Stupid Commercials

Stupid Commercials

We’ve been hearing a lot of them on the radio since the whole moving thing started.  Of course, anything from Friendly’s is stupid; I don’t know how their ad agency stays in business (and Teriyaki Chicken. . .topped with cheese. . .is just gross.)  However, even daughter #2 figured out how dumb the new one from Meineke was.  The scenario is a guy talking about his romantic wedding in a remote country church, and how after he gets lost, his car goes into a ditch because he didn’t get his brakes fixed at Meineke.  So while he’s waiting to get out of the ditch, his bride and best man, who’ve been in love behind his back, get married.  He concludes that the moral of the story is that he should have gotten his brakes fixed.  Carolyn was making a funny face at this, and had already figured out that in this case, the guy was clearly better off not having had his brakes fixed.  Duh.  Yeah, I should have fixed my brakes so I could have married her and then divorced her later when I found out she was cheating on me.