As is my wont, I was doing some laundry
over the weekend; specifically, I was washing jeans. And that got me
to thinking, which as we all know can be a very dangerous thing. How
many pair of jeans does the average American own? So after I stuck
the jeans in the machine, I pulled out my phone, went to Google, and
received my answer.
Seven, if you're curious.
As I mentioned, I'm below average in
that respect, as I had just thrown each pair of jeans I own—all
four of them—into the washing machine. But as I scrolled down a
little further, I took solace in another fact that had followed the
mention of seven. You see, even though the average American owns
seven pair of jeans, they only wear four of those pair.
And since I wear each of the four pair
that I own, for once, at least in that regard, I'm perfectly average!
That was one thing I learned by
Googling the number of jeans that the average American owns. The
other thing I learned? That tracking cookies are everywhere.
After checking out that fact on Google,
while I was waiting to put the jeans in the dryer, I checked out a
few more websites on my phone. And, wouldn't you know, each and
every site I visited had an ad on it just for me—an ad about buying
jeans. I mean, I wasn't surprised; after all, cookies are on every
single computer device we use, and advertisers use those cookies to
determine what we're interested in. But to see the ads for jeans
just a few minutes after I did a Google search that had (literally)
nothing to do with buying jeans.
Well...let's just say I had to chuckle. And had be glad that I hadn't just searched for something a little more, shall we say, adult. Because then I can just imagine what would've popped up as ads on my phone. I probably would've had to buy a new one.
8-)
So the next time you get set to throw
jeans into the wash, check and see if you're above or below average.
And be thankful that you won't have to look it up yourself, and then
be bombarded by ads for jeans each and every time you go online.
That's okay. You can thank me later.
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