Damn you, Geico plane

Living in a college town, you get used to somethings that are out of the ordinary. It’s not like the circus is in town everyday or anything, but you get to see/do/put up with things that usually aren’t a consideration in medium-sized towns.

For example, take my new arch-nemesis – the stupid Geico plane.

To be fair, the plane itself isn’t owned by Geico. It’s just pulling a banner for Geico across the sky each afternoon. I still hate it with the hot, hot heat of a thousand fiery suns.

Why do I hate it? Well, for starters it seems completely random to me that it’s just making circles around campus during the lunch hour. We’re used to seeing banner-pulling planes in the sky during football games, but somehow I feel as if this new weekday interloper is violating the sanctity of our airspace. I’m pretty sure this is just the first step towards a Tampax blimp hovering over my house someday.

It’s course around campus means that it makes a turn and buzzes past my office window about ten times each afternoon. I can’t tell you how disconcerting it is to be happily typing away and then feel the piercing eyes of Geico Caveman boring a whole in the back of your head. Even if it’s just a banner, it’s still creepy.

Who had the bright idea to make a giant ORANGE banner and fly it in circles around Texas A&M University? I don’t think everything needs to be maroon around here, but why advertise your product in a color that the vast majority of the population has a deep-breed aversion towards? Why not just throw a big ol’ cow up there and proclaim, “Bevo, Mack Brown and Satan use Geico. So should you.”

Finally, what kind of marketing scheme is this? I know they’re trying to build brand awareness, but honestly, I don’t think anyone is choosing to buy car insurance because some company flew an ugly banner around town for several weeks. If anything, it would make far less likely to choose Geico.

I hate you, Geico plane.

I do, however, approve of the Geostationary Banana Over Texas.

Lies – and the lying liars who unknowingly tell them

The Wife has decided that The Boy is going to get a flu shot on Saturday. Of course, she made this decision just a few weeks after his latest round of annual vaccinations.

He’s got a pretty big fear of needles (who in their right mind doesn’t?) and I’ve been reassuring him that he doesn’t have to worry about any more shots for a whole year. Now The Wife has thrown all that down the drain.

Best of all, she’s choosing not to warn him. We’ll just drag him down to the doctor’s office tomorrow morning and – surprise!

Moral of the story: pregnant people are mean.

Fries at the bottom of the bag

• The Boy was a firefighter for Halloween. We went to a local Halloween festival last weekend and then did the trick-or-treat thing on Wednesday night. Check out the photos by clicking here.
• The new university phone book arrived today and The Wife’s e-mail address has a typo in it. That really shouldn’t be funny, but it is.
• Speaking of The Wife, things seem to be chugging along just fine on the pregnancy front. It’s finally starting to sink in that we’re now less than two months away from the big event.
• The Dog seems to still have all of her teeth and hasn’t cost us any more money since her pricey vet visit.
• The Cat has been incredibly annoying (even for her) over the past few days. I think she senses that something’s about to change. Of course, she could just be loopy from eating The Dog’s canned food when she wasn’t looking.
• I’ve created another video for work. You can check it out by clicking here.
• I’m glad Halloween has come and gone. I’m tired of gems like Leprechaun 4: In Space and Friday the 13th Part VII hogging the airwaves each night. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is also pretty tedious to watch, but for different reasons.