Friday, March 12, 2010

False Advertising


We were at a dead stop, stuck in mid-morning freeway traffic anyway, so why not?

I pulled up alongside him and motioned he roll down his window. When he did, I asked him his name.


"Bill," he replied.


"Last name?" I asked.

"Smith," he offered.


"Ever go by 'William'?" I queried.

"Nope."

I thanked him kindly and drove off, barely going more than four miles an hour in the miasma of cars.


Upon my arrival home later that evening, I looked up "Pasadena Ford" on-line. Nowhere on the site did I see where Bill Smith was number one.


His license plate frame "I'm #1 at PasadenaFord.Com" was blatent false advertising, I decided .....

................... Ruprecht ( STOP )