A few weeks ago Shaun asked me could we go to the store to buy Silly Bandz. My first comment was what the heck are Silly Bandz because this was the first time I was ever hearing about these things? Shaun told me they were rubber bands that you wore and when you weren’t wearing them they turned into things like animals, cars, shapes and a whole bunch of other stuff.
It was a Sunday afternoon and I told Shaun we could go buy some. I told him he needed to pay for them so he went to his room got some money from his piggy bank. Shaun told me his friends got theirs at the Dollar Store and 7-11 so off we went. 7-11 sounded weird to me so we headed to the Dollar Store but the lady told me they don’t sell them but try AC Moore which we did and found sports Silly Bandz because every other kind was sold out. The lady at AC Moore told me they are so popular they sell out within hours of getting them in. I am assuming since they had sports ones left no body liked those but Shaun wanted some so bad those are the ones he got. At first I was going to make Shaun pay for them thinking they would only be a few bucks and he could pick up the tab. Heck no those things were $5 for 24 bandz how crazy is that? A few days later while getting coffee at 7-11 what do I see at the checkout, Silly Bandz. Well, not Silly Bandz but a knockoff that looks just like the real thing so I picked up another pack for him.
Shaun loves his rubber bracelets things and the other day asked could he take his outside because kids in the neighborhood were trading. These things are extremely popular and I am not sure why but they are so popular they are being band from school because they distracting the kids. I was reading an article this morning that schools in New York, Texas, Florida and Massachusetts have told students not to wear them to school. It is crazy how the simplest little piece of rubber can gain so much popularity but this is just like anything else, a fad which in a few months to a year will end and I will be throwing them away in the trash wondering what happened to the Silly Bandz.
Are your kids into Silly Bandz?
