What is the deal with those commercials you see on late night TV for the crazy crap you can get for your cell phone?  You pay a monthly fee to get jokes text-messaged to you or to download some stupid ring-tone or wallpaper.  It’s like getting junk mail except you’re having it sent to your cell phone and you’re paying a fee to do it.  Who the hell would do that?

Salesperson:  “Our email service comes with a built-in spam filter to stop all junk messages from getting to you.”

Customer:  “Awww, man.  How much extra do I have to pay to get that taken off?”

It’s shocking to me that there are people out there willing to sign up for this, let alone enough people to warrant advertising on television.  I suspect the whole thing might be a government-run study on idiocy.  Anybody who would pay money to have a clown dancing on their cell phone or have it make frog noises should be legally recognized as having some sort of mental deficiency.

Person1:  “Hey, you can’t park there.  That’s a handicap spot. I--”

Phone:  *ribbit*

Person1:  “…Did your phone just ribbit?”

Person2:  “Yeah, I paid good money for that.”

Person1:  “Yikes...  I think I understand now.”

Person2:  “Yeah, the doctor said that I have to park up front or else I might get lost on my way into the store.”

Just another way to identify the stupids.

-FG

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