So I was out today with the wife going to the Home Depot, etc.  Near the strip mall type
setup there was a guy in a cup costume at the side of this busy road.   Apparently
the guy/girl was working for a place called Ritas, it is a ice cream/Italian ice place.
I fuckin hate when some place has the brillant idea, "Hey lets put Joe in a goofy,
anthropomorphized foam representation of one of our products, and have him wave at
people over on the road.  This will increase our sales and make me a hero."
For one thing, who the hell, sees the waving cup man and goes "Damn it, I NEED to 
buy one of those things because that bizarre character is beckoning me".
You would have to be crazy.  Secondly, talk about demoralizing someone, damn.
If I was a minimum wage worker and someone told me to get in the costume, I would say:
"Fuck you." and walk out at the very least.  Maybe I would stab the manager and take the 
cash from the register, then I would put the now wounded manager in the costume and 
crucify him out front.  But that is just me.  
I will be damned if I ever buy anything from an establishment that promotes itself
via stuffing some poor kid in a stifling smelly costume, and directing him to wave at people
while inhaling car exhaust all day.
That all being said, when I see something like this, I almost always yell and wave back.
I have no idea why, cant stop myself, its sick.