Revenge Is Sweet

On Saturday, my neighborhood bath and body store had an amusing promotion...The Ex-Factor.

 

The flyer reads:

Revenge is sweet...and sometimes it pricks too.

Come to LUSH and take revenge on your ex. Disguise yourself, celebrate with like-minded people, write a message to your old flam on the back of this card and stick it on the Voodoo-Doll hanging in our window.

Free yourself from the old, and who knows who you might meet?

These little blue voodoo dolls actually are part of the Valentine's collection, and are one of LUSH's bath bombs (ylang-ylang scented). 

The description in store reads:

Ex-Factor Voodoo-bathball

Tear his arms off, hack his head off, or stab him in the heart. Then drown him, so that you also get something out of it.

On the website, the ad reads:

Well, not everyone can enjoy Valentine's Day. Especially with a broken heart, it's not easy to bear all the tokens of love around you. Put this little vanilla guy in your bath, when the heart balloons and teddy bears in the shops are just too much and watch as it slowly dissolves in water - representative of your heartache!

    

They hung the giant cardboard voodoo doll in the window, for everyone to put up their notes to exes. By the end of the day, they had collected German, Spanish, English, and the universal symbol for Lorena Bobbit.  

Some highlights:

I curse the day of your birth!!

I'm happy I got rid of you! :)

I want my innocence back!

Hello D, You have destroyed my family! Thankfully now I have someone better.

I hope you learn how to love. You won't be happy until you do!

Thanks for almost 4 year wrecked realtionship with you, P, it was hell! You are an idiot who never took advantage of the chances I gave you. Find someone else. Moron. You have had enough chances. I've found someone who I mean more to and who cares about my health and cancer. You were always the same. Moron, loser, idiot.

You stupid idiot. I hate you! The time I spent with you was a waste of time for me. I hope you have a hard life.

 
Interestingly enough, they don't all look like female handwriting! But if writing an anonymous note helps people feel better (and the store bring in customers), I say go for it!