Every day, more and more, I don't get it
[Posted by Dave Haber on Friday, 06/25/10 7:42 pm] [Full Blog] [Tweet This]There is currently a commercial running on TV for Progressive Insurance that, I'm sorry, I just don't get.
In the commercial, two young men come into the fantasy Progressive Insurance store and one tells Flo, the Progressive lady, that money is tight and he needs to save money on his car insurance.
Flo, of course, shows the guy how much money he can save by switching to Progressive, and the guy says, "Oh, good. I can buy my watch back." To which his friend replies, "What, this watch? Not for sale." Flo says, "Oh, that's cold."
I don't know about you, but I don't think it's cold at all.
If I had a friend who was in financial trouble, and I helped him out by buying his nice watch, I would consider the sale final. The friend could have just asked for a loan, but he didn't, it wasn't the deal we made. If he gets the watch back, what do I get? It's unfair to me for him to assume he could just have the watch back whenever he can afford to buy it back.
When I was a kid, this kind of behavior used to be discouraged, and was called being an "Indian giver". That term is politically incorrect these days, but I guess the behavior no longer is.
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