Originally Posted By: Whimsey
Originally Posted By: sloinker
The ad campaign that sets my teeth on edge is for some auto insurance company. The mom is thankful that her insurance sent someone to change her useless sons flat while two other loser teenagers are stranded and don't know how to change a tire. This ad just highlights that we have a generation of idiots turning into adults right now.
Sad but true
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Whimsey
I was about 20 when I stopped to help a high school girl who had dropped a wheel into a concrete cut at the edge of a construction zone and gotten a flat as well as damaged the underside of the vehicle. 3-4 people ended up helping with her car, very busy area and she was blocking traffic. She must have been cruising pretty good and she popped back out of the cut onto the road before she stopped.
It was her dad's car and she didn't want him to know anything had happened...IIRC, the spare was on a steelie and the flat was on an alloy rim, so she asked us to put the spare tire on the alloy rim so her dad wouldn't know the tire had been changed.
She also asked if we could bang out the damage a little bit so it would be less obvious.
She seemed bummed that we couldn't help with those things and I don't remember her thanking anybody...she wasn't exactly rude, I think she was thinking ahead to how her dad was going to react and so worried about it that she wasn't really with us mentally.
Originally Posted By: sloinker
The ad campaign that sets my teeth on edge is for some auto insurance company. The mom is thankful that her insurance sent someone to change her useless sons flat while two other loser teenagers are stranded and don't know how to change a tire. This ad just highlights that we have a generation of idiots turning into adults right now.
Sad but true
Whimsey
I was about 20 when I stopped to help a high school girl who had dropped a wheel into a concrete cut at the edge of a construction zone and gotten a flat as well as damaged the underside of the vehicle. 3-4 people ended up helping with her car, very busy area and she was blocking traffic. She must have been cruising pretty good and she popped back out of the cut onto the road before she stopped.
It was her dad's car and she didn't want him to know anything had happened...IIRC, the spare was on a steelie and the flat was on an alloy rim, so she asked us to put the spare tire on the alloy rim so her dad wouldn't know the tire had been changed.
She also asked if we could bang out the damage a little bit so it would be less obvious.
She seemed bummed that we couldn't help with those things and I don't remember her thanking anybody...she wasn't exactly rude, I think she was thinking ahead to how her dad was going to react and so worried about it that she wasn't really with us mentally.