“So when I went to visit my mother in Florida
one year, right around Halloween, I saw a commercial
for a new product, a “tickle-me-elmo” doll,
and when you touched his belly he giggled.
And I had never seen anything like this before,
so I said at the end of this new commercial
that I thought this was a cute thing. So
after I went home to Chicago in the beginning
of November, mom apparently went right to the store
and found a “tickle-me-elmo” doll, and bought it
on the spot. “There, one Christmas present done,”
she was probably thinking. So anyway, the months passed
and I started hearing of this craze from mommy
shoppers for the “tickle-me-elmo” doll after
Thanksgiving, apparently this was a huge thing now,
like the Cabbage Patch Doll or something, and stores
were sold out of this little doll that giggled
when you squished his belly. It seemed funny to me,
but when Christmas rolled around I got a gift
from my mother, it was this “tickle-me-elmo” doll
that everyone else was so frantically looking for.”
