
Sorry.
But seriously, what if I stop using anti-aging "serum" (they try to make it sound all scientific) and in a few years I look like this:
I suppose I could invest in a really good iron.
4 comments:
My mom used to use Pond's cold cream on her face every night. Since she is 89 years young now, I guess it did work for longevity purposes! Keep up the face plaster, Mom!!!
such funny pics.... thanks for the laugh Aimee :-)
I think you look great and besides wrinkles mean wisdom right? uhhh yaaa! :)
it works.
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