Filed under: Gripes, Television, Ads We Hate, Op-ed
I thought that when I got older, illogical commercials wouldn't be as irritating to me as they were when I was younger. But if anything, I'm even more annoyed by them now than I was when I was 25 or 30.
The woman pulls up to the laundry drive-thru in her car. She looks in the rear-view mirror and sees a cute guy in the car behind her. So she gets her clothing, then hands the woman behind the window some money and says she wants to pay for the shirts for the guy behind her, and oh yeah, give him my number too.
But what if this guy isn't getting shirts? What if this guy is married? What if this guy is 400 lbs (and no, don't yell at me for saying this, the woman is obviously making a shallow judgment about the guy just from his head)? What if this guy is gay? And who the hell gives their phone number to some random guy in a car that she has never talked to, even for a second?
If I was the woman behind the window, I'd keep the money and try to get the guy myself. At least she's going to talk to him for a while. The tagline for the ad is "Bold Takes Initative." So does stupidity.
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