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 have never been to a gas station where the pump talks to me. I don’t think I want to after hearing this.
Because I have never been to a gas station (or seen one for that matter) that screams at me, and that the closest Ikea store is about 4 hours away, does that mean I live in the boonies? 🙂
Oh I’ve been lucky to have only run into this once…but it is SO.ANNOYING! Ugh. You’re right…all companies should stop doing that…immediately.
We are TV free – have been for… um… six years. So all of that is so loud and so distracting for us. We turn off TVs at doctor’s offices that just yell at us. I shop a tiny organic market to avoid all the noise and flashing lights. It’s amazing how sensitive I am to it when other people just hum along.
Once again, you are my hero for your active voice in this issue. Someone said once that if Snow White woke from her 100 yr nap, the noise of modern civilization would make her mad. I feel like that sometimes.
Amen to that!
Stinkin’ hilarious!
Here we have signs outside of the subway that advertise. IN the STREET!!!!!! I just want some quiet!Is that too much to ask?
Is THIS what you guys were talking about at the party yesterday in the cabana? I was trying to figure out what advertising talk was going on, but I missed too much of it for it to make sense!
It’s official.
Holly’s blog is Soliloquy’s favorite blog to read.
I know, I know…it seems that just when we all get serious about resisting superfluous though high quality snacks and face cream, the manufacturers just get louder and more aggressive which actually bolsters our resistance rather making us more interested in face cream and snacks. It’s like the opposite of successful marketing with noise pollution to boot.
it’s really all to stressful. hate hate hate those talking things.