December 26, 2007

In the Year Two Thousand...

Being the geezer that I am, I was listening to the radio earlier today. AM radio, to be exact. At the end of a Geico ad, the voiceover says:

"Call now, and we guarantee you'll talk to a real live person."

Hearing this, I immediately felt like I was living in an episode of the Jetsons or something. "A real live person? In this day and age? Why, robots have been running customer service and doing my laundry for as long as I can remember! Malarkey, I say! Be right back, I've got to charge my shoe-tier for tomorrow."

You kids and your slave robots!

Technology is scary: "Maybe by 3025, we'll have machines
that'll count this money and make it available no matter where
on the planet I am."


Note: Do not Google Image Search "Jane Jetson" with children in the room.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

2 Things:

- Malarkey is one of my favorite words. Using it also makes you a geezer.
- I thought this post was going to be about how you called Geico and talked to a real, live human being. But you went the Jetsons route. I'll take it.

katie dukes said...

i will not take it.
consider yourself removed from my rss feed AND blogueroll.