Everything has a reason

Two very large errors found in commercials today.

1. Commercial states:
   • Hotel: €0,- (while showing a tent on a camping)
   • Garagist: €0,- (while showing someone who’s fixing his own motorcycle)
   • Movie: €0,- (while showing someone who’s watching a neighbours fight)
   • … other obviously free stuff
   • ending with: ING Internet Account: €0,-

   Thus: since the rest is free, but you don’t get something valuable, you’d better don’t take an ING Internet Account, since you won’t get a valuable bank account!

2. Showing a Mercedes showroom. A very expensive woman speaks to her husband: "Look, this is one of these Mercedeses you can buy very cheap before December 24. So you have the choice: OR you buy him for me at this very own moment, and thus you’re stingy, OR you buy him much more expensive AFTER December 24…" So don’t buy a Mercedes after December 24.
   It’ll be too expensive.

Overal wordt om je oren gesmeten met bonnen, punten, weet ik wat om mensen aan te zetten te kopen. Zo heb je bij GB de Happy Days kaart. En elke keer je iets koopt, krijg je een bonnetje voor extra veel punten indien je binnen de week één van de producten koopt die je eigenlijk net hebt gekocht en dus helemaal niet meer nodig hebt. Of soms krijg je “bij aankoop van minstens € 15″ evenveel punten. Zoals wij vandaag.

Met andere woorden: morgen 25 december zal ik daar voor de deur staan om mijn 15 punten te komen inwisselen. Wedden dat dit om de ene of andere reden niet zal lukken?

We got a phone call of Lares BVBA, which seems to be a Security company to ask whether they were allowed to arrange an appointment to talk about securing our house. It’s not that we do not want to be secure, but the phone call was rather direct so my father (who picked up the phone) told them he needed more time to search things out.

Now, when we’re robbed within a couple days/weeks, we at least know who’s behind it…