Maybe it’s because I’m sitting at home with what I’m sure is bronchitis (hi-ho, hi-ho it’s off to the doctor’s office I go….this afternoon); or maybe it’s my low tolerance for stupid advertisements, but I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at a commercial that I just saw a moment ago.
Here’s the scene:
A woman sits, rocking a baby. Her husband walks in. “Is she asleep?” her husband asks. “Yes, she just fell asleep a few minutes ago,” (or something) says the wife. “Why are you up, it’s 2 am?” she asks. (Uh, because Dads are SUPPOSED to get up too, you stupid chit?) “Because it’s 2 am on Christmas morning, and our first Christmas as a family,” the Dad says while pulling out some crappy necklace.
AAAAAAAH!
“It’s our first Christmas as a family!”
Since when did children=family?
Does not having children mean that I don’t have a family?
D and I are a family. My parents and sister and I are a family. D and his parents are a family.
I know I’m overreacting, but to ME, you can have a perfectly fine family without children.
Don’t get me wrong, obviously (for those of you who know what I do), I LOVE children. I’m going in sick so that I can get a “surprise” from my Pre-K kids today. (Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure I’m not contagious and they’re the ones that gave it to me in the first place…sharing germs is inevitable in Pre-K.) I spend more time there then I’m actually required to. Why? Because I love it and I love them.
I can’t wait to have children of my own….someday. Not today. I’m not even done with school yet…and I can’t even keep my apartment clean and go to school at the same time, so this is not the best time to be responsible for a tiny little person. But someday. In a few years. My biological clock isn’t exactly keeping me awake at night if you know what I mean.
Oh well, you can’t make everyone happy with the same commercial, but I still think that commercial was on the far side of stupid.
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Well technically, you don’t know that it wasn’t the child that made them the family. Maybe they met some night at a bar, had a few too many drinks, she went home with him or he went home with her…
Then a month later she finds out she’s pregnant. She doesn’t have his number cause she was the one to give him hers, and he never called of course. So she went back to the bar every night, stalking him in hopes that he’d show up. He does. She goes up to him, he’s all smooth. “Sorry I didn’t call,” he says. “I lost my cell. Got a new one…” But he has the same damn cell phone as before. She doesn’t care. She tells him she’s pregnant, it’s his, she’s keeping it.
So he’s clearly taken aback. Freaking out. Decides that they should try to make it work. Acting all sweet. They have a shotgun wedding at the courthouse. She’s already showing. The judge shakes her head, but they’re married.
Now it’s Christmas. He gets her that stupid necklace. Tells her it’s cause it’s their first Christmas together as a family, cause he saw some stupid commercial once and that’s what you do for holidays.
You should be wishing them luck!