One time Carl was on a Wheaties box.
I think this is hilarious. Look at that cereal box. Breakfast of champions, that’s what I’m talkin’ about.
Good story, right?
It gets better.
He didn’t KNOW he was on a Wheaties box. You’d think they need permission for this type of thing, but nope. If you’re handsome enough, and look like a champion, you just might wind up on a Wheaties box one day too. If it doesn’t happen, chalk it up to mediocre looks and lack of champion potential. Sorry, truth hurts. You can’t all be handsome champions like my hubby.
Maybe if you eat more Wheaties? It is, after all, the breakfast of champions.
Still wondering how all this came about? It’s a story with many twists and turns, but I will try to explain.
My aunt in Ontario, who works at a college, walked into a room where these boxes were in production and said, “Hey, I know that guy! What is he doing on that Wheaties box?”
To appease her they gave her one to take home. (They may have been doing it as part of an upcoming volleyball tournament his team was supposed to be attending, not as official General Mills employees.)
She brought it to my parents’ house (in Ontario) at Christmas to show them. She tucked it in a gift basket that somehow ended up forgotten in the bathroom. They throw rager parties apparently, those parents of mine, where random baskets of things wind up lost in the bathroom.
The next time my mom cleaned the bathroom (could’ve been the next day, could’ve been weeks, no telling :)), she found a mysterious Wheaties box with her son-in-law’s (very handsome) face on it.
You can imagine the confusion that ensued.
She called me, in B.C.
I had no idea what Carl’s face was doing on a Wheaties box in Ontario. Neither did Carl. She took a picture of the box. I laughed hard.
She had to trace back what might have happened the night of that ca-razy Christmas party, and call her brothers and sisters to find out what shenanigans had caused this cereal box to turn up in her bathroom. Turns out my aunt brought it, as mentioned, and forgot to show my mom, and somehow the box ended up in the bathroom.
Mystery solved. I think?
I had no idea Carl was so famous!
wow! hilarious:) i don’t think I could eat those Wheaties…I’d be scared to open the box;)
LOL, oh Irene I miss you :)