Girl, won't you take out the trash

The other day I was driving and I saw a garbage truck with the following on the side: Alcohol can trash your kid's brain.


Now, I didn't bother to look at who paid for the ad. I was too busy trying to write while I talked on my cell phone and steered with my knee to be bothered with that, but it was probably someone like MADD. It's really not that important who paid for it. What is important is that they're really onto something here. It's crazy to think about how long garbage trucks have just been garbage trucks. Think of what a waste (pun intended) it's been to have these trucks driving around collecting garbage all day, when all this time they could also have been used to make us buy stuff, or at least to inform us of someone's agenda. After all, if there's one thing we don't get enough of in this country, it's advertisments being shoved in our faces.

Obviously, the key to advertising in this manner is to come up with some kind of witty play on words that matches the vehicle of choice. Ads for viagra could be placed on concrete mixers as long as they said something about being rock hard. Although, it might be difficult to get private companies to go along with something that they might perceive as something that portrays them in a negative light. However, we could definitely put the ads on vehicles that the public already pays for. I'm thinking that fire engines have been grossly underused in that regard. I propose that from this point forward, all firetrucks should tell parents to teach their children about safe sex because STDs can really burn.