Really Annoying TV Commercials

Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> AAA here in SoCal is running a series of TV spots which are really
> starting to annoy me. One shows the president(?) of AAA driving slowly
> and being continuously passed by another driver. Of course, they never
> show how President Sloth manages to get back in front of the
> "impatient" driver time after time after time. The voice-over
> recommends that everyone always obey the speed limit, because speeding
> is dangerous and you don't get there any faster anyway. To hammer this
> point home, they show President Sloth in an elevator, holding the door
> open for the "impatient" driver who somehow managed to arrive second
> despite having been driving much faster.
>
> Another commercial shows a race car driving SLOWLY down a residential
> street. Car after car comes zooming up behind it, whips out to pass,
> and gives the driver a dirty look as he goes by. The race car driver
> says something like "I drive 200 MPH on the track, but on the street I
> always obey the speed limit. If I can slow it down, you can, too."
>
> Aside from the fact that this race car's exhaust is illegally loud and
> probably woke up the entire neighborhood, it's also not legal to drive
> that car (with its non-DOT-approved tires) on public roads. But here's
> what really annoys me as a member of AAA for many years: instead of
> spending my membership dues on sactimonious bull**** like these TV
> commercials which tell me to always obey the ridiculously underposted
> speed limits, you should be busy lobbying Sacramento, Washington, and
> elsewhere to get reasonable speed limits enacted. If speed limits were
> set according to engineering standards instead of polititcal
> fund-raising whims, voluntary compliance would be at least 85% and we
> wouldn't need these sanctimonious ads.
>
> I'm going to have to seriously rethink my membership in AAA when it

I like the VW ads where a VW Jetta gets broadsided by an SUV.
> comes up for renewal.
>
> --
> What the heck, I'll play too.
> - Dave