# Progressive Insurance Lady **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 25, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316 "2010-04-25T18:40:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/1 "2010-04-25T18:40:07Z")
Sure you have have great ads, but what happens when I file a claim? You ignore what I wrote down and gave me $185 instead of $100 for my luggage box, add in money for an after-market part I forgot, and then give me a fair market value for my scooter. So why am I pitting her? She won’t answer any of my emails asking her out. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/2 "2010-04-25T18:47:37Z")
Dude, she’s married. Why is this in the pit? ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/3 "2010-04-25T19:03:24Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Dude, she’s married. > Why is this in the pit? I’m bored. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/4 "2010-04-25T19:24:18Z")
This won’t end well. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/5 "2010-04-25T19:29:41Z")
You think those ads are _great_? I’d classify them somewhere between inane and moderately annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/6 "2010-04-25T19:29:43Z")
She _is_ insufferably cute, isn’t she? Oh wait—this is a Pit thread—I’m required to say something derogatory about her, aren’t I? Hmmm…I’m thinking…no can do. Oh well, while we’re on the subject of women who have rejected our electronic sexual advances, I pit YOU, Sandra Bullock. Not once have you ever answered any of my e-mails professing my undying lust for you. I understood your reticence when you were married to Biker Boy, but c’mon—you’re single now (or soon to be, anyway) and on the rebound! What’s a poor Armenian boy gotta do? ---
**Author:** ![HISSNLISSN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed8c4c/32.png) [@HISSNLISSN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HISSNLISSN)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/7 "2010-04-25T19:48:27Z")
Anyone who finds the Progressive Insurance spokeswoman attractive has some serious mom issues. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/8 "2010-04-25T19:55:14Z")
> [@HISSNLISSN](#): > > Anyone who finds the Progressive Insurance spokeswoman attractive has some serious mom issues. She’s much, much younger than my mom. She just looks as if she’s secretly hiding a good deal of kink. Starting with whatever she’s wearing under that faux nurses outfit thing. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/9 "2010-04-25T20:11:04Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Starting with whatever she’s wearing under that faux nurses outfit thing. I’ll be in my bunk. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/10 "2010-04-25T20:15:35Z")
Erin, of Esurance is so much hotter. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/11 "2010-04-25T20:22:22Z")
Always interesting to find a human face behind marketing campaigns: [Actress-comedian Stephanie Courtney finds her niche with insurance commercials](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040704554.html) (Washington Post link) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/12 "2010-04-25T20:29:55Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Erin, of Esurance is so much hotter. Problem with Erin (beyond the fact that she is a cartoon character) is that the art style that produced [her](http://betiku.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Erin+Esurance.jpg) is now also producing a bunch of characters on [6Teen.](http://www.freewebs.com/blackera57/6teen000.gif) Hotness goes away; creepiness oozes in. P.S. I do find Progressive Insurance lady to be quite appealing. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/13 "2010-04-25T20:31:17Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > Sure you have have great ads, but what happens when I file a claim? You ignore what I wrote down and gave me $185 instead of $100 for my luggage box, add in money for an after-market part I forgot, and then give me a fair market value for my scooter. So why am I pitting her? She won’t answer any of my emails asking her out. Based on the Starving Artist Straight Dope System of Debate Scoring ™, I need to first say that this is nonsense. Responding to it is not meant to give it substance. Is it okay if I ask her out? I wanted to check with you first. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/14 "2010-04-25T20:43:17Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Erin, of Esurance is so much hotter. I’m fairly sure that Erin of Esurance lacks appropriate apertures for the slacking of your lust, what with being two-dimensional & all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/15 "2010-04-25T20:50:15Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’m fairly sure that Erin of Esurance lacks appropriate apertures for the slacking of your lust, what with being two-dimensional & all. 🙂 Oh, I don’t know… are you certain that all Dopers are 3D humans? :dubious: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/16 "2010-04-25T20:50:58Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > Based on the Starving Artist Straight Dope System of Debate Scoring ™, I need to first say that this is nonsense. Responding to it is not meant to give it substance. > > Is it okay if I ask her out? I wanted to check with you first. I think that as brethren in SDMB we can all share. I get the feeling that would be OK with her as well. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Rosetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Green\_Rosetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Rosetta)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/17 "2010-04-25T21:39:59Z")
I met her once, at an improv festival. She was nice, and good at improv, and if I hadn’t been expecting to see her, I would have never looked twice and thought, “It’s Flo!” That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/18 "2010-04-25T22:36:06Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Dude, she’s married. > Why is this in the pit? > [@DanBlather](#): > > I’m bored. In an effort to keep this in the pit, I will say that **DanBlather** is a person who starts lame pit threads, and that my outrage flickers, like the flame from a lighter, low on fuel, held aloft in the wind. And not even a Bic. One of those cheap, see-thru kind, like you get 20 for a buck at the Discount Store. So there. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/19 "2010-04-25T22:52:47Z")
You need to contact claims instead of customer service. I’ll transfer you. In case you get connected, the correct number is M-P-S-I-M-S. **Gfaptor** Senior Customer Care Faptor ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316/20 "2010-04-25T23:22:31Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > In an effort to keep this in the pit, I will say that **DanBlather** is a person who starts lame pit threads, and that my outrage flickers, like the flame from a lighter, low on fuel, held aloft in the wind. And not even a Bic. One of those cheap, see-thru kind, like you get 20 for a buck at the Discount Store. So there. Dude, that was harsh, even for Pit standards. And maybe now that this is in MPISMS a mod should delete it so as not to offend anyone. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/progressive-insurance-lady/537316.md?page=2)