A billboard in Chattanooga has people doing double takes. You have to look twice before you see which finger the woman is giving you -her ring finger. The caption reads, "She's tired of waiting." The ad is for a local jeweler.
http://www.wrcbtv.com/global/story.asp?s=11574177 (with video) -via Simply Left Behind
"If you look at it twice you ought to get a chuckle," said Barry Schenck of M.M. Schenck Jeweler, "that's what we are hoping for."
Schenck says it's not the first time he's paid to post more than a dozen billboards before Christmas, but this latest stunt is getting feedback.
"It's sort of putting a lot of pressure on young men to ask their girlfriends to marry them," said Carolyn Miller of Chattanooga.
Critics say Schenck's ploy is in bad taste, but Schenck stands behind the scheme. He says the woman in the picture is no actress.
"She is single, she does have a boyfriend, and she is waiting," said Schenck.
http://www.wrcbtv.com/global/story.asp?s=11574177 (with video) -via Simply Left Behind
“She is single, she does have a boyfriend, and she is waiting,”
Don't the first two points contradict themselves? Or is she just that desperate to get a ring on her finger.
I know, I know, jewelers have to make a living and this weird cultural obsession with marriage is a good way to do that, but personally, I don't buy into it.
Also, I don't like diamonds.
If the middle finger is offensive, then shouldn't this picture of the ring finger be considered offensive as well, since it conveys the same impression and reaction?
It's like those commercials where they bleeped out the word "frozen", so it sounded like they were bleeping something more offensive (that began with "f").