Here's a little bit of a funny take on communication technology for you this fine Friday Funny Day. The following are tv commercials for Verizon and Motorolla's Droid Razr. Notice the stark contrast in how mother/daughter and father/son react to graduation and moving away. Here is the original Mother/Daughter commercial. Later on, Verizon got some complaints and changed the commercial so that it didn't need subtitles. I'm not sure what the complaint was or why the change, but in my humble opinion, the original was much funnier. Here is the Father/Son commercial, also with subtitles. Nobody complained there. What do you think of the commercials? Why do you think the original Mother's Day commercial was changed? Why do you think the...
Today is my son's 13th birthday and I had planned to dispense with my usual discussion of communication to share a little bit about him with my readers. Here's part of what I had planned to share. This is a very fuzzy picture of him winning the Youth Cart Racing League over at K1 Racing. He holds the undefeated title of fastest lap ever at that location in all the years they have been open. This includes some professional race car drivers! I'd already shared about my daughter's recent college graduation so I thought I'd give equal time to my son. I had planned to share my son's incredible sense of humor and how he had inspired some of my latest...
Mother's Day is a time I look back. Each year as a mom brings me unique blessings I want to savor. Life will never again be as it is now. I want to take the time to remember and cherish it.
This picture was taken several years ago. A lot has changed since then. We don't even live in the same state as we did then. My dd is all grown up now and going into her Junior year at college. My son is almost my height. As my father always says, "Tempus certainly does fugit" around here!
Happy Mother's Day to each of you!
So the other day my dd emails me to tell me her cell phone died. Great! She's 1800 miles away at college with a dorm phone that doesn't call out and her brand new cell phone dies. The good news? It's still under warranty. The bad news? I can't get Verizon to tell me what I REALLY need to do to take advantage of it! Communication: It's what customer service is made of! Yeah...so I'm on the phone to Verizon when they tell me to have my dd look up a Verizon store in her area and go there to see if they can repair it. If they can't, they will tell her what to do. Sounds simple enough, right? ...
