Bentley posted this story in his/her journal this morning, but I thought it worth sharing with the larger audience. Apparently, the Spring Hill (TN) library sponsors a fund-raising flea market each year. This year, things heated up when someone offered products from “Passions & Pleasures,” a Tupperware-like business that offers home selling parties of adult, uh, novelties, such as vibrating rubber ducky sponges. Yesterday, the people who paid for and staffed the booth were looking at being fined for violating the city’s ordinance governing sex-oriented businesses.
The city, however, decided to not pursue the case. Owner Katherine Williams had this to say in today’s Tennessean
”Nothing we do is nasty, unless you have a nasty mind,” she said, turning a knob on the yellow ducky’s tail to make the sponge vibrate. ”My 3-year-old son loves to play with this duck in the bath. He puts it on his neck and on his head; there’s nothing inappropriate about it.”
Great Story
Sounds like more Friends groups should invite this vendor. I particularly liked the part about the vendor and the mayor (both with surnames Williams) “not being related” and the fact that the sellers of the bath toys were now “in hot water.” How appropriate.
okay
So you work for a business called ‘Passions & Pleasures’ and you sell rubber duckies that just happens to vibrate, but because I add 2 + 2 and get 4 *I* have a dirty mind?! Woman, get a grip.
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When my mind gets dirty, it never, EVER involves a duck.
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Nor does mine, though it often involves a woman getting a grip, apparently so does Greg’s!
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can’t take you people anywhere…
is this just me or…
does anyone else think that when her son grows up, he might not be too pleased at being told that he played with what many people deem as a sexual toy when he was very young? And having his mom tell the newspapers about it?