Why I Love The Liberty Mutual Commercial

Today’s Tuesday Tirade is dedicated to the Liberty Mutual Commercial called “Responsibility: What’s Your Policy?”

This is by far the best commercial I’ve seen in a long time. The ad originally aired a few months ago and uses the concept of pay-it-forward (minus the annoying child actor, Hayley Joel Osment). I’ve watched this a gazillion times, but before I go on, take a look for yourself:

If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, then put two fingers to the inside of your wrist and check your pulse. There are a myriad of reasons why I love this commercial, including:

1) The song chosen to play in the background is perfect. Hem…go check ‘em out at iTunes.

2) I get a little misty eyed every time I watch it…and it’s a TV commerical. The last time I got emotional over a TV ad was a Folger’s commercial in the late ’80s. (C’mon…you know they had some real tearjerkers…)

3) I’ve had to deal with some real as*holes lately, including the mean cashier at Target, the rude driver that cut me off on my way to work this morning, and the waitress that gave me serious ‘tude just because I asked for my salad dressing on the side. This commercial reminds me that there are actually decent people in the world (or at least in TV Land), and that doing the right thing can be infectious.

Awwww, now I’m all warm and fuzzy inside. Except when I think about that guy who cut me off this morning in traffic.

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE…and you deserve a big, fat….

It’s Not You, 2006…It’s Me.

Yesterday I had one of those days when NOTHING was going right. I don’t want to bore you with the details, but for all you ladies reading…among everything else….my hairdryer broke. Yes, that small appliance that you take for granted every day until a night when you need to look stunningly beautiful and it goes and dies on you.

As a result, I went out on the town for New Year’s Eve looking somewhat like Bridget Jones after her encounter with a convertible car:

Men, for those of you rolling your eyes and yawning at this entry, let me put it in context for you so you really understand what I’m talking about. It’s like your flatscreen, HDTV breaking. Yeah, I know – bad right????

And so sums up my relationship with 2006. Ohhh, ‘06, you really kicked my ass this year. But I’m a firm believer that whatever doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger…so in that vein, 2006 -I gotta hand it to you, you really challenged me. And with that, I think it’s time we go our seperate ways. Yes, 2006, I’m breaking up with you so I can go galavant with my new BFF, 2007. I hope we can still be friends.

(That’s obviously a picture of 2007 and me walking down a country road, holding hands and smiling. If you’re wondering, 2007 is the one in the pink jumpsuit.)