At the pool, no one wants to be reminded of the time of the month that women worldwide bitterly refer to as “Shark Week.” So it caught Amanda’s attention when she noticed this light-colored pool toy with gentle curves on the outside. It would be nice to float on in the pool while lounging, waiting for your sunscreen to dry so you don’t catch fire. Oh, and it looks like a giant feminine hygiene product.
Amanda spotted this item in a Sam’s Club in upstate New York, where sample pool products dangle above customers’ heads. “We were perusing the aisles, only to look up in the seasonal section and see a pool float that looks more like a huge version of a personal care item,” she wrote. “For a female giant, perhaps.”
UPDATE: Thanks to alert reader El_Cheapocabra who found this item on the Sam’s Club site (which didn’t occur to me while writing this post for some reason.) Doesn’t the model look thrilled?
It’s a male model, of course, because all of the female models were laughing too hard to be photographed when they saw the product.
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All panty liners should include a headrest.
For all the tiny men living in her crotch?
It would just be nice to have a little support down there for my head.
Ew.
For the little man in the boat.
Thanks, Laura.
I will now have that image seared into my consciousness the rest of the day…
I’m just glad the blue accents are not red.
No I don’t think I have Laura.
Your loss.
Do they have a deluxe model with wings? I’ll take that.
Wear a red swimsuit for maximum effect.
Damnit, I spilled my Hawaiin punch all over it.
http://www.samsclub.com/sams/shop/product.jsp?productId=prod5150369
It’s soft, durable, and antimicrobial! Bonus points for the awkward “Can I go now?” look on the male model’s face.
As Jules and Coffee said, gotta wear a red swimsuit and use some gauze tape to make wings. Then you’re all set for the family picnic. Your cousin’s coming-out announcement will go “swimmingly” after that.
It looks like a publicity picture from ‘Risky Business’.
If this is ultra absorbant that would really be a problem.
Wouldn’t it be funny if the blue swirly accents were actually red
I have to admit, this made my day.
I have a theory. The commercials are always pouring blue liquid on these things. I think the fact that they colored this blue immediately brought ‘maxi pad’ to mind. If it was solid black or green, I wonder if it would have gone unnoticed.
That totally made me LOL. Thanks for the laugh.
I have a friend who deals with factories in China who make their specialty products and has to get on the phone all the time with them to work out the design issues. I think the conversation on this one went something like this:
China: I think I understand how you want this designed, but I really need to see some kind of example or model to go by.
Designer in US: Hmm, wait a minute. I have something right here we can send you to go by. It’s just the general shape we’re looking for, and not the details of this.
And that’s when a sudden burst of static on the line blocked out most of the last sentence. One containerload shipment later….
Did they say inches or feet?
I think it was feet.
Really? ok.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8837736/Monster-slipper-revealed-as-elaborate-PR-stunt.html
Pour a can or two of V8 juice on it before you toss it in the pool and it’ll be the Attack of the 50 Foot Woman version of the Baby Ruth bar in Caddyshack.
Or how about a “baby ruth” version for the 50 ft woman? Ewwwwwwwww
The male model is gay and is totally in on the joke.
It’s probably as close to a vagina as he’s been since he was born
It looks like Tom Cruise back in ‘Risky Business”,
Will it expand ten times its size to hold 40 people in case your ship goes down?