Commercials

I don't have TV.
No Cable, No Satellite, No DirectTV, Nothing.

So the extent of my exposure to commercials and ads are through the internet and while listening to the radio as I zoom around town doing the actual speed limit because it pisses people off.

All too often I find myself shaking my head and talking back to the people on the radio even though I know it to be a pointless exercise because they never seem to listen to what I have to say.

The main ones that get me going are the ones that swear up and down they will help fix your credit, pay off your bills and consolidate your loans.

The one I heard on the way home from work tonight that got me going was one where people were claiming that they had been ripped off by home forclosure scammers.

"I paid the fee and never heard from them again, I lost my home."
"I lost thousands of dollars and my home"
"They said they would help, I paid their fee and still lost everything."

My question concerning this is ... If you had the money to pay their fee's, why weren't you paying your bills to begin with?

Another one that gets me going is the whole turn off your lights, kids care about wasting energy thing.

The ad will start with a couple kids talking and one forgetting to turn off a light and the other one giving them crap about it. It always ends with, if your kids care about wasting energy, shouldn't you?

Now I haven't met every child out there but I have 4 step kids ranging in age from 9 to 15. Not a one of them has ever met a light switch they knew how to turn off.

No matter how much I bitch about it.

I can wake up in the middle of the afternoon on a sunny day and sure as sin, they will have half the lights in the house on. If I had to make a wager about it, I would bet that kids these days are more worried about their facebook posts, cell phones, and video games then they are about turning off a light or whether their friend turns off the lights in their house.