Cute Advertising or Dangerous Distraction?
Thomas Hawk posted a photo to Flickr that he took of a man driving around with a Starbucks ™ coffee cup affixed to the roof of his car. That’s right, not forgotten on the roof, put there, on purpose. The point is to get people to notice it, and when they try to tell him the error of his ways, he simply says “Happy Holidays from Starbucks”.
Now, I suppose this is a clever marketing tactic. But I can’t help feeling that it borders on being dangerously distracting. Maybe I’m getting curmudgeonly in my old age (is that even a word?!), but the idea that someone is driving around doing something that will no doubt attract more attention than it deserves where people are supposed to be driving makes me a bit nervous. On the other hand, I love that billboard on my way to work where the woman is showing all that cleavage… oh, never mind.
December 10th, 2005 at
hey i was told you have a website! That is awesome that you have kids now, I am so proud of you!!!! The one in the picture is so cute. I have a two year old too now. He got my smile, and my attitude!!! I am sorry if you find this weird that I am writing to you, I guess some things in the past need not to be forgotten. Don’t think of me as your exgirlfriends sister, think of me as a friend from the past. If you decide to write back to me email me at dbrader@telus.net, if you don’t I will completely understand. Matt and I got engaged in Cuba in April 2003. We are not married yet (too many things on the go) Then our son was born Jan 2004, I guess you could call him our Cuban souvenier!. Anyway it is great to see you have everything that you always wanted and once again congratulations!!! Debbie