June 5th, 2008 @ 10:27 am
Cars and Commercials
I went to get my car inspected this morning and sat in the waiting room at Dorschel while they made sure it was safe and what not. They had complimentary coffee, which I was a fan of. They also have what appeared to be a full cafe selling breakfast foods like bagels, english muffins, juice / milk / cappuccino / etc, and I think they even had eggs. Thats kinda cool, kills 2 birds with 1 stone, breakfast and get your car worked on.
I may have bitched in the past about Dorschel in the past, but I think my main problem comes from the sales group. The service department, especially Andy Honan, are awesome and I haven’t had any real problems with them, or at least any that were their fault (see sales department).
While I sat there and playing solitaire and iming on my phone I kept looking up @ the TV they had playing CNN. What struck me the most was the kind of commercials they had. I watch TV in the evening, and I honestly don’t watch too much CNN, so I don’t know which criteria created the market for the commercials, but they were some strange commercials none the less. Nortel had a commercial about their 40/100Gbps fiber optic networking technologies. I think 40Gb connections are badass, but I don’t really think of that as something you advertise during a CNN show. But then, you think about it more, and you realize that important people watch CNN, important people have money, and important people tell other people to buy things with the money they control.
There were also some strange commercials for some website that lets people rate / comment on local businesses and services so that you can make sure you get a good plumber and stuff.
I didn’t see one today, but I always get confused when I see a commercial for plastic. Plastics make lots of things possible, I learned that from the TV; but why we need to be told that plastics are good, and who is really changing their opinion about plastics because of the commercials about what plastics “make possible.” Besides people changing their minds about plastic, how do the plastic companies benefit monetarily from convincing people that plastics are a good thing? Is there just a PLASTIC stock you can invest in?
