Thursday, June 23, 2005

Oxi Lover Sheepishly Admits Has Been Misspelling Name of Favorite Product for Years

I went to the store today to load up on cat food and Oxy Clean. When I went to the appropriate aisle in the store, I noticed that Clorox had created a rip-off of the product. Next to the Clorox Oxy Rip-off was some product called "OXI Clean." Naturally, I was furious. How dare they profit off of Oxy's name and goodwill? I began to imagine the lawsuit, and cursed fate for not granting me a law degree just yet, otherwise I would have contacted Oxy Clean and suggested that we move forward with our multi-million dollar suit immediately. I was even more disgusted to discover that MY product, OXY clean, was not there. I was going to just leave the store, but I decided to pick up some of the rip-off OXI Clean to submit as evidence in my case.

I got home and immediately went down to the recycling to pick up the bucket of Oxy that I had just used up. I was mortified to discover that it was spelled OXI Clean all along! They had just redesigned their label so I didn't recognize it. The shame! I'm so pathetic!

1 Comments:

At 7:52 PM, Blogger Lucie4 said...

I'm not a law student, not even remotely, I'm a 56-year-old woman who is caught up in the ultra-bourgeois whirpool of remodeling her house. Anyway, because my initial contractor is a moron and built us a laundry room the size of a frigging phone booth, I had to buy all new washing machine & dryer, because my perfectly good old ones wouldn't fit unless I was willing to hang them from the ceiling or hire an underweight 5-year-old to do my laundry for me. So I had to buy one of those small and extremely expensive Miele washing machines, which are supposed to be the cat's pajamas, but they're finicky & don't allow chlorine bleach, so i'm on this quest to find the best non-bleach additive. which is how i ended up on your blog. I googled "oxy or clorox" and my first hit was your blog with your quite-charming little essay. I totally identified with your predicament/outrage/humiliation. (Nice writing, whoever you are!)

 

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