Thursday, May 03, 2007

Maybe it's just me

Maybe it's just me but, the ad on TV about the kid who has to bring 5 dozen cupcakes to school the next day, mom says "oh,no, what will we do?" (as if), and the kid chimes in "I'll help!" (as if x infinity). They proceed to make said treats, using Bounty Paper Towels to clean up as they go, because, they are, after all, the quicker picker upper (not to be confused with coffee and doghnuts or redbull and kahlua. It is, as ads go, pretty innocuous, but there is one thing that bugs me, enough to write to P&G and tell them, because someone on their ad staff is either asleep at the wheel or has not had kids in school for, say, 20 + years; everyone knows that you can't bring homemade treats to school. If you attempt to you will be tackled at the door, hogtied, said treats will be surrounded by a negative pressure, bombproof, germ proof, leak proof, hazmat enclosure and FEMA/DEA/ATF/CDC/FDA and the NIH will be brought in to contain the menace. Really. They must be store bought, mass produced, safety packaged, appropriately supervised. You never know when a stray peanut or perhaps a hair might get into a treat and cause the school to be sued for everything their worth, seeing as how they are so strapped as it is, what with the parents buying $100-$200 worth of school supplies every year, our measly contributions not amounting to a hill o'beans, could be completely gutted by one bad brownie. Of course, I see down the road, where due to the dietary Nazi's who are banning transfats at an unprecedented rate, because, you know we just can't be allowed to ruin our health as we see fit, we must be HELPED, we can't be trusted you know, store bought goodies are going to be just as verbooten. It'sa coming, just you wait and see. Pretty soon, the poor little boogers will only be able to snack on carrot sticks and apple slices, after they have been xrayed, decontaminated, checked for ecoli, salmonella and nits. *sigh*.
Anyway, I needed to let them know that, because, well, it just bugs me.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

while i heard this is done in some schools - it's not done in all - we still send in home made treats.

so there are still people who have kids who this commercial DOES NOT BUG them

Monday, May 07, 2007 4:14:00 PM  
Blogger madmom said...

Good, I thought this entire country had gone nuts, it's ok to hand out condoms to 6th graders but don't bake them cookies.

Monday, May 07, 2007 5:26:00 PM  

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