Skittles, Your Marketing Department Needs a Raise

This is absolutely brilliant. No major brand has embraced the viral video quite like this, and if it's a trend I hope it explodes in popularity:

The Wrath of Kuma

I was eating at Kuma's corner with three friends, and I was bothered in a way I haven't been in some time. Enough to actually write in this thing about it, since I'm not conceded enough to complain to a friend about my own hangups (at least this one). I hadn't eaten, I was a bit sloshed, and I was served last. A drink I ordered had taken an excessive amount of time, and I bitchily asked our waitress where my drink was. She said she was waiting on the bartender, bitched her out, then gave me my drink.

But when she gave me my drink, it came with a look and a gesture that I've never experienced and hope to never again. It was her dropping the beer onto the table, sliding it towards me, and giving me the most chilling look I've not seen in quite a long time. It was her discarding me as a person, saying nothing but "you have wronged me and I no longer consider you in any way." It was incredibly sincere, I've not seen such an honest expression of emotion in months and it chilled me to the bone. Simply put, I've never been discarded before. Even by an acquaintance, no one has rejected me so completely.

For the rest of the night it was the characteristic cold shoulder 'I am a black hole of scorn' type of service from her. When she eventually looked at me I called her over and apologized for being a bitch to her, but damage done. I'm a big fat pansy for feeling this terrible over a look, but most of the time people are a little two faced... trying to wear a mask, trying to hide one emotion with another, trying to give you what you want to hear and see, but not her. It was pure contempt, unfiltered and unmuddled.

Fascinating.