the newest friendly’s commercial meant to emotionally move us enough to want ice cream and nasty quesadillas features a teenage girl who’s upset because her first boyfriend dumped her for, i don’t know, maybe his seventeenth girlfriend.
her big brother the hero, clad in his vinyl varsity football jacket, somehow manages to recognize her obvious despair: “let’s go to friendly’s.”
touching, eh? but what about real life?
of course aaron is my hero – i just don’t think taking me out for a gritty lunch would have been his solution. back in the day, if he had found me crying on the couch, it would have been more like:
“don’t worry. we rented ‘friday the 13th part 5.’ and ‘shriek of the mutilated.’ it has a yeti in it.”
maybe it’s a brother’s duty to always know what to say.
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