Wednesday, April 23, 2008

There's No Business Like Troll Business

I can remember two different decades when trolls, were the most popular things to own.

First in the 60’s…when you could only purchase them NUDE.

And then again in the late 80’s…when they came dressed in a theme.

I never quite understood if a troll was a man or a woman...or simply androgynous?

Back in the 60’s when I was just a kid, I saved up all my allowance money so I could buy one. It also came with a little plastic brush so you could style it’s hair. My favorite thing to do, was to braid the hair while it was wet, and then after it dried, I would take out the braid…which then made the troll look like it had been electrocuted.

Kids would even bring their trolls to school in their book bags and lunch boxes.

That is…if you went to PUBLIC school.

The CATHOLIC school children were absolutely forbidden to bring a troll on school grounds.

(trolls were considered the spawn of Satan)

And if you were EVER caught with a troll during catholic school hours, it was immediately confiscated and you would never see it again.

I often wondered where the nuns put them…?

(personally, I think they were all placed in a box…and then later sold for pagan babies)

Years afterward…trolls lost their luster, and pretty much disappeared.

Then in the 80’s, trolls began to walk the earth again. However this time…wearing fabulous little outfits. You could purchase them decked out in all sorts of themes, such as: Hillbillies, Batman, Punk Rockers, and Ballet Dancers.

It was at this time, I was working as a hairstylist in a salon. I had collected several trolls throughout the year, and suddenly got this brilliant idea of trying out new haircuts on them. A good friend of my was a nail technician in the salon where I worked, so after I would style the hair, I would turn the little girl trolls over to her, and she would then paint their finger and toenails with various colors. She would also put some lipstick, blush and eye shadow on them.

(isn’t this an interesting and SICK story?)

Anyway….I started displaying the coiffured trolls at my work station, so that my clients could see what we had created. And believe it or not…they went NUTS over them and started asking us if we could do the same thing for their trolls. And we did! We never charged them any fee for doing it, we just did it for the hell of it.

Eventually trolls lost their luster again…and vanished.

I often wondered what I ever did with all those trolls….?

(oh, that’s right…I put them in a box…and then later sold them for pagan babies)