I think I saw this commercial last night on TV, but I was more than half asleep, so am not sure I got it right. A man is driving his car and his passenger keeps telling the silent driver how much he likes "ahmonds." He keeps repeating the name of the nut over and over again. Finally, the picture shows him being booted out of the car: as the car is moving away, the driver yells out---"It's ALmonds!"
I can relate. I harbored the same impulse for about a dozen years when I drove a fellow worker to our annual conference in Syracuse. The drive took us about 3 hours, and she, in a rather self-satisfied manner, displayed the conditions of obsessive-compulsive disorder. When she wasn't engaged in actual conversation, she would talk to herself: "That folder goes here. I'm going to put my smaller purse into my larger totebag. I'll charge my phone when I get to the hotel. I 'll check on my daughter later." Several hours of memos to self. She was a very nice person, as was I , so I knew I would never kick her out of a moving car. But the thought did cross my mind.
*****I saw the ad again, when I was more awake. That is, my eyes were open this time. The person ejected from the car was the driver, who couldn't take it anymore, not the annoying passenger. I suspect an edit somewhere along the line---no one can show violence toward another in these hypersensitive times.
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