The FreeCreditReport.com Guy
There are three commercials being heavily rotated on television these days featuring a young curly haired guy and his guitar. In the first one he serenades us with his story of identity theft woe — seems “some hacker” messed him up big time and now he can’t get a nice car so he has to buy a “used subcompact” and his legs are “sticking to the seat” and his “posse’s getting laughed at.” He tells us how he should have gone to freecreditreport.com, and his life has been woe because he failed to do so. His two stoner-looking buddies are crammed into this little car with him but they don’t seem to mind the conditions. Wonder if their credit is screwed up and what they’re doing with this guy in the first place.
In the second commercial, our credit-challenged young lad is working at a seafood restaurant where apparently the manager decided he wanted this guy AND his entire “posse” to sing about their bad credit for customers. He moans about “dressing up like a pirate” and oh if only he’d joined freecreditreport.com, he wouldn’t have to “sell fish to tourists in T-shirts.” He doesn’t look like much of a pirate. He doesn’t even have a cool eyepatch or a wooden leg. The elderly folks sitting at a nearby table look like they want to clock him with an oversized granny handbag.Finally our trio of credit doom are all crammed into a small basement with a very pissed off looking girl who is doing laundry. Again, our hero is standing around doing nothing to help his situation — ooh, I mean he’s standing around warning us of the dangers of marrying a girl whose “credit was bad.” Instead of living “in a pleasant suburb” (because he and his friends look very suburban, no?) now he lives in this basement and isn’t happy about it. I have a question: why is he relying on a woman to support him, anyway? He should take care of his own credit problems and not get married in the first place. His dream wife sure doesn’t look happy to have him and his friends in the basement day in and out singing when they should all be at work. Or at the very least helping with the laundry. I’d be pissed too if I had a guy who was so lazy as to complain about his problems all day. Maybe it was their day off from the fish restaurant? Not that it is cool for her to have defaulted on her credit card, or for them to have married without having discussed financial matters first. Sheesh, it’s like they didn’t even know each other. And how would he have been able to have bought a house (with dog and yard) with his crap credit, anyway?Yesterday Lance asked me if I thought the girl in the ad looked annoyed. I said, “Yes.” He asked, “What is she annoyed about? Is it because of he laundry or because her husband went out with his friends and bought a car and now they’re hanging out in the basement doing nothing?” I said it was the latter scenario.
For those who are interested, the dude’s real name is Eric Violette and he’s a French Canadian actor. Someone on Yahoo stated that Eric is really playing the guitar but his voice is dubbed. The plot thickens!
your Origami reporter,
Momo
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