1st Prize - Career-ending Publicity Stunts
A local weekly called The Stranger ran a loopy little feature called ‘Seattle’s Sexiest Citizens’ this week, featuring out-of-the-way professions like Bike Messenger, Barista, Street Kid, etc. This may be a tongue-in-cheek response to the upcoming (pun intended) Playboy feature on the Girls of Starbucks. Based on some of the names and circumstances, these may well be hoaxes, but one that caught my eye was the one for Bank Teller:
http://www.thestranger.com/2003-02-13/ex10.html You wonder if she just stepped out from behind the barred window, walked out into the hall with the photographer and ad-libbed the pose while other tellers, customers and loan officers looked on indulgently. I don’t know anything about the culture of Washington Mutual, but banks aren’t usually recognized for an expansive sense of humor (except for a brief, madcap hiatus during the S&L scandal). As for me, I hope they’re into bygones. WAMU, here I come! Goodbye Bank of America!
