{"id":1955,"date":"2013-01-10T15:43:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T23:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:11:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:11:56","slug":"karate-or-aikido-sign-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/karate-or-aikido-sign-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Karate or Aikido Sign Control?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/karate-or-aikido-sign-control\/&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=1&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fheathervale.com%2Fblog%2F2013%2F01%2F10%2Fkarate-or-aikido-sign-control%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><p>Sometime a year or so ago, I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/dancing-with-the-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warring mascots on opposite corners<\/a> of a small-town street, each trying to bring attention to the signs and banners of the establishments that hired them.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today in the Las Vegas valley (Henderson to be precise) I saw a &#8220;sign kid&#8221; whose exuberance put them all to shame.<\/p>\n<p>He was holding a plastic banner for some store (I think it might have been a hairdresser, but it was hard to tell) and trying to get passing cars to pay attention to it.<\/p>\n<p>However, the wind was whipping it around like crazy &#8212; in truth, I think this is the REAL &#8220;windy city&#8221; at times. That desert breeze can turn wild when it gets caught in the midst of the mountain perimeter.<\/p>\n<p>So to fight the wind, the kid was spastically &#8212; yet enthusiastically &#8212; flinging the banner from side to side, and then throwing it forward with all his might&#8230; over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>Impossible to read? Yes!<\/p>\n<p>Hilarious to watch? Absolutely&#8230; he gave me my first literal LOL of the day!<\/p>\n<p>He looked like the star of a really bad martial arts B-movie&#8230; the kind where they dub the voices and the sound doesn&#8217;t match the lips.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta give the kid points for trying.<\/p>\n<p>He sure seems to embrace the concept of &#8220;guerrilla marketing&#8221;, to the point where he was literally in a battle!<\/p>\n<p>However, I feel like there might have been a better way to work <em>with<\/em> Mother Nature rather than trying to fight her.<\/p>\n<p>While he was acting out a karate flick, using force against force, he could have been employing the principles of Aikido&#8230; going with the flow and letting the opposing force make things easier.<\/p>\n<p>As hard as that can be to conceive sometimes, and even harder to act on, I personally think it will always get us farther ahead in life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep Unwrapping the Mysteries of Life!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Heather Vale Goss\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/images\/sigHVG_2.1_blue.gif\" width=\"205\" height=\"35\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime a year or so ago, I wrote about warring mascots on opposite corners of a small-town street, each trying to bring attention to the signs and banners of the establishments that hired them. 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