Amanda, sitting lazily on the couch, squints skeptically at a shoebox with the name "Gotta Flurt" on it. The shoebox sits unassumingly on the coffee table in front of her. She picks up the box and cautiously opens its lid, pulling out one dazzling, sparkling off-broadway converse shoe, further dappled in shiny white sequins. Her younger sister reclines on the couch, texting with concentrated, furrowed eyebrows.
Amanda: Julia, are these shoes for dance-team or...
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Oh okay...(in a singing, mimicking way) "Gotta Flurt!"
Julia: (mumbling under her breath) You're cool.
Amanda: What'd you say?
Julia: Nothing.
Amanda: Well, you're obviously NOT cool, because these shoes are entirely hideous. And they promote illiteracy.
Julia sinks deep into the couch cushion and even deeper into her adolescent cliche.
And SCENE.
okay, i didn't really say that last part, but i wish i did. But really, how does making the word "flirt" into "flurt" sell more shoes? Who markets this shit???? REALLY??!?!? Really.
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