AARP Life insurance.
Fact: Either you or your spouse needs to be over 50 to qualify.
Ad: Hubby is 45, tops. And lazier than even I because that cabinet door needs fixing, STAT! Trophy Wife isn’t over 38, but they ug her up with “granny glasses.”
There’s this Excel gum ad running right now that’s getting on my nerves. A gratingly wussy song plays as a young man goes about his day. Cute little versions of the food he eats follow him around, indicating that the food “sticks with him” and gives him bad breath. Chewing the gum allows him to leave behind the bad breath critters as he arrives at a party at a pretty young woman’s apartment.
Now, the song is the most irritating part of the ad, hands down. Something else bugs me,though. There are three little critters: a cup of coffee, an onion, and a doughnut. I get the first two as representing bad breath, but a doughnut? I’ve never heard of notorious doughnut-breath. Is there such a thing?
Carbs and sugars, left unchecked, feed the Bad Breath Bacteria. I learned that from Listerine ads. Just like I learned I need to get Old Folks insurance if I were to remarry somebody 20 years my junior. (Wife is a year older than I. She was severely pissed when AARP first tried to get her to join.)