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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Gets a Giggle Everytime

The commercial for Citi credit card gets me laughing everytime it comes on! Picture a generously weighted African-American man in a typical gym wearing an oversized smoky blue sweatsuit standing on a scale with earphones resting around his neck. He's looking at the scale as it reads 249 pounds, he gets off the scale, puts on his headphones and with a determined grin, he scampers a quick circle around the adjacent workout machines jiggling and scrambling as fast as he can. He stops to pause, takes a satisfied breath, removes his headphones, then he gets back on that same scale. His face drops as he realizes that quick jaunt didn't make a difference in his weight, and then he irritably taps the side of the scale as if it is broken. I must've seen that commercial 25 times, and it makes me laugh and giggle just as hard as the first time I saw it. Hee hee.