Every year in downtown Dallas, toward the end of July,
the Mary Kay cosmetic company holds a nationwide convention. It fills up a convention center plus several hotels.
The conventioneers can best be described using estimated percentages, based upon a total of women wearing
convention badges or other Mary Kay identifying marks in public.
- With a male: 10%
- With a male who also wore a badge: 5% or less
- Wearing a dress: 95% or more
- Wearing a blazer: 50%
- Red blazer: 25%
- Aquamarine blazer: 25%
- Wearing at least one award badge: 50%
- At least two: 30%
- At least three: 20%
- Fairly attractive: 25%
- Speaks with a Southern accent: 30%
- Heavily made up: 95% or more
- Sleeps in hotel room with a cartoon of "Red Hot Rhinos Charging for Cadillacs" on the door: 10%
- Looks similar to the "Red Hot Rhino" in the cartoon: 30%
Anecdotal evidence may also be obtained in many fine Dallas eating and drinking establishments.
This indicates that Mary Kay conventioneers largely:
- Do sleep four or more to a room.
- Mostly do not go to bars.
- When they do go to bars, they prefer complicated frozen drinks.
- Do not go to restaurants.
- Do bring their own food, in coolers.
- When they do go to restaurants, they bring their own teabags.