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Frenzied tweens cause area-wide shortage of rubber bands
By adamg on Sun, 05/16/2010 - 5:20pm
The scene on Saturday at the Walgreens on Centre Street, West Roxbury, where they couldn't keep up with the demand for shaped rubber bands.
As fads go, this is probably the most harmless ever: Rubber bands molded in various shapes and colors (multi-colored eye-glass frames, anyone?) are all the rage among the pre-teen set. The kidlet reports one girl in her class has like $30 worth of the shaped rubber around her wrist. Although the whimsical rubber bands have been around for a couple years now, they only blossomed into a full-fledged craze, at least in Roslindale and West Roxbury, about three months ago.
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Silly Bands
Arlington too!
My daughter (6, and in
My daughter (6, and in kindergarten) was practically in tears about 3 weeks ago when I wouldn't buy her a package of these in Border's book store. I didn't even know what they were or had heard about them. Since then I have seen them everywhere, and I mean everywhere! Thankfully, for her, she has since been given a bunch of them as gifts from her friends at school..... and thankfully, for me, they must have been causing quite a distraction in the class because her teachers has banned them from the classroom :)
Wow. Believe it or not, we were
into something similar when I was in the fourth grade- these goofy black rubber bands people wore on their arms and wrists and such. An easier fad to keep up with than polos, Champion sweatshirts, and "gazelle" sneakers.
Buy them online!
http://www.google.com/products?addr=02119&q=bandz
I am so unaware
I have two boys and there are lots of fads that skip my household.
Underwear drawer
Also under the bed.
Trust me, my parents probably had no idea I was in deep with the pencil fighting crews. I craved the shocking vibrations up my fingers with ever strike. At my worst, I was probably going through 10, 11, maybe even 12 pencils a week.
The first rule of our pencil fighting club was "There is no pencil fighting club". That's right, we coined that phrase. Wanna pencil fight about it!?
Also, Garbage Pail Kids, and pogs...and Garbage Pail Kids pogs.
Hey, Bart! Remember ALF? He's
ALF POGs! Remember ALF? He's back. In POG form!
I wonder how many of those rubber bands Milhouse has
..water rising.....flood pants functioning properly! (or something like that)
For the sake of completeness,
For the sake of completeness, the line was "Hey, they're working! My feet are soaked, but my cuffs are bone dry! Everything's comin' up Milhouse!"
Thanks
I knew I could count on you.
No instruments included
"We Sell Animal Bands"
Walgreens in Union Square, Allston.