I spotted a bus bench ad for "Paseo" brand toilet paper yesterday. On the 91355 side of Lyons no less! My mind nearly blue-screened at the irony and strangeness:
To me, paseos are to Valencia as funny hats are to the Pope. You almost can't visualize a Valencia without its paseo system, can you? If you grew up here, the paseos were like a highway for you and your friends, a safe way to travel to parks, shops, and your friend's house. Have you ever biked or walked down a tree-lined paseo deep in Valencia late at night? It's almost otherwordly. You sometimes even come across wandering minstrels strumming on an instrument, like a scene out of the Middle Ages.
Happy people walking on paseos was the imagery on the NLF brochure that sold my parents on this burg for crying out loud. And then they moved us to paseo-less & hilly Sunset Pointe, but that's another story (I'm not too bitter about that).
What now? Am I to associate "paseo" with my posterior? Did the world really need another brand of toilet paper?
You'd think they would have trademarked it
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To me, paseos are to Valencia as funny hats are to the Pope. You almost can't visualize a Valencia without its paseo system, can you? If you grew up here, the paseos were like a highway for you and your friends, a safe way to travel to parks, shops, and your friend's house. Have you ever biked or walked down a tree-lined paseo deep in Valencia late at night? It's almost otherwordly. You sometimes even come across wandering minstrels strumming on an instrument, like a scene out of the Middle Ages.
Happy people walking on paseos was the imagery on the NLF brochure that sold my parents on this burg for crying out loud. And then they moved us to paseo-less & hilly Sunset Pointe, but that's another story (I'm not too bitter about that).
What now? Am I to associate "paseo" with my posterior? Did the world really need another brand of toilet paper?