And just a piece of advice: You don’t mess with Holly’s shopping life.
Holly first noticed it at the gas station.
Is Holly complaining about the high price of gas?
Nope.
This is Holly’s blog!
There are no perkiness-deflating discussions of world peace, global warming, religion or gas prices here.
Holly is disturbed by a disturbing trend at the gas station that has nothing to do with the price of gas.
In fact, Holly thinks the gas stations should pay her for enduring this disturbing trend:
Why is the gas pump yelling at Holly?
Holly gets out of the car to fill up her minivan…
…and all of a sudden she is starring in a commercial for that very gas station.
*cue VERY LOUD audio*
*cue VERY LOUD video (optional)*
Holly doesn’t like to complain, but sometimes the audio and the video just shout at each other and Holly steps out of the fray until they are done.
If Holly were listening, she might learn that the gas station only serves the highest quality gas.
If Holly were listening, she might learn that inside the station there are snacks of the highest quality.
If the gas station were listening, they might offer to babysit 3 minivan strapped-in children because Holly is desperate for snacks of any quality.
Holly actually started avoiding the screaming gas stations because quite honestly all she wants to do is fill up her car and pay at the pump. She has little time to referee the audio vs. video fight.
Then Holly had to go get some face soap at a local drugstore. She was walking down the face soap aisle when she nearly had heart failure because of this:
The face soap AISLE began screaming at Holly to try this new product that would make her even more desirable than she already is.
At least that is what Holly assumed it was saying since she ran in terror from the aisle without her face cream.
And then Holly went shopping at the grocery store:
Not only did the frozen food section start screaming at her, but it also spit coupons in her general direction.
Holly doesn’t mind the occasional coupon, but the spitting has to stop.
This is the part where Holly offers advice to companies that are screaming at her while shopping:
Stop screaming at me!
Do I have to put my hands over my ears and say, “La. La. La.” outside the house too?
Because my arms are really tired.
Tune in next Tuesday when Holly offers advice to government…
I’m sorry you had to suffer through that. I’m glad that nothing has started screaming at me yet.
About the gas prices, lower them and take out the stupid video, audio screaming thing. Glad that’s what they buy with their profits!
Holly brilliantly illustrated exactly what I’m thinking.
HA HA HA !! that is so funny.. poor Holly.. Everyone yells at her all the time and if that s not bad enough she has to find quiet time where people are suppose to be really loud and yell.. There is just something wrong with that..
Pretty soon, they will be offering to pay us to put adds on our foreheads.
Oh yea. The gas station that does this here in Minnesota plays a local WEATHER blurb. Loud enough with enough “severe storms coming” to frighten the already nervous enough about weather Teenager sitting in the front seat saying, “What’s he say? What’s coming? Are we having a tornado?” As if I need more of that aggrevation.
I have not been harrassed yet by talking gas pumps. But I can’t stand those things that spit out the coupons. Very annoying!
I’ll be tuning on on Tuesday to see what advice you have for our government.
LOL -that’s bad but I love your illustrations … have you seen any blogs with the audio ads yet ?
I hear ya, Sistah! And how ’bout them cows that MOOOO at you when you open the glass door to grab your six gallons of milk for the week? Is that insulting, or what? (When the cows start mooing in the ice cream section, I’m writing some Dairy Dude a sharp-toned letter, for sure.)
Lurker Delurking because this made me laugh out loud and I REALLY needed it this morning, thanks!
Heehee! I know the gas station you are talking about and I always leave the car radio on there–my kids are always asking ‘who’s there’
‘highest quality snacks inside the gas station store’–that just proves gas voice is a LIAR 😉