marketing bastards

I didn't plan to have three posts this evening. But my son spent his entire bathtime this evening reciting word for word a Bowflex commercial.

"Hey Mom. Did you know there is this thing on t.v. that has four things that will let you totally resculpt and define your body?"

"All it takes is just twenty minutes a day to see immediate results."

"You should buy it Mom. It's just fourteen dollars a month!"

I wish there was a parental control for commercial brainwashing. Daniel is particularly susceptible to this sort of ploy. So I explained it to him like this:

"I hate to break it to you, bud, but that is a clever marketing ploy. Brace yourself, but not everything you see on t.v. is true. The people who sell that stuff want it to be as attractive as possible to people so they will spend their money on it."

Daniel's response: "So they can get rich.... (throws hands up in the air) I've heard all about that before (in disgust)."

That's my eighty year old jaded businessman trapped in a second graders body!