Friday, February 13, 2009

Direct Insanity

Before I start this one I would like to preface that I worked in a bank as a teller. I know what it is like to be in a bank environment when hostility and fear are around.
Direct TV has a commercial where a bank robbery is taking place. There are several bank robbers with masks and guns. What a scary situation. However in the midst of this pant wetting experience a man takes out his mobile phone to quickly set his DVR at home so that he doesn't miss his favorite TV show. I know what your thinking? "Oh, how funny, it's a commercial." Your right it is just a commercial, but let us put ourselves in this situation for a brief moment. Your at your local bank standing in line to make a deposit. Your thoughts are running around about the dinner you need to cook, the kids you need to pick up, and the hope that this check your depositing is not just going into your bank account to cover the overdraft fee you pretended didn't exist. All of the sudden you hear "Get on the floor" You turn to see several masked men with guns taking over the bank. Your first thought of "Oh my gosh! I'm going to die" followed by " My family, my kids , my spouse." These are not your first thoughts. Lets get real, your thinking about how you might miss "Lost" tonight and you'll never understand what the heck is going on in that show. Your thinking, "What is one missed episode of Lost anyway, I could watch every episode twice and be just as confussed as a guy who only saw the previews." Your thinking, "I wonder who gets voted off Dancing with the Stars?" So you quickly pull out your expensive phone that costs more than a months paycheck which you shouldn't have bought because you don't have any money in the bank to begin with and try to hide while remotely controlling your DVR that also is to expensive for you to own, and setting it to record a TV show that you told yourself you would stop watching! All the while trying to be undetected for fear that a bank robber would miss interpret your phone dialing as calling the police. How dare that bank robber think I'm using my phone for the good of the bank and it's money. I am trying to set my DVR to record a program I don't really like in the first place just in case this situation gets out of control and I don't make it home on time. What a technology.

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