What am I missing?

/ hsoi

There are a couple businesses here in Austin with slogans that are… confusing.

A bedding/mattress place: “if you’re not sleeping with us, you’re sleeping alone.”

Um… my wife would beg to differ.

A tire place: “If it’s in stock, we’ve got it.”

Um… duh?

What am I missing here? 🙂

12 thoughts on “What am I missing?”

    • That’s my point.

      They just seem like silly slogans… if it’s in stock we’ve got it.. .well… duh. Is that the best slogan you could come up with?

  2. Try not to think about it too hard?

    We’re talking about a city whose resident designated motto is, “Keep Austin Weird”…Is it supposed to make sense?

    -Rob

  3. I can’t remember where I saw it but my favorite slogan is:

    “Our service makes us first, our quality makes us last.”

    I wonder how many customers have been put off by missing the double meaning of last.

    Peter

  4. Actually it was supposed to be “Keep Austin Wired” and was an ad campaign for Starbucks. But, being Austin, they fucked it up.

    I can say that as an Austin Native and Hater of all things Austin now. That is not the place I grew up in. I moved away for a few years late 80’s to early 90’s and when I came back someone had moved my Austin and substituted a very different one.

    As for “if it’s in stock…” You know sometimes the obvious just has to be said.

    • Yeah, Austin isn’t the city it once was. While I still like it for the most part, I’m growing tired of it. Eventually we’ll move away to somewhere nice and quiet.

    • Yours truly is an Austin native as well and I’m doing my damnedest to get out of this place and out onto my own 23-acre slice of freedom out in Caldwell county. I still have a soft spot in my heart for certain aspects of this town and likely always will, but the Austin I knew and loved is pretty much gone. The whole place is becoming rapidly Californicated: Too many people, too many laws, too many taxes, and too many folks who wont just mind their own business. Its been real nice, but imnsho, its time to beat a hasty retreat and I’m in the process of doing just that.

  5. AYUP,
    I can remember riding my bike from the folks place out towards Manachaca (yes I know how it is spelled and pronounced) to Barton Springs to go swimming. No way I would let a kid make that trek now. Besides the highways there are too many absolute nuts along the way.

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