Here we have a wonderfully realistic scenario where some guy
asks to go before someone else, and then the line-skipping guy gets awarded a check for 50,000 free dollars
for being the store’s one millionth customer (Hooray!). Um, okay, so this isn’t all that
realistic, huh? Because generally the one millionth customer doesn’t get a
check for $50,000, but rather, they might get a gift certificate (if they’re
lucky). But the guy who wins the money: he’s going to get hit up for cash by
everyone he’s ever met, plus he’ll probably lose most of it in taxes anyway,
and he will most likely forget that, spend it all, and then get a tax audit
which reveals years of tax cheats and sends him to prison, and all because he
cut in line (and it would serve him right, too! That other guy clearly deserved
all that negative curse stuff that always apparently accompanies winning the lottery! Plus, the other guy was being set-up by the police so they could finally catch him for all his crimes of murder and extortion and stuff, and this selfish jerk ruined it all and let this vicious criminal get away yet again by being so inconsiderate and cutting in line! {Could he have been this malefactor’s partner in crime, intentionally inserting himself as the monkey wrench into these carefully-planned machinations of the law, foiling the police’s sting operation?} So you know the prosecutor is going to nail him for something just to get revenge for him ruining all their years of hard work and careful planning to catch that other vicious criminal guy, clearly one of America’s Most Wanted if ever there was one!):
that’s what you get for being rude, jerk! That guy only had two items anyway,
so only a rude jerk would ask to skip ahead of him! And this is, of course, why
it’s such an unbelievable scenario!
Oh, and guess what else! Because Ally Bank set up all the cameras and stuff to film this commercial, it clued in that vicious criminal guy, and that's why he let the other guy go ahead of him in the first place: because he suspected something was up (!!), and so that's why he also acts all disappointed when the other guy gets the check: so that nobody would suspect that they have grabbed the wrong guy! And so this horrible violent felon escapes once again from the long arm of the law, and all because of Ally Bank's attempt at advertising propaganda. Well, shame on them! Now he'll commit more and yet more heinous crimes, and it will be their fault! (Oh, the humanity.)
Generally speaking people only jump ahead in line if someone ahead of them has lots of stuff, and they only have one or two items. I pretty much always offer for people to go ahead of me when they only have a couple of items, and I have a lot, because after all, that’s only polite. But you see, that real life scenario would never work to prove Ally’s propaganda, um, I mean, point here, so they just stretch the truth. Or maybe this guy was looking through his wallet for something and taking forever, and that’s why the guy asks if he can go ahead of him? Then that’s this slowpoke’s own fault! Unless Ally Bank is saying that everyone should always have to wait forever in lines behind slow people, just like at the bank! (Like the old Bugs Bunny cartoons where an old lady always manages to get in front of him to count out thousands of pennies: “One, two, three, four…”)
Generally speaking people only jump ahead in line if someone ahead of them has lots of stuff, and they only have one or two items. I pretty much always offer for people to go ahead of me when they only have a couple of items, and I have a lot, because after all, that’s only polite. But you see, that real life scenario would never work to prove Ally’s propaganda, um, I mean, point here, so they just stretch the truth. Or maybe this guy was looking through his wallet for something and taking forever, and that’s why the guy asks if he can go ahead of him? Then that’s this slowpoke’s own fault! Unless Ally Bank is saying that everyone should always have to wait forever in lines behind slow people, just like at the bank! (Like the old Bugs Bunny cartoons where an old lady always manages to get in front of him to count out thousands of pennies: “One, two, three, four…”)
But what do you expect from Ally Bank anyway? They used to
be GMAC, and after a HUGE government bailout ($16.3 Billion, over a few short
years, according to Wikipedia), they re-branded themselves (with approval from
the US government, who handed them so much of our tax money) as Ally Bank,
hoping that nobody would notice. And you know what? I never knew it until they
made this silly bull$#!† ad scenario, and then I got curious. So when it comes to advertising, stick to true stuff
that makes you look good, and forget the shyster stuff, and maybe we’ll trust
you, perhaps to our own detriment. (Just some free advice to banks, even though
nothing is free from them!)
Here’s the cash collecting (& cheating) commercial:
