198 of 219 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Completely Unexpected, October 8, 2009
This review is from: Relaxman Relaxation Capsule
As I was surfing the web in my three wolf moon shirt and zebra pants, i realized I was stressed. Amazon is the mac to my cheese, so I took a detour to find what wonderful relaxation item would be in my future. Little did I know it was the beginning of the rest of my life. I passed the stress balls and back massagers, no, i was searching for something to really cure my American middleclass anxiety. And then I found it. The Relaxman Relaxation Capsule. It was the answer to everything. My life would be perfect if this item were only in it. The only thing standing in the way was my debt on the red mustang I bought after college. But there was no going back. I turned to my lifesize replica of Darth Vador's suit, and he assured me that my future was set. My credit card emerged from my unique, flannel wallet and I struggled to read the three most precious numbers in my life, being smeared away by this trusty card's constant use. Finally, I clicked buy.
About a week later I received the letter. I was being audited. I was struck by the irony of my Relaxman Relaxation Capsule's planned arrival in two weeks. Two weeks too late. As luck would have it, I had missed many payments, and my debt was not looking its best. With the fines and forced payment notices I was receiving, I just knew my telemarketing career would not fix this unavoidable mess. And then I realized it. I could rent out my new purchase, the Relaxman Relaxation Capsule, and make the money back in no time. I resolved not to use it until I was out of this mess.
I put out ads in the newspaper, magazines, on telephone poles, in front of urinals, u name it. And can you imagine the response I received! There were so many people, I had to schedule them one month in advance! Then came the first client. He said he was upset over the death of his girlfriend after she had cheated on him. He claimed he felt bad about what happened to her, and needed to clear his head. So, of course I let him in. Who would be so cruel as to let an innocent soul be without a Relaxman Relaxation Capsule?
He paid me, got in, and I closed the contraption. There were a few muffled grunts that I took to be of him getting comfortable, and the next hour was just me and Guild Wars, the way its supposed to be. When the timer rang, I walked over to tell my client his time was up, my next "costomer" would be arriving shortly. I opened the hatch, and was suprised at his appearance. His skin had a grayish hew, and was wrinkled as of leather, which reminded me that I wanted a leather jacket before it got cold. I supposed I had simply overlooked this strange appearance before, and I shook him to get him to wake. He opened his eyes, the whites being much more yellow than I'd remembered, and he stood and walked out the front door.
This repeated itself with every client, I supposed it was the light after a while, but I found their unwillingness to talk after the experience rude. Over the next three months, I must have served 500 people. And with my constant inflation of prices, my debt was being paid slowly but surely. I was feeling so proud that I decided I would use my Relaxman Relaxation Capsule for the first time since I'd bought it, but then I saw her. One of the women who had rented my amazon purchasebut the day before, walking towards me on the sidewalk. She had a blank expression, and the leather skin and yellow eyes seemed more prominent now than when she had left. I was disturbed, but said hello as passing to be polite. Not a blink in response.
That night I decided to turn on the television. It had been months since i left my trusty computer for anything, but i wanted to watch Lord of the Rings on my barely used, 48 inch, flatscreen TV. As I pressed power, a shocking story poured from my speakers:
"And the horror continues. These mindless drones of humans will stop at nothing but a head wound to consume us. Be wary, they are everywhere. There is an estimated 600 walking the streets, having caused more than 3,000 deaths, lets hope that whatever is causing this stops, and that the epidemic stays contained to our city."
I was baffled. I guess i don't get out as much as I ought to. From the sound of it, there were zombies roaming the streets. It was only an hour later when I realized it: I was making the zombies! In a state of panic, I thought of how close I'd been to using my Relaxman Relaxation Capsule, thank Star Wars I had gotten distracted by LOTR. I ran over to inspect the machine to inspect it. nothing unusual. Just some yellow goop smeared on the top that I hadn't noticed before. I decided that enough was enough. I pushed the Relaxman Relaxation Capsule to the curb for any idio to claim. Suprisingly, it was taken within a few hours. I guess there are many more zombies appearing each day, destroying the city, but I stay inside, so it doesn't affect me much. A least I gave away the Capsule, which was mighty selfless of me, considering I'd never used it and paid so much for it. Anyway, alls well that ends well, and now I have a good story to tell, so it was worth the money.
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230 of 257 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not suitable for use in the southern hemisphere, October 19, 2006
This review is from: Relaxman Relaxation Capsule
The Product Description fails to mention a very important issue. When used below the equator, the Relaxman's negative-ion atmosphere actually becomes a positive-ion atmosphere. Consequently, far from relaxing you, it will only make you angrier and angrier. If a user doesn't recognize this in time, obviously the results could be tragic.
It's not clear if the Biotonus Clinic - which, being world famous, obviously needs no introduction - simply wasn't planning on marketing this product in, say, sub-Saharan Africa. But as Madonna's recent humanitarian visit illustrates, there are desperately impoverished countries like Malawi that may be equally desperate in their search for relaxation. If that search leads them to the Relaxman Relaxation Capsule... well, I'd rather not think about it.
On a side note: since it costs only a Lincoln short of 40 large, I assume the Relaxman will be included in the ban of luxury-good imports to North Korea. I hope that the deciding bodies at the United Nations will consider making an exception in this one case. That Kim Jong-Il seems a little wound up. Who knows? The Relaxman's brand of environmental therapy might end up easing tensions throughout the whole Korean peninsula.
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