Gorillas And Vacuums...Not Such A Smart Moment.

In the town I live in there's a cleaning supplies shop and that shop used to have a gorilla in front of it to advertise vacuums. To this day I've always wondered "What does a gorilla have to do with vacuuming? It seems like sort of an odd gimmick."

Seriously, If anyone understands this please explain it to me.

Well about a year ago, me and my sister's boyfriend got onto the topic of that shop and it's mechanical vacuum gorilla. I said that it bothered me and it was a stupid way to advertise because gorillas have no way to vacuum nor are they related in any way.

He then told me that I was stupid and gorillas totally invented vacuuming. Vacuums came from what gorillas did to clean the caves they lived in. Now I'm not usually gullible so I found it hard to believe. I mean gorillas invented the vacuum?

He spent about 20 minutes getting into the details of it and I, stupidly, thought he was telling the truth. I then spent about an hour looking online to read about how gorillas invented vacuuming and got frustrated when I
found nothing. Nothing seemed to agree with what he said and I was convinced that my sister was dating an idiot.

I then walked up to him and called him stupid for thinking that. In a story made to make me look smart this would be the part where I teach him something new. However, this isn't a story to make seem smart, this is a story to talk about my intelligence...or lack there of.

See my sister's boyfriend has fun trying to get people to believe ridiculous things and I just so happened to be a victim of his most recent attempt. When I confronted him he looked amazed then laughed...and laughed...and laughed.

When he was done laughing at my expense, he pointed out that first of all gorillas have no electricity to power vacuums, second they don't live in caves, and third were they in caves they'd be vacuuming dirt to reveal more dirt.

To this day people still bring up the fact that I believed him. In my defense, it wasn't so much me believing him as it was me wanting to know if he was a totally idiot or if it was true. Two things were learned that day. The first, never look things up that you're pretty sure aren't true. The second, unless that gorilla was a vacuum, it has no place standing outside a vacuum store.