Here’s a little bit of everything…- I love the Self-Checkout lines at the grocery and Target. They’re fantastic when you’re buying a few things, and you know how you’re paying for your transaction. Though this concept is pretty much useless when you find yourself behind someone who’s 1) using it for the first time and needs to listen to every automated prompt in-full to understand what to do, 2) bumbling around with a wallet/purse and isn’t quite sure which credit card/checking account/combination of these will be used to complete payment. Maybe there should be a class available to these people to help them understand the desired result of efficiency behind this.
- Have you heard the Webster Bank commercial on 92 Pro fm? Please understand, I don’t listen to Pro fm in my leisure time, but do at work. Regardless, the main concept of the commercial seems to be shoving as much information about the bank down your throat in 30 seconds. So you know the stereotypical car dealership legal announcement you’d hear at the end of a radio spot, sped-up to fit all of the “fine print verbiage” into as short of a time as possible? Yep, same concept. That seems awfully impersonal for a bank to take that route…definitely turned me off to even acknowledging them.
- “Boom boom POW”, needs to stop right NOW!
- Geez, go figure, classy Britney Spears with a song called “If U Seek Amy”. Nice, very nice to have a song where young kids do not understand the double entendre and say “F-U-C-K me”. Between that, and the typical Britney use of the word “baby” (14 times in this particular piece of trash), it’s amazing the music biz hasn’t completely crumbled before us.
- It's incredible how some colleges are telling graduates not to participate in hand-shaking during their ceremonies, due to fear of the swine flu. GIVE ME A BREAK...these are the same people who are HANDING DIPLOMAS to the graduates on stage, no gloves on either. And if that doesn't point out the foolishness, it only takes opening ONE DOOR that someone else touched to negate the hopes of non-transmission of the virus. Maybe we should reevaluate the intelligence of those making such ridiculous plans.
