Christmas must be coming. How else to explain commercials that, like candy canes and Wawa egg nog, are only seen at this time of year? Friends, I'm talking about The Clapper and Chia Pets. Does anybody give (or, worse yet, receive) these for Christmas? Sometimes, their TV commercials run back to back, leaving you gasping for air.
Of course, dubious gifts are nothing new and I came across this old ad to prove that gift giving desperation knows no generation.
WOW! Thanks honey! Hey - move your nose a little closer to me so that I can try out some man magic on it right now!
I don't look forward to Fridays the way I did when I went to work every day; in fact, I actually get more excited about Mondays. It was not always so. When I was a kid, Sunday nights meant two things: [1] the end of the weekend and, worse, [2] going back to school. For a long time afterward, this dread would sometimes recur, substituting "work" for "school" even though, more often than not, things turned out OK. Friday meant [1] the end of the work week and, better, [2] starting the weekend. Lately, Friday closes out another week of little accomplishment while Monday teases the possibility of something good happening. Wasn't it Scarlet O'Hara who so sagely observed that, "Tomorrow is another day" (or was it Annie)?
Before I go have my same breakfast at my same place and sit in the same booth, I get to watch a little of the Today show and I have come to feel great sympathy for weatherman Al Roker. The weather usually comes in the middle of the proceedings, after the bailout news but somewhere before Obama's latest cabinet appointment. Often, however, it comes right after some terrible story that just sucks the life out of you. They'll come back to Meredith Vieira who will say something like, "Savannah Guthrie reporting on the horrific discovery of heads of decapitated puppies and kittens impaled on the fence of an elementary school in Sticky Syrup, Tennessee. [PAUSE] And now here's Al with a look at the weather!" Al is unfortunately standing outside in front of about a thousand cheering people, one of whom is a woman dressed as an elf, holding up a sign that says, "Santa, I'm always good!" Maybe they should slip in a Clapper commercial before they go to Al; even bad weather would sound good after that.
Have a wonderful weekend all!
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