If it's one thing I have my learned from living in Puerto Rico it's this. People go apeshit over something they have never seen before. What do I mean by this? Let's take a trip back to last year. Krispy Kreme was going to be making it's local debut here. Once it was announced, people went crazy just to get a donut. As if we had never had a donut in our lives. What ever happened to the Dunkin Donuts we have all over the place, or the incredibly awesome yellow boxes of donuts we buy on the street?
Did we suddenly get some kind of amnesia fed by the excitement of consumerism? Probably, but since it comes from "Disney" (anything outside the island), then it has something special and magical.
And last week, another epidemic struck with the opening of Victoria's Secret for the first time here. Now, this one just made my brain turn into mush. Underwear...people went crazy over it. Everywhere we go, it's the pink bags. It's as if people have never seen underwear all of a sudden. What the hell is wrong here? Perhaps Victoria will let us know what her secret is, I'm not sure. It's like the Britto craze all over again, only now they are combined.
If we get a Barnes and Noble here, will people react as if they have never seen a book and go read? Perhaps that's the one thing we need, because it looks like we are getting dumber with every new store coming from overseas. We definitely have seen donuts before, and we have certainly gone shopping for undergarments before as well.
Sometimes, I just don't know why we do this.
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