Right now I'm watching the Superbowl with my in-laws. One of the Budweiser commercials shows a guy on the dance floor doing hand motions to another guy to indicate he's the designated driver.
While the guy on the dance floor is trying to communicate, the other people mistake his gestures for dance moves and they start to mimic him. The next thing you know, all these people are doing "designated driver" hand motions.
It's certainly not the most memorable commercial, but I got to thinking... you know we're an intellectually deficient nation when we need the makers of beer to sell us on the idea of not drinking and driving.
Are we really that stupid?
I'm with Budweiser on this one. Unfortunately, we're really that stupid.
Even worse is all of those fine-print notices: "Don't drink and drive" and "Drive responsibly" or "Stunts performed by licensed stunt driver... do not attempt."
1) Maybe people really ARE this stupid?
2) More likely, these are merely butt-covering legal disclaimers by companies WORRIED about stupid/greedy people doing stupid things and then suing ("Gee, they advertised beer, I bought some, I drank and drove and it's THEIR FAULT!")
I'd say "Only in America"... but I fear greatly that the rest of the world is slowly catching up to our level of idiocy.
Posted by: Adam | 20 February 2005 at 04:37 PM