>We had a roadtrip to south Georgia this weekend. I mean, way south. >Allright, allright, hold it down, already! >This goofy Ford dealer comes on TV for a commercial. Couldn't quite catch >the name and location, but I believe it was a South Carolina dealer, and >the city may have been Bluffton(?). His son or somebody is on a backhoe. >Camera pans over the lot. Excursions, and what not. Then there is this >beautiful, shining, waxed, bright red Audi 200 on the car lot, just sitting >there peaceably. The goob on the backhoe revs the diesel up and takes a >claw at the roof of the 200!!!! While the announcer is whining, "We rip the >roof of prices . . . " The teeth on the bucket crash through the back glass >of the 200 and the operator pulls it toward him. The poor roof tries to >hold, but is crumpled in an instant and mashed up to the hood, along with >most of the interior. A 200 20v convertible. Uh, make that no convertible, >its a permanent roofless. Goob son is sitting there on the backhoe with >this crazy idiot look on his face cackling away, kinda like, "Huck, huck, >huck . . ." My mouth drops open and I start yelling for my wife to run in >from the kitchen and look at this crap. My little two year old daughter was >sitting in my lap and looked up at me, she knew I was upset. She says, "It >broken, Dadddy, he broken." I just started at the TV screen dumbfounded. >HK >This is not b.s. Poetic justice would have been done if the goober had ripped up some of the Frod Excessions by mistake |
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