On occasion, my friend Laura and I are on the same brain wave. It is usually far too advanced for Lois to follow and she just rolls her eyes (like the front seat/back seat thing – #6 on our “us” list).
Like, Lois just cannot understand how we continuously find every other line in F*inding N*emo as hysterical as we do, even on our 39th time watching it. Nor does Lois appreciate our invention of the “Floon” (making a flute out of the straw/spoon thing from a McFl*urry).
Laura and I like to think it’s because we are so smart. And it’s because we are so smart that we are able to appreciate wonderfully written advertisements as well.
For example, we both think that these two commercials are flippin’ hysterical:
#1
The best part about the Chevy commercial is that in Part II, she gets up and slams into the car again. When we are watching tv together, Laura and I will rewind this ad and watch it over and over again (ah, the magic of DVR) and laugh just as hard every time.
#2
We love the “door open” part of this commercial.
I hope Laura is reading the blog today, because I know she’ll appreciate this.
So, I had a “open door” moment this morning. It was almost disastrous.
I stopped in the post office on my walk to work from the parking garage to buy stamps. It was ass bone cold by the way.
As I was leaving the post office, my hands were completely full. I had my work bag, my lunch bag, a plastic bag with useless crap and my gloves in one hand and my D*unkin D*onuts toasted almond coffee in the other. I thought I was managing it all pretty well considering I could have definitely used one more hand.
The post office has two sets of doors. The interior sets looks IDENTICAL to the outer set of doors. However, the interior set of doors is ELECTRONIC.
Do you see where this is going?
I walked right through the first set of doors because they opened for me.
Then, I walked right into the second set of doors. Crap. WTF?
Needless to say, I did not knock myself out – and DID NOT EVEN SPILL ANY OF MY COFFEE. I did kinda sorta catch myself before I had a full force splat. But it was still not pretty.
Thank god no one saw me. Although the people around the corner in the post office probably wondered what that BANG was that was followed by a “oh, fuck.”
Jude said,
January 25, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Psst, I tagged you for a meme on my blog. xo
KJand the Kids said,
January 26, 2008 at 12:19 am
That second one is HILARIOUS !! FUNNY AS HELL !! I just laughed out loud.
I like all 3 scenes
Dee said,
January 26, 2008 at 1:47 am
Too damn funny. I had one of those moments this week as well. I ordered 5 Starbucks. 4 in a tray, one extra to carry. THEN they give me a free one. Well that put me right over the edge and splat! Right as I walk out the door. Clearly not enough hands.
ELLIE said,
January 26, 2008 at 10:51 am
those commercials crack us up too – we cannot imagine people being such dumba**es – but they crack us up…
Now – you walking into a door at the post office had me laughing so loud…because I just know that the post office has got to have cameras facing the doors for security….and now those employees are laughing their butts off…LOL
I needed the laugh – you are too much!!!
Thanks for sharing it
Peace–Ellie
Sara said,
January 26, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Erin and I love that commercial where she walks into the door. I always wonder why I’m so incredibly amused by people walking into things. I think it may have to do with my propensity for doing the same thing… Had it been me at the post office, the coffee would have been everywhere, and i would be happy that I wasn’t lying on the ground.
Rosie said,
January 26, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Dawn and I just LOVE those commericals too. I’m generally more like Lois.. don’t find near the humor in things that Dawn does. She can laugh so hard she can’t speak, move, breathe at things and I am just sitting there like ‘what on earth!’. Austin Powers is one… she dies.. just dies. I can’t stand it. But these commercials.. TOO funny!
I would have loved to have seen you walk into the door
inlocoparentis said,
January 26, 2008 at 6:43 pm
That is funny. I once got myself stuck in a revolving door on a job interview – my purse (that was the problem, the purse) got wedged. They had to call the fire department.
amy said,
January 27, 2008 at 2:29 am
hysterical story! and, i think my wife would totally get you and Laura because she LOVES those commercials too. i get a chuckle when i haven’t seen them in a while but don’t react nearly the way she does!
Stacey said,
January 27, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I have a friend like that. When we get together, everyone else thinks we’re insane. We’ve been friends since the 6th grade and have a lot of inside jokes. One time we were playing Cranium and she held out her hand in this claw-like shape and I yelled out, “The Color Purple! Whoopi Goldberg! Oprah Winfrey!” And I got the answer. Everyone said we could never be on the same team ever again.
denise said,
January 27, 2008 at 5:49 pm
I have been reading just not commenting. I am sure that you understand why
Anyway thanx for the laugh, I so needed it.
meg said,
January 27, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Yes that door open commercial is hilarious… I just love it! Glad you didn’t spill your coffee like her
Lisa said,
January 28, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Mmmmm. Love DD coffee. I’m totally laughing at Ellie’s post. I bet there were people watching you on video. Some dude probably lost $10 because your coffee didn’t spill.
I’ve hardly been by since David got here. 10 weeks already! Like the new format. For a bit I thought I was in the wrong place.
BTW, Finding Nemo rocks.
Casey said,
January 29, 2008 at 3:54 am
It’s wrong, I know but I laughed myself silly reading about you walking into the door.
I hate when that happens…and it *has* happened.
t said,
January 29, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I’m laughing so hard – that brings my memories back when our class saw our interpreter ran so fast as he was late and he thought the door was open (glass door). We were outside walking to other school nearby (RFA – hearing school as we were taking some classes out there). You know the answered – He actually ran and (am laughing so hard) he bumped into the glass door and broke his nose! LOL! (we didn’t want him to be our interpreter anyway – he was sucks!)! That commerical def. remind me of that! So HILARIOUS!!!