I don't watch a lot of TV, but I do watch enough to find a couple of commercials very annoying. In case you're wondering, I don't have cable, so, although I can access Netflix, most of the time I'm watching free TV, generally CBS, ABC and NBC which means I am exposed to commercials. I can generally tune them out but, as I said there are two that I find really annoying. First, any commercial by Fred Grote. I will never buy a car from that man because I really dislike being shouted at. I automatically mute his commercials when they come on.
The other one is a commercial for Swiss Village, which I presume is a retirement community. What bothers me about this commercial is the assumption it makes. It starts with a sweet homemaker type lady, wearing an apron no less, asking her husband, as he sits down to dinner, what he did at Swiss Village that day. He replys to this question (after flashbacks of a day full of apparently wonderful activities) "Nothing." with a sappy smile, and she smiles back at him as if nothing could give her greater pleasure than the fact that he had a nice day while she was, evidently, cooking and cleaning. What's wrong with this picture??? Where is her blissful retirement?
I can only hope she actually spent the day sipping wine and reading a good book, and the dinner she's serving him is from "Waiter on the Way."
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