New World

Some of you will know our family spent March Break in Vermont. I did mean to write a blog post about it … but I didn’t. Maybe in the middle of the summer, I’ll get around to writing a blog post about our ski holiday at Jay Peak but, for now, suffice it to say we were in the U.S. and we watched some U.S. TV.

This was interesting for two reasons: 1) U.S. commercials are different from Canadian commercials, and 2) at home we PVR everything and never watch the ads, but there we had to watch the ads (or go make a hot drink while they were on).

There was this one ad, for Charles Schwab, that I saw a few times, and each time I felt like yelling at the TV – “Nailed it!”

It was like my entire experience with publishing summed up in about twenty seconds.

Here it is:

Did you guess my favourite lines?

If you guessed …

Father: (chuckling at the silliness of his son) “That’s not the way the world works.”

Son: (putting Dad quietly in his place) “Well, the world’s changing.”

… you were totally right.

Well, the world’s changing.

Love it.

Thank you for saying it.